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Unleash your potential with Sage legal accounting software for solicitors and legal practices

Leverage powerful online legal accounting software to get real-time visibility into your finances, simplify your processes to maximise profitability, and capture more billable hours accurately without the guesswork.

Forecast cash flow confidently

Get insights and consolidate multiple entities in real-time to plan accurate cash flow forecasts.

Automate and simplify processes

Save time with streamlined workflows that boost team productivity and help your team meet deadlines consistently.

Track time, expenses, and collect payments faster

Simplify and automate how you and your team track hours and projects for clients.

Make smarter decisions, every step of the way

Leverage AI-powered analytics and intelligent reporting to gain a deeper understanding of your business.

Why legal practices and solicitors choose Sage

At Sage, we understand the unique needs of law firms and we're dedicated to helping you deliver for your clients. Our market-leading, cloud-based legal accounting software seamlessly integrates with payroll, HR, billing and operational solutions. Leverage unmatched, real time insights to boost efficiency and profitability across your practice.

Legal accounting and financials

Seamlessly manage your budgets, expenses, and client billing with user-friendly, automated tools.

  • Automate collections, complex billing processes, and revenue recognition.
  • Streamline invoices, bank reconciliation, and expense approvals.
  • Make smarted decisions with real-time financial data and reports.

HR and payroll for law firms

Simplify your HR and payroll, onboard the best talent, and keep staff engaged, while staying HMRC compliant.

  • Track your teams' hours and manage leave in an integrated payroll system.
  • Handle pensions, statutory deductions, and compliance in one workflow.
  • Empower your employees with self-service access for timesheets and payslips.

Operations for legal practices

Optimise key workflows to boost your firm's efficiency and profitability.

  • Motivate your associates and improve relationships with your clients.
  • Create custom, role-based reports for budgets, spending, and forecasting.
  • Make audits pain-free with automated data trails and quick document retrieval.

Choose the best legal accounting software for your law firm

Elevate your firm withal solutions that deliver efficiency, accuracy, and data-driven decisions.

Sage Accounting<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

Simple accounting software for small business, with built in payroll. Save up to 5 hours weekly on admin with the added power of AI.

Flexible online accounting software. Unlock potential, gain clarity, and save time with cloud accounting software for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses.

  • Get paid 7 days faster and save up to 5 hours of admin per week
  • Create and send sales invoices
  • Track what you're owed
  • Automatic bank reconciliation
  • Calculate and submit VAT
  • Easy to set up and use
  • Be Making Tax Digital ready for VAT
  • Payroll and essential HR features built in

Sage 50 Accounts<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

Desktop accounting software with cloud connectivity, giving you a complete view of your business finances and inventory.

Desktop accounting with cloud connectivity for small businesses with advanced needs:

  • Manage cash flow to stay in control and grow your business
  • Accept payments easily and get paid faster
  • Full visibility and control of your payments from anywhere
  • Automate admin with a cash flow AI tool that saves hours of work
  • Make complex accounting simple with advanced stock management
  • Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant

Sage Intacct<br> <span class="text-highlight-ai" style="line-height:1.6;">with Ai</span>

The leader in cloud accounting and financial management software. Perfect for scale-ups to global enterprises. Bespoke pricing, tailored to your business.
  • Track multiple accounts in real-time
  • Consolidate multiple entities and more in minutes
  • Collaborate from a single source of truth
  • Make strategic decisions with dimensional reporting and analytics
  • Open APIs allow multiple, stable, secure integrations
  • Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant
  • Digital audit trails for confidence and compliance
  • Access your financials anywhere, anytime
  • Customisable revenue recognition
  • Fully automate allocations for speed and accuracy
  • Global consolidations and tax legislation compliance
  • Project costing, time and expenses, and billing in one workflow

Features legal practices and solicitors love

Financials & accounting for law firms

Accurately track costs, deliver timely client billing, and stay profitable with accounting software for legal firms.
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Project costing and billing

Automate complex billing processes and revenue recognition.

Accounts receivable

Automate collections and invoices to increase cash flow.

Dimensions

Gain deep profit insights on teams, service lines, customers, and more.

Reports and dashboards

Get a real-time, comprehensive view of your financial health.

AI-powered GL

Catch errors in thousands of transactions in minutes.

Multi-entity and consolidations

Consolidated view of all entities with clarity.

Open API

Integrates seamlessly with your CRM, practice management, and hundreds of other business applications.

Operations

Revolutionise your team's productivity and time management with legal accounting software and business solutions.

Time tacking and billing

Cloud-based time tracking and billing solution for lawyers and solicitors.

