Take the hassle out of managing VAT

Save time by submitting returns in just three clicks, keeping records of your returns and submission receipts together. Show me how gives you the confidence around entering and processing transactions correctly for your VAT Scheme. VAT verifier ensures that your VAT return contains all the transactions for the VAT period you’re submitting.

Anytime, anywhere access

Access your accounts information from anywhere with an internet connection using Sage Drive. Provide colleagues and your accountant with real time, remote access to Sage Instant Accounts data via Sage Drive. Use the Sage 50 Accounts Tracker smartphone app to access current information from Sage Instant Accounts, wherever you are. One Connected User and one Connected Accountant come included with Sage Instant Accounts enabling you to work from anywhere with an internet connection and your accountant not having to leave the office (for two Connected Users to work simultaneously a two user Instant Accounts licence is required).

Streamline your business

Keep detailed records of products and services. Use dashboards for a quick snapshot of business performance. Use the Report Designer to customise and tailor reports. Create customisable quotes and invoices for a professional image. Keep up to date with bank records with simple back reconciliation. Store and find customer and supplier contact details quickly. Save time by scheduling regular automatic back-ups. Share information electronically with your accountant. Track money going in and out of your business. Integrate your accounts with Sage Pay (additional cost applies). Speed up your cash flow by taking payments through your website and accepting debit & credit card payments.

Increase business productivity

Access your accounts information from anywhere with an internet connection using Sage Drive. Provide colleagues and your accountant with real time, remote access to Sage Instant Accounts data via Sage Drive. Use the Sage 50 Accounts Tracker smartphone app to access current information from Sage Instant Accounts, wherever you are. Allow one colleague and one accountant to connect via Sage Drive to access real time data and work on your accounts whilst out of the office, anywhere with an internet connection. Integrate your accounts with Sage Pay (additional cost applies). Speed up your cash flow by taking payments through your website and accepting debit & credit card payments.

All features in Sage Instant Accounts including:
• Market leading accounts software
• Create quotations, invoices and statements that can be customised and emailed
• Available for up to 2 users
• Store and find customer and supplier contact details quickly
• Keep track of sales, expenses and profit
• Dashboards to quickly view your business’ performance
• Control your stock
• Quickly calculate, verify and submit VAT Returns online directly to HMRC
• Sage Drive allows your to access your data securely via cloud storage
• Free Sage 50 Accounts Tracker App allows you to view business insight from your smartphone whilst on the move
• Use Sage Drive to share information online with your accountant
• Works in conjunction with Sage 50 Payroll – up to 15 employees
• Free 45 days’ access to award winning Sage Cover support

Easy to set up and use. Simple network setup for multi-user version. Customise to fit your business. Jargon-free language that's easy to understand. Online help centre with articles and video guides. Learn in practice mode or demonstration data. Easily correct mistakes. Automatic software updates. RSS feeds to keep you up to date with software updates and news. Support for up to an unlimited amount of companies. Register and activate your software online.

Manage your business

Choose from a wide selection of reports to suit the needs of your business. Easily customise your reports. Customise the way you view your software. Keep track of your products and services. Barcode Generation to control your stock. Manage your time with the integrated diary. Support for charities and non-profit organisations. Integrate with your online store (using Sage Pay). Set up an unlimited amount of companies (multi-company license required). Dashboards offer an at a glance overview of your finances, customers, suppliers and stock. Check your data for errors and keep your data safe by regularly using our backup feature. Manage your users and restrict access to different areas of the program. Set up a Chart of Accounts that’s suited to your business. Integrates with Sage 50 Payroll.

Manage your finances

Share information in real time with your accountant via Sage Drive. Keep track of money going in and out of your business. See Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Reports. Control budgets from key areas of your business. Bank reconciliation for up to date figures. Easily correct mistakes. Set up recurring transactions. Manage multiple payment methods including cash, cheque, card, direct debits and discounts. Process your Year End and Month End easily with step by step guides to help you along the way. Forecast your cash flow. Use the lock date feature to prevent users from posting transactions before a set date. Manage multiple currencies with the Foreign Trader module (additional charge applies).

