Sage 200 is network ready, allowing typically up to 50 users simultaneous access to the program. It also accommodates multiple companies, allowing you to consolidate subsidiaries for management reporting. Additionally, it supports multi-currency trading, and will automatically manage any exchange rate fluctuations.
Sage 200 Nominal Ledger provides you with a wealth of reporting and business management information. Its multi-level structure allows cost centre and departmental breakdown, giving you total flexibility to track budgets and produce profit and loss reports by product, sales region or even individual departments. It simplifies managing your VAT, whilst providing comprehensive analysis of VAT details.
Sage 200 Nominal Ledger – Key Features:
- Flexible account structure
- Set and track budgets at account and group level
- Create memorandum accounts for statistical information
- Create Journal Templates
- Define up to 20 accounting periods
- Attach a file to a Nominal account
- Graphical analysis and presentation of Nominal data
- Drill Down Enquiry Facility
- Batch journal entry
- Easy-to-use VAT Return procedure
- Automate Pre-payment and Accruals
- Flexible Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet layout design
- Unlimited transaction history
- Consolidation
The Cash Book controls all of your bank, investment and cash accounts, with the ability to configure all Standing Orders and Direct Debits. It offers multi-currency processing and advanced bank reconciliation, including links to online banking services.
Sage 200 Cash Book– Key Features:
- Process foreign currency transactions
- E-Banking facility
- Bank Reconciliation
- Automate Direct Debits and Standing Orders
- E-Mail direct from a bank record and launch the bank’s website
- Attach a file to a bank account
- Graphical analysis and presentation of bank data
- Inter Account Transfers
Sage 200 offers total control for managing your customers and suppliers, no matter what currency they trade in. These ledgers are designed to allow you to enter data quickly, by specifying defaults that suit your processes. You can attach all relevant documents to a customer or supplier records, as well as details of individual trading terms. And if you have large volumes of transactions, invoice processing can be batch controlled.
Sage 200 Sales & Purchase Ledger – Key Features:
- Define terms of business for each supplier account
- Unlimited User Definable analysis codes
- User Definable Trading periods
- Graphically analyse and present supplier data
- Transaction ‘drill down’ facility
- Account and transactional drill around facility
- Unlimited transaction history
- Invoice Authorisation
- Optional batch data entry
- Currency management
- Send payments to a factor house
- Automate payments
- Flexible Cheque and Remittance Advice Design
- E-Banking facility to post supplier payments directly through your banking
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- Credit reference information
- Multiple trader contacts
Drill Downs/On Screen enquiries - From the main Sage 200 screen and throughout the system, key user specific business information is readily available. Intelligent drill downs allow you to view detailed information, to transaction level if required. Additionally you can drill across to view all related information. For example, you can view the Nominal Ledger as a Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, drilling down to view nominal accounts and all related transactions. Drill down from the customer record to individual transaction and view or print associated order or invoice details.
Excel Integration - Enhanced Excel integration allows information from Sage 200 to be quickly and easily uplifted into an Excel spreadsheet without the need to re-key or manually export or import data.
A library of Excel functions are supplied to allow financial and commercial information to be pulled into Excel for analysis. Sample spreadsheets are supplied for Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Key Performance Indicators. It is easy to amend these or create new spreadsheets to suit your own business.
Report Designer - Sage 200 is supplied with over 250 ready-made reports covering all aspects of the system, plus a wide range of documents such as credit letters and invoice layouts for everyday use in your business. These reports and layouts can be easily customized or new reports designed from scratch using the WYSIWYG report designer.
When you run a report, a powerful filter helps you select the information needed. This includes any appropriate custom analysis codes. For example, you could run a sales report based on a particular region or salesperson. You can save particular ‘reports’ for future use and frequently-used reports can be added to the Sage 200 menu for easy access.
Reports and other documents can be previewed, e-mailed, printed directly or sent to a print manager for printing at a convenient time. Access rights for the print manager can be set to ensure that sensitive documents are not accessed inappropriately.
Business analysis - Sage 200 gives you the ability to analyse information across your business, such as top customers, best selling products and product history allowing for better and more pro-active decision making.
Throughout the system, custom analysis codes allow you to analyse information in any way you want. You may choose for example, to categorise your customers by region, sales person and account type, so you can analyse sales performance across these categories.
