Easy-to-use online accounting software

Simplify tasks, reduce manual work, and complete accounts faster with the best accounting software for small businesses, medium enterprises, and sole traders. Manage your finances easily and securely with customisable cloud accounting software.

1 to 49 Employees

Sage Accounting

Manage invoicing, cash flow, tax, payments, and more from anywhere.

Get a 30 day free trial, then prices start at R220 per month (excluding VAT).

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More than 50 Employees

Sage Intacct

The leader in cloud accounting and financial management software. Scalable, highly customisable, with real-time reporting to help you make data-driven business decisions.

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Key benefits of the best accounting software

Over 2 million businesses trust our solutions to simplify financial management and drive success. Why? Because our software for accounting gives you control, clarity, and confidence over your finances—all in one place.

Complete cash flow visibility

With simple, customisable reporting options based on in-depth, real-time data, you’ll have complete visibility of your business cash flow at all times. Easily track and manage income and expenses to keep your business on the path to financial success.

Get paid faster

Automate your accounts receivable collections process, offering your customers multiple-currency and online payment options. Payment alerts will help you keep track of outstanding invoices, with customer reminders and communications issued automatically.

Automate everything, all in one place

Automate your financial management with a single, intuitive system. Manage accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow, ledger accounting, billing, and taxes effortlessly. Smart accounting packages for small businesses save you time and money by simplifying your financial processes.

Manage your business in the cloud

The best online accounting software enables seamless collaboration for you and your team, no matter where you're located, while keeping your business data safe and secure. These flexible, cloud-based solutions can also easily scale as your team grows.

Real-time accounting reports

Generate unlimited reports and create customised financial dashboards using intuitive, ready-to-use templates—all with just one click. Our cloud accounting software includes a powerful multi-dimensional general ledger and smart reporting tools to help you stay on top of your finances. With real-time insights at your fingertips, you can analyse trends, make informed decisions, and keep your business moving forward.

Complete cash flow visibility

With simple, customisable reporting options based on in-depth, real-time data, you’ll have complete visibility of your business cash flow at all times. Easily track and manage income and expenses to keep your business on the path to financial success.

Get paid faster

Automate your accounts receivable collections process, offering your customers multiple-currency and online payment options. Payment alerts will help you keep track of outstanding invoices, with customer reminders and communications issued automatically.,

Automate everything, all in one place

Automate your financial management with a single, intuitive system. Manage accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash flow, ledger accounting, billing, and taxes effortlessly. Smart accounting packages for small businesses save you time and money by simplifying your financial processes.

Manage your business in the cloud

The best online accounting software enables seamless collaboration for you and your team, no matter where you're located, while keeping your business data safe and secure. These flexible, cloud-based solutions can also easily scale as your team grows.

Real-time accounting reports

Generate unlimited reports and create customised financial dashboards using intuitive, ready-to-use templates—all with just one click. Our cloud accounting software includes a powerful multi-dimensional general ledger and smart reporting tools to help you stay on top of your finances. With real-time insights at your fingertips, you can analyse trends, make informed decisions, and keep your business moving forward.

Explore our accounting solutions

Our accounting packages include all the essentials and scale with your business. Upgrade or cancel at any time. No long-term contracts, commitments or hidden fees.

Sage Accounting

Perfect for freelancers, sole traders, and small businesses – now with the added power of AI-functionality to automate tasks and save time. 30-day free trial then starts at R220 per month (Including VAT).

Customise, send, and track invoices, quotes, and estimates
Manage purchase invoices and suppliers
Forecast and control cashflow
Track performance with advanced reports
Calculate and submit VAT
Get Sage Copilot, your AI-powered productivity assistant

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Sage 50 Accounts with AI

Perfect for small businesses with advanced accounting needs. Try for 30 days then starts at R220 per month (including VAT).

Manage cashflow 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 the admin and save yourself hours of work
Make complex accounting simple with advanced stock management

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Sage Intacct

Perfect for mid-sized and growing businesses. Contact us to discuss your pricing options. We'll be in touch within 24 hours.

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

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See what our customers say about our online accounting solutions

Sage Accounting

"With Sage Accounting, you don’t have to worry about anything. The beauty of automation is that we can focus on what makes the business tick."

Dan Shardlow, Owner
Sky Spa

Sage 50 Accounts

“We could not run our business without Sage, efficiently or otherwise.”

Derrick Rowe, CFO
DPR Motorsport

Sage Intacct

“If Sage Intacct got taken away from us tomorrow, I’d feel like the business would go back twenty years.”

Henry Shaw, Managing Director
L W Cole

Accounting software FAQs

Accounting software is a solution that helps businesses or sole traders manage their finances. The software helps with daily tasks, such as managing bills, payments, and inventory. It can also help users record and process their financial transactions, and make financial reports to help businesses make key decisions. Using accounting software saves time, reduces mistakes, helps businesses stay compliant with legislation, and makes financial work easier and more accurate.

Cloud-based accounting solutions are accounting systems hosted in the cloud rather than installed on your desktop or manually maintained in spreadsheets. The software for cloud accounting is hosted on a remote server instead of a server on your business’ premises.

The majority of our accounting solutions work in the cloud, so you don't have to install anything—you simply access the product through your internet browser. However, Sage 50 Accounts does need to be installed on a computer in order to use the cloud capabilities. For all our cloud solutions, we recommend using the latest version of your browser to enjoy a better experience.

Sage online accounting is one of the most secure places to store your financial documentation. We understand your data is sensitive and that's why we make security our most important consideration. Our accounting application is safe and good to go, on the go.

Instead of constantly working in your business, now you can work on your business. With the right solution, you can take care of manual financial processes automatically and help your business run smoothly using your laptop or mobile device. Automate manual bookkeeping processes and avoid wasting time rechecking your figures and dealing with errors.

With our online accounting solution, you can save time, get accurate real-time insights into your company’s finances, collaborate with your team regardless of your location, and reduce business expenses.

Our cloud technology ensures your data is automatically backed up, so you can rely on us to protect important information.

Practical accounting advice for small businesses, sole traders, and growing organisations

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Easy-to-use online accounting software

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Key benefits of the best accounting software

Complete cash flow visibility

Get paid faster

Automate everything, all in one place

Manage your business in the cloud

Real-time accounting reports

Complete cash flow visibility

Get paid faster

Automate everything, all in one place

Manage your business in the cloud

Real-time accounting reports

Explore our accounting solutions

Sage Accounting

Sage 50 Accounts with AI

Sage Intacct

See what our customers say about our online accounting solutions

"With Sage Accounting, you don’t have to worry about anything. The beauty of automation is that we can focus on what makes the business tick."

“We could not run our business without Sage, efficiently or otherwise.”

“If Sage Intacct got taken away from us tomorrow, I’d feel like the business would go back twenty years.”

Accounting software FAQs

What is accounting software?

What is cloud accounting?

Do I need to install any special software to use Sage?

Is your online accounting secure?

How will your cloud accounting software save me time?

How will your accounting solutions help me focus on my business?

Practical accounting advice for small businesses, sole traders, and growing organisations

Sage advice

The ultimate guide to accounts payable reports and reporting

What is the accounts payable process? Steps, workflow and how to improve it

What is ABC analysis in inventory management? Definition, steps and examples

The ultimate guide to accounts payable reconciliation

Accrued expenses vs accounts payable: Key differences

Accrual accounting: What it is, benefits and examples

How accounting is changing for South African small businesses

The ultimate employee onboarding guide

Have any questions?

Expert advice