Cloud working with Sage Drive

Will integrate with your Sage 50 Accounts and enable data to be stored in the cloud. All the dependability of desktop software with the additional benefits of online sharing. With Connected Users (additional charge applies), multiple people can access your accounts from various locations. With Sage Drive your accountant has instant access to your accounts from anywhere in the world. You control what users see and have editing rights to. Multiple users can work in your accounts software at the same time and see any changes made in real time.

Manage your suppliers

Dashboard overview of supplier cash allocation, what's outstanding, who you owe money to and tasks for the day. Record purchase invoices in batches. See who you owe money and when each payment is due. Easy access to account activity and communications. Record all your communications in one place. Store all your supplier information in one place such as addresses, contacts and credit information. Process supplier refunds. Use a variety of reports to analyse your supplier debt, activity and performance. Quickly and easily search your customer records with our intelligent search feature.

Manage your stock

Use the stock wizard to easily calculate the value of stock. Perform stock takes and automatically update stock levels ensuring you have enough stock to fulfil orders as you go. Create invoices and quotes that automatically populate details of your products and services. Keep detailed records of products and services you sell. Easily remove products and services no longer sold from your stock list. Record the cost and sales for each product. Easily report on product profitability. View stock levels when raising an invoice or order. Be confident about stock levels at point of sale by importing stock take from Excel/CSV files.

Customise the software to fit your business. Jargon-free language making it easy to understand. Simple network setup for multi-user versions. Online help centre with articles and video guides. Learn in practice mode or use demonstration data. Automatic software updates. RSS feeds to keep you up to date with software updates and news. Set up an unlimited amount of companies. Register and activate your software online.

Manage your finances

Keep track of money going in and out of your business. Easily produce Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Reports. Control budgets from key areas of your business. Bank reconciliation for up to date figures. Easily correct mistakes. Set up recurring transactions. Manage multiple payment methods including cash, cheque, card, direct debits and discounts. Process your Year End and Month End easily with step by step guides to help you along the way. Forecast your cash flow. Use the lock date feature to prevent users from posting transactions before a set date. Support for Annual Return of Trading Details (Ireland). Manage prepayments and accruals. Automatically reverse journal entries. Manage multiple currencies with the Foreign Trader module (additional charge applies).

Manage your stock

Dashboard for overview of best and worst performing products as well as stock levels and value. Store all important stock information in one place including product codes, descriptions, categories and prices. Check stock levels whilst raising invoices. Stock levels automatically update when invoices are posted. Keep records up to date with the stock take feature. A variety of reports allow you to view product performance, profitability and stock levels as well as helping you identify your best and worst performers. Greater stock control with the Bill of Materials feature.

Manage your customers

Automated dashboard to see where your money is, what’s outstanding, aged debt and tasks for the day. Create professional quotations and invoices. Send invoices and statements by email. Add Pay Now buttons to email invoices, statements and debt chase letters. See how much profit you’ll make on each quote or invoice before you commit. Store all customer information in one place, including addresses, contacts and bank details. Easily access customer activity. See who owes you money and when the payment is due. Record all your customer communications in one place. Apply flexible discounts to win business. Find customer contact details quickly and easily. Easily process customer refunds. A variety of reports to analyse customer activity, debt and help identify your best customers. Quickly and easily search customer records with our intelligent search feature. Store multiple delivery addresses in customer records. Create discounted pricelists to apply to one or more customers.

Manage your suppliers

Dashboard overview of supplier cash allocation; what's outstanding, who you owe money to and tasks for the day. Record purchase invoices in batches. See who you owe money to and when payment is due. Easy access to account activity and communications. Record all communications in one place. Store all supplier information in one place such as addresses, contacts and credit information. Process supplier refunds. Use a variety of reports to analyse your supplier debt, activity and performance. Quickly and easily search your customer records with our intelligent search feature.

Easy to set-up and use. Easy to customise to fit your business. Jargon-free language that's easy to understand. Simple network setup for multi-user versions. Online help centre with articles and video guides. Learn in practice mode or demonstration data. Automatic software updates. RSS feeds to keep you up to date with software updates and news. Set up an unlimited amount of companies. Register and activate your software online.