AI-powered support

Empower your team with their own AI-powered time assistant.

Project intelligence

Uncover project trends and optimise your team's realisation rates.

Project reporting

Increase project profitability and make data-driven decisions.

HR and payroll

Build, manage, and develop your all-star team and streamline payroll and HR processes with our HR and accounting software for legal professionals.

Payroll

Process payroll faster with an automated and intuitive solution.

Data integration

Seamless integration with existing systems and accounting tools.

Self-service

Empower employees to manage HR data and tasks themselves.

Flexible HR system

Automate and streamline time-consuming manual HR processes.

Workforce development

Upskill your workforce to meet evolving client needs and stay competitive.

Talent acquisition

Find and hire specialised talent.

The preferred business management and accounting software for legal professionals

Sage has over 40 years of experience supporting law firms and solicitors. We understand the unique challenges of your profession, and have developed our solutions to address your specific operational needs. Our online legal accounting software and business management tools have helped countless practices simplify processes to vastly improve efficiency and profitability.
Cloud deployment options
Customisation options
Advanced feature options
Scalable solutions for growth
Seamless integrations
Expert support and training

Peter Gaca

Owner, BITS Consultancy Ltd.

“One of the biggest benefits of Sage, is the time it saved me. It's automated, it's connected to banks, and it's connected to my accountant. So, I've got a single view of the world.”
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Online legal accounting software FAQs

Legal accounting software helps law firms and solicitors track income and expenses while spending less time on financial admin. If you opt for cloud-based legal accounting software, you'll have more flexibility on-the-go, allowing you to work and monitor cash flow anywhere, online. Seamless integration with payroll tools also mean that you can pay associates at your practice easily and quickly.

Accounting software helps solicitors and lawyers spend less time on financial admin, their books, and tax returns. It's more user-friendly and efficient than spreadsheets and faster than going through files of old paper receipts. 

Legal practice accounting software like Sage offers comprehensive solutions for finance, operations, HR, and payroll. An example is Sage Intacct, a financial management system with tailor-made features for legal firms. 

We work with companies whose financial management needs range from simple cost tracking to detailed task-cost allocation and complex billing requirements. Our cloud-based system is centred on a high-powered general ledger that provides dimension-level tracking for all your transactions. This means you can significantly reduce the number of GL accounts you use, while also significantly expanding the way you report on your data. 

With automation of processes related to project costing, vendor management, accounts payable, billing, time and expense tracking, and resource management, Sage Intacct allows your finance team to focus on strategy instead of administrative processes.

Many service-based businesses constantly face revenue leakage, low utilisation, and strained project profit. Accurate and complete time entry is a major contributing factor to these struggles. 

Sage Intelligent Time is the only AI-powered time entry system built into a full-featured ERP system. Sage Intelligent Time provides each member of your team with an AI-powered time assistant that provides suggested time entry cards based on that employee’s calendar, email, and other activity. Using machine learning, the Time Assistant gets smarter and continuously improves the speed and accuracy of your teams’ timesheets.

Sage Intelligent Time offers a solution to an age-old problem for service-based businesses. Artificial intelligence and machine learning provide a tangible tool for your team to receive continuous and trusted insights on their time. With this insight, your project managers can make better decisions. This means your project pricing will be more accurate, and your invoicing and close process faster than ever.

Yes, accounting software often supports trust accounting with typical features such as keeping records and tracking funds held in trust for clients. This can help keep you compliant with trust accounting rules, creating accurate trust account statements, reconciling transactions, and maintaining audit trails. Integrating these functions into your accounting solution streamlines fund management processes while minimising errors and facilitating compliance.

For many growing legal firms, the billing process is too labour-intensive to scale. Billing for services can be complicated, depending on the various elements that you need to include on your invoice. 

Sage software is built to handle even the most complex invoicing needs, as well as the variety of revenue recognition methods that can be associated with them. 

Automation around time entry, expenses, invoice formats, vendors, and all the other components required for billing, are instantly available for your team to quickly draft and issue invoices. Sage helps you to scale your business without being held back by cumbersome processes.

When it comes to financial reporting, automation, accuracy, and customisation are critical requirements for an effective solution. Sage software's financial reporting excels at all three. 

By leveraging the general ledger’s dimensions, reports can be grouped and sorted in nearly unlimited ways. Financial reporting done right can provide the insight your financial team needs to go from burdened with administrative tasks to focusing on strategic planning. 

Whether you’re creating multiple profit and loss reports or automating project reports for your project managers, Sage can handle you needs.

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