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Sage 200 for upgraders

Three pluses compared to Sage 50 and Line 100
Sage 200 is Sage UK's mid range finance and CRM software suite. As such it is an obvious candidate for businesses that have outgrown Sage Line 50 (or Sage 50 as the latest versions are called.) This article can't address the question of whether it is the right upgrade for individual readers, but it picks out the three things that the author likes best about Sage 200 after too many years using and giving support on Sage products. 1) It's period based (good news for Sage 50 users) and it knows about year and period (good news for Sage Line 100 users). Together these mean that you can finalise reporting for a period and move on, and if you have to justify the movements on any nominal you can reliably find all the transactions that comprise the movement. 2) The customisation tools are closely integrated and are aware of Sage 200's business rules. This means that the behaviour of standard Sage 200 screens can be changed, or indeed the whole screen replaced with something specific to your business, while ensuring that the data that is written is fully compliant with Sage's expectations. 3) Sage 200's data is stored in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that reporting is really flexible. The author's preferred approach is to live link Microsoft Excel to Sage 200 data using SQL Server "views". This allows, for example, aged debtors report which show the time, date and result of the last credit control call, and which consolidate data from multiple companies if you run more than one legal entity.
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