Manage your finances

Customise reports to suit your business. Share information in real time with your accountant through Sage Drive. Keep track of money going in and out of your business. See Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports. Control budgets from key areas of your business. Bank reconciliation for up to date figures. Easily correct mistakes. Set up recurring transactions. Manage multiple payment methods: cash, cheque, card, direct debits and discounts. Process your Year End and Month End easily with step by step guides to help you along the way. Forecast your cash flow. Use the lock date feature to prevent users from posting transactions before a set date. Support for Annual Return of Trading Details (Ireland). Manage prepayments and accruals. Automatically reverse journal entries. Automatically create Intrastat returns. Manage departmental budgets. Deal in foreign currency.

Manage VAT

Built in VAT help centre. Automatically validate VAT returns with the VAT verifier. Prepare & reconcile VAT returns. Manage electronic VAT Submissions - Accredited by HMRC. Manage Flat Rate VAT and VAT Cash Accounting. EC Sales List management.

Manage your customers

Handy dashboard to see where your money is, what's outstanding, aged debt and tasks for the day. Create professional quotations and invoices. Send invoices and statements by email. Add Pay Now buttons to email invoices, statements and debt chase letters. See how much profit you will make on each quote or invoice before you commit. Store all your customer information in one place, including addresses, contacts and bank details. Easily access customer activity. See who owes you money and when it's due. Record all your customer communications in one place. Apply flexible discounts to win business. Find customer contact details quickly and easily. Easily process customer refunds. A variety of reports to analyse your customer activity, debt and to help you identify your best customers. Quickly and easily search your customer records with our intelligent search feature. Store multiple delivery addresses in your customer records. Create discounted pricelists to apply to one or more customers. Create and process sales orders.

Cloud working with Sage Drive

Integrates with your Sage 50 Accounts and enables your data to be stored in the cloud. All the dependability of desktop software with the additional benefits of online sharing. With Connected Users (additional charge applies) can access your accounts from various locations. With Sage Drive your accountant has instant access to your accounts from anywhere in the world. Multiple users can work in your accounts software at the same time and see any changes made in real time.

Choose from two levels of support

Both of our Instant Payroll annual licence plans combine Sage Instant Payroll with our award-winning support. Just choose which one is best for your business. Run your payroll in under 15 minutes

Sage Instant Payroll allows you to run your payroll in five simple steps; from setting up your employees to calculating deductions, printing payslips and making BACS payments Electronically pay your employees and HMRC

Our free e-banking service lets you connect Sage Instant Payroll with your online banking. You can instantly pay HMRC and your employees securely over the internet. Store all your employee information

Safely store all your important employee information in one place. Store detailed records including personal details, tax codes and pay history. Print employee payslips and P60's

Creating and printing payslips, simple reports, P60s and other statutory forms is straightforward, with a variety of layouts for you to choose from Keep up to date with the latest payroll legislation

Be confident that your payroll is legally compliant and accurate with our HMRC-recognised Payroll. You can count on Sage to keep you up-to-date with legislation changes like Real Time Information and the Workplace Pension Reform. Submit and receive data from HMRC online, Sage Instant Payroll takes the hassle out of keeping your HMRC PAYE data up-to-date. You can collect data, such as changes to employee tax codes, from the HMRC Secure Mailbox and directly apply them to your employee records

Manage your payroll

Process weekly, two-weekly, four-weekly and monthly payroll. Choose from a range of payslip layouts. Print or email payslips to employees. Automatically calculate payments and deductions. Calculate and process employee loans. Record and calculate holiday pay. Electronically pay employees using e-banking. Easily calculate your PAYE & NI liability. Post salary journals to Sage Accounts software. Set variances in pay or hours and be alerted when these are reached. Record and calculate Salary Sacrifice deductions such as childcare vouchers and Cycle to Work scheme.

Keep up-to-date with payroll legislation

HMRC recognised software. Comply with the very latest legislation for the tax year. Directly submit PAYE data to HMRC online. Exchange employee data direct with HMRC online. Automatically calculate statutory sick, maternity, paternity and adoption pay. Record student loans and attachment of earnings orders. Record fixed amount or percentage calculated pension schemes. Stay up-to-date with National Minimum Wage. Keep records for Class 1A company cars.

