Sage Instant Accounts
Sage Instant Accounts is easy-to-use bookkeeping software that's ideal for new or small businesses with little or no accounting skills.It saves you time managing your finances and VAT, keeps your bank records up-to-date, and helps you raise invoices and pay your suppliers.
In-depth information for Sage Instant Accounts
Sage Instant Accounts gives you the help you need to manage your finances, customers and suppliers.
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Getting up and running
- Available to download instantly when you buy online
- Immediately register & activate your software online
- Free e-learning included
- Easy set-up wizard
- User friendly interface and menus
- In-product video demos
- Learn in practice more and demonstration data
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Manage your finances
- Share information electronically with your accountant
- Track money going in and out of your business
- Automatically allocate credits against invoices
- Choose from a range of financial reports to analyse your business
- Control budgets for key areas of your business
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Manage your business
- Keep detailed records of your products and services
- Rapidly find information using the Quick Search feature
- Manage your time with the integrated diary
- Use the dashboards for a quick snapshot of your business performance
- Save your favourite reports to access them quickly
- Easily correct any mistakes
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Customer and sales management
- Store and find customer contact details quickly and easily
- Easily create professional looking customer invoices and quotations
- Understand how profitable an invoice will be before you commit
- See who owes you money and when it's due
- Apply flexible discounts to quotes and invoices to win business
- Record till takings, cash sales and card payments
- Encourage immediate payments by adding the Sage Pay 'pay now' button to your email invoices
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Supplier and purchase management
- Store detailed records of your suppliers
- Find contact details quickly
- View a breakdown of individual supplier activity
- Record your purchase invoices in batches
- Easily identify what's outstanding and who you owe money too
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Product and service management
- Integrates perfectly with Microsoft® Excel, Word and Outlook, for further reporting or manipulation of data.
- Integrates with Sage Pay.
- Integrates with ACT!
- Integrates with Sage Additions.
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Free support for 45 days
- New customers receive free support for 45 days
- Free telephone support for 45 days
- Free email support for 45 days
- Free access to online support for 45 days
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Keep your bank records up-to-date
- Keep track of money going in and out of your bank accounts
- Record activity for multiple bank accounts
- Keep accurate bank records with bank reconciliation
- Reconcile your bank in real time with e-reconciliation
- Avoid re-keying information - pay your suppliers with e-payments
- Select from pre-defined Chart of Accounts or customise your own
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Manage your VAT
- Generate your VAT return, European Community sales list and reverse charge sales list
- Easily submit VAT returns to HMRC online
- Distinguish between different tax rates with separate tax codes
- Run Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports at the touch of a button
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Support for various VAT schemes:
- Standard VAT
- VAT Cash Accounting
- Flat Rate VAT
- Irish VAT Cash Accounting
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Technical specs
General Technical Requirements
- 10Gb free disk
- 2Ghz processor or higher
- 1Gbps network (minimum 100Mbps)
- 1Gb RAM – Windows XP
- 2Gb RAM – Windows Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Small Business Server 2011
- 4Gb RAM – For all PCs running a 64-bit operating system
All 32-bit and 64-bit variants of the below operating systems with the latest Microsoft Updates and Service Packs.- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003 *
- Windows Server 2008 *
- Windows Small Business Server 2011 *
Got questions?
Q
Do I need to be an accountant to use Sage Instant Accounts?
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No, this program is designed for people without any prior knowledge of accounts/bookkeeping.
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