Sage Instant
 
    Sage Instant Accounting
Simple bookkeeping solution for small businesses.
   
   
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Customer Records

Suppliers
Nominal Ledger
Bank Accounts
Credit Control
Product Records
Invoices
VAT
Reporting
Data Management
Task Manager
Demo Data
 
What Is It?
Ideal for sole traders or start-ups. Calculates VAT returns, tracks cash flow, processes invoices and credit notes. Manages payment and receipts.
 
 
Features & Benefits
Customer records - enter customer details, set up their credit terms, record sales, post invoices, and identify when their payments are due and overdue.

Supplier records - enter supplier details, see how much you owe and when you need to pay, keep track of the invoices and credit notes you receive. Record the payments you make.

Nominal records - use the standard set of nominal accounts to analyse all your transactions. Add new accounts, edit existing accounts or delete accounts. Use this information to make decisions about your business and to keep your finances under control.

Invoicing - produce invoices and credit notes for your products and services and then update your records automatically with the transaction details.

Bank accounts - record deposits into your bank accounts and keep track of withdrawals. Manage your direct debits and standing orders for up-to-the-minute balances.

Product records - create and keep a record of all the products and services you sell.

Reports - see how your business is performing with reports and compare this year's trading against last year's trading. Print and edit reports and layouts and create reports to your own specifications.

Data management - keep your data free from corruption with back ups, data restore and error correction.

Task Manager - a reminder of actions to take and the bills you have to pay. Identify how much you owe, who owes you and the status of your accounts and invoices.

Guidance - use the Getting Started Guide to give you extra confidence when using Instant Accounting for the first time. Use Help for tips and advice on tasks and let the wizards take you through each task so you get it right, first time.

E-mail and Web access - send e-mail to your customers and suppliers from within Instant Accounting. Launch your customer and supplier websites directly from your ledgers to check out their prices and place orders.

Search - use the Search button to find specific records and avoid searching through all your records. Save your search requests to use again.

Upgrades - upgrade your software as your business expands as all Sage products have compatible data files for quick and efficient transfer.

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Producing your VAT return has never been easier - what used to take hours, now takes minutes.

 
 
Features In Detail
Customer Records -

• Create, edit or delete customer records.
• Use the Customer Record wizard to guide you through the creation of a new customer record.
• View customer invoices, credit notes, receipts and balances on a monthly basis, either as a graph or in a table.
• View a customer's outstanding balances and see the transactions that make up their balance.
• Produce credit notes for your customers.
• Print letters to your customers to remind them of overdue payments or to keep them informed of any special sale offers.
• Print statements for your customers as often as you need.

Suppliers -

• Create, edit or delete supplier records.
• View your trading relationship with each supplier.
• Control the cash flow of your business by agreeing credit terms with your suppliers.
• Enter your suppliers' opening balance as a lump sum or as separate transactions.
• View your supplier transactions on a monthly basis, either as a graph or in a table.
• See how much you owe each supplier and when you need to pay.
• Record all the invoices and credit notes you receive from your suppliers.
 
Nominal Ledger -
 
• Instant Accounting provides you with a standard set of nominal accounts to help you start your work straightaway.
• Create, edit and delete nominal accounts.
• View your nominal ledger transactions as a graph or in a table. You can also examine in detail all the transactions you have posted to your nominal ledger accounts.
• Use journal entries to follow double-entry bookkeeping principles.
• Update your entries automatically.
• Store budget and prior year information to assist you in performance monitoring and business cash flow management.

Bank Accounts -

• Use the Bank Record wizard to help you set up bank, cash and credit card accounts quickly and easily.
• Record deposits into your banks and all withdrawals.
• Record transfers of money between your bank accounts.
• Adjust your bank accounts to take account of bank charges and interest received.
• Use bank reconciliation to check that your bank account transactions match those on your bank statements.
• Print statements at any time to show your reconciled bank payments.
• Record the transfer of money from one bank account to another.
• Record your monthly transactions automatically.

Credit Control -

• Create credit control details tailored to each customer
• Apply credit restrictions to a customer's account.
• Apply credit charges for any late payments.
• Gives advice and tips on debt chasing.
 
Product Records -
 
• Create a record of all the products you sell.
• Record a description, sale price and unit of sale for each product.
• Store an image with your product record.

Invoices -

• Invoice your customers with product details taken from your product records.
• Invoice your customers for the services you provide.
• Apply settlement discounts and record carriage charges.
• Generate and print product credit notes for your customers.
• Print invoices whenever you need.

VAT -

• Let Instant Accounting calculate your VAT Return.
• Check your VAT return on the screen before printing.
• Submit your printed VAT Return to HM Customs and Excise.
• Reconcile your VAT transactions automatically and clear your VAT control accounts.
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Reporting -

• Produce regular reports for up-to-date financial information; Trial Balance, Profit and Loss report, Balance Sheet, Budget report and Prior Year report.
• Use the reports to see how your organisation is trading, what it is worth, the VAT you owe and how you are trading compared to last year or against this year's budget.
• Provide a complete record of all your transactions for the auditors.
• Edit the existing reports and layouts to your own specifications.
• Use Report Designer to create your own reports, layouts, letters and labels.
• Preview your report before printing

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Data Management -

• Back up your data on a regular basis.
• Restore data from your back up disks.
• Correct any errors in your transactions.
• Create new data files.

Task Manager -

• Set up tasks to remind yourself of bills you have to pay
• Use the Bills option to record all the regular bills you have to pay.

Demo Data -

• Try out new options and familiarise yourself with Instant Accounting without affecting your own company's records.

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