Online HMRC submissions

Send all your submissions to HMRC securely online. Track forms by status and sender. Comply with the latest legislation.

Manage holidays and absence

Manage holiday entitlement for individual employees. Record holidays and absence in days or hours. Record your own custom absence types. Automatically record statutory payment absence types such as SMP and SSP. Easily & accurately accrue employee holidays. Automatically calculate payments & deductions for different absence types. Calculate payments for sick pay, maternity/paternity, overtime, bonus and pensions.

Analyse your payroll data

Easily generate payslips, payment summaries, holiday and absence reports and more. Quickly print a range of reports in one batch. Save your favourite reports for quick & easy access. Analyse data by cost centre and department. Create your own reports with the report designer. Run statutory reports such as P32, P35, P60 and P11.

Keep your payments accurate and secure

Easy backup and restore your data. Roll your data back to correct errors from previous payroll runs. Apply access rights to restrict users from accessing certain areas of the program. Securely email payslips to employees. Password protect PDF reports to keep them secure.

Be compliant with the latest government legislation
Automate Payroll Processes
Securely Manage Employee Data
View Customisable Reports on Payroll Data
Multiple user access (optional Extra)
Manage unlimited employees (optional Extra)
Manage multiple companies (optional Extra)
Management reports can be reproduced quickly and easily
Payment by cheque, cash or BACS
Comprehensive employee records
Instant calculations for total pay, tax and National Insurance
RTI centre - check your data ,submit electronically to HMRC (completely secure) and track your submissions
Report Browser - clear signposting, with easy to understand report descriptions

Valid for Tax Year 2015-2016
Pensions Centre
Resources & tools you need to help with the move to Automatic Enrolment.
Enter your staging date & create a personalised Action Plan
Set up pensions quickly with Fast-track Pensions
Understand the cost of Automatic Enrolment on your business
Create reminders & export to calendars
'Show me how' section to give you all the information you need.
Keep track of your Automatic Enrolment preparation progress
Variance & Exceptions reporting
Calculation drill downs
Automated Payslip Module
Pensions module

Whether you require financials, project numbers, or want to store customer and supplier information for specific jobs, all information is available at a glance with an instant overview in one place with the Sage 50 Job Costing module. Remain within budget by keeping an eye on all financials. Manage time by setting milestones and deadlines to monitor and revise budgets and costs in depth, and compare costs against both your original and revised budget, whilst the progress of different jobs can be compared side by side. Users can even set up unique cost codes and group costs together across a number of jobs for customisable organisation. Using Sage 50 Job Costing, you can easily invoice customers from one system, complete with direct invoice generation from the application using stored customer preferences to save time and maintain a healthy cash-flow. And of course, people costs can also be managed by analysing employee time and labour costs, in addition to automatically performing data transfers to Sage 50 Payroll.

1 - unlimited users Access your database from any computer with live internet access Control access rights - limit which contact records act! users can view Synchronise with the main database with the network sync service View all users' opportunities from the dashboard screen Use over 30 in-built reports to monitor various aspects of your business Streamlined Company Management & Global Actions Increase Sales Effectiveness by driving informed, efficient action based on automatically consolidated contact details and global activity scheduling. Calculated Fields Drive Prioritization and Maximize Customer IQ to help increase productivity, drives sales and enhance relationships. History View Provides an Insightful Look Back to help easily locate, analyse, and act on data. Act! Premium Mobile2 Enhancements Drive Productivity in the Field Usability and System Improvements for Speed and Peace of Mind such as global activity rescheduling, proactive system alerts, and streamlined field and layout configuration.

Sage 50 Forecasting is the easy way to see how different decisions will affect your cash flow, funds flow, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. Monitor your business's financial health on a weekly or monthly basis, and discover future growth opportunities and potential risks with advanced 'What if?' scenarios.

Easy to use advanced forecasting tool
Links in with Sage Accounts, Sage Payroll & Excel spreadsheets
Make automatic calculations on VAT, PAYE & NI...using built-in formulae
Professionally presented reports and graphs
Tailor your forecasts around departments and sub-departments
See potential dips in cash flow before they happen and avoid unpleasant surprises