Product Description

Anyone can use Sage Instant Accounts – no accounting payrollor forecasting experience is required. The user-friendly designputs the right information at your fingertips with just one clickwhile helpful wizards guide you clearly through tasks.T

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1576 in Software
• Brand: Sage
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Dimensions: 1.76 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Sage Instant Accounts is an easy-to-use bookkeeping system, designed to meet the needs of a wide range of UK companies. The software can be installed to suit your business, enables you to keep track of your cash flow, and puts vital information at your fingertips. Reports provide detailed information about your finances, while the Audit Assistant helps make sure your books balance. Sage Instant Accounts also integrates with Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook for further manipulation of data.

Sage Instant Accounts allows you to organise and record your sales and purchases, customer and supplier contacts, invoicing and VAT. The Accounts Analyser gives you an instant snapshot of your financial situation, so you can see where your money comes from and goes to. New Process Maps provide step-by-step guides to help you complete key business tasks, so you always know what to do next. To help you stay on top of your finances, the Bank Reconciliation process allows you to match money recorded in Sage Instant Accounts with your bank statements. You can view and save reconciliations at any time - even part way through, and keep records for future reference.

Sage Instant Accounts helps you to create and customise your quotations then automates the invoicing process, so there's no need to enter the same information twice. Flexible Discounts mean you can apply reductions to individual items and customers or make changes across the board. The Transaction e-mail feature lets you trade electronically, reducing the time and cost involved in placing, receiving and processing orders and invoices. The program also creates your VAT Return, saving you time and ensuring accuracy.

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Customer Reviews

Worth the perseverance !
Version 12 isn't much of a change from v11, so feel welcome to read those reviews also.
Sage gets a mixed response from users. Some find it perfect and others find it difficult to use. I can understand both these opinions.
I purchased SAGE Instant Accounts for my small business, despite the negative reports, because it was recommended by my Accountant and an indepedant website. On first installation I found the software to be a bit of a beast, that was not easy to use or self-explanatory. I entered loads of things incorrectly (using common sense, and not actually accounting proceedurs, and as you you can't delete anything (as all good accounting/bookeeping systems should not let you do), my accounts got in a mess. So, I de-installed, and searched the computer for all the "hidden" files, deleting them all. Then I re-installed the software.
This time I read the User Guide carefully, and now I'm the happiest person in the world! Sage Instant Accounts is a blessing! If you take the time to read the User Guide properly, everything is explained and therefore, your accounts are in perfect working order.
Now it's a pleasure to do my bookeeping - and my Balance Sheet actually balances.
Yes, Sage is cumbersome and anal - but that's the nature of Accounting, I'm afraid. Simple accounting proceedure only makes money for Mr Accountant. With Sage, I can take the time, do it properly, and Mr Accountant has no excuses for charging more than the basic price.
I recommend it - but you MUST read the manual, if you want to get the best out of it.

Makes heavy work - outdated and outmoded.
Not at all user friendly. Support was helpful, whilst free but too expensive for a one man startup. Many areas of the software are not intuitive or compliant with the familiar ways that most applications now work. Even opening a saved report will have you tearing your hair out. Searching and sorting data by date / value etc - a basic feature that most packages offer - just doesn't work. If it wasn't for the fact that I need to submit data to my accountant in Sage format I'd have given up. It's not all bad, but for a program that's been around since before PC's even I think they've rested on their laurels and their link with professional accountants way too long.

The most non user friendly software imaginable!
Probably the most annoyingly non user designed software imaginable. Impossible to make corrections to input problems even on the one user accounts! If only one could send it back! Sage website matches software in being non user friendly, not sure where the free award winning support comes in site seems to only mention support for those that have paid for it on some sort of contract basis. It would seem its in Sage's interest to make the software as annoyingly frustrating as possible in return for future support and training revenue.