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Variant - Features grid

If you want to get the most out of Sage Accounts, it's important to make sure you're on the right variant - there may be features on higher variants that save you time and money. When you open Sage Accounts the modules, features and utilities available depend upon the variant of the software that you have installed.

The table below is an overview of the main feature differences between different variants of Sage Accounts.

To see the differences between different versions of Sage Accounts, please refer to the Version - Features Grid.

If you are interested in upgrading your software, you can get more information from our website.

*Foreign trader comes free with Sage 50 Accounts Professional but is also available as an optional extra with all other variants.

Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Working with customers	Customer statements	•	•	•	•	•
	Late payment charges	•	•	•	•	•
	Quotation management	•	•	•	•	•
	Invoicing	•	•	•	•	•
	Cash register	•	•	•	•	•
	Card payments	•	•	•	•	•
	Addresses and contacts			•	•	•
	Batch changes			•	•	•
	Chase Debt			•	•	•
	Communications history			•	•	•
	Recurring invoices			•	•	•
	Memorise and recall				•	•
	Customer price lists				•	•
	Customer invoice disputes				•	•
	Contra entries				•	•
	Sales order processing					•
	Intrastat returns					•
	Sales order fulfillment					•
	Recurring sales orders					•
	Cash sales					•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Working with suppliers	Manage payments			•	•	•
	Communications history			•	•	•
	Addresses and contacts			•	•	•
	CIS and subcontractors			•	•	•
	Memorise and recall				•	•
	Supplier invoice disputes				•	•
	Contra entries				•	•
	Supplier price lists					•
	Purchase order processing					•
	Intrastat returns					•
	Recurring purchase orders					•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Working with stock	Opening and closing stock wizard		•	•	•	•
	Stock take		•	•	•	•
	Stock shortfall				•	•
	Bill of materials (BOM)				•	•
	Price lists and special pricing				•	•
	Stock returns				•	•
	Stock allocations				•	•
	Quantity sold discounts				•	•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Working with the bank	Bank reconciliation	•	•	•	•	•
	eBanking	•	•	•	•	•
	Cash Register	•	•	•	•	•
	Recurring bank transactions	•	•	•	•	•
	Remittances			•	•	•
	Cash flow planner			•	•	•
	Memorise and recall				•	•
	Cheque printing				•	•
	Batch supplier payments					•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Accounts and management reporting	Accountant link	•	•	•	•	•
	Accounts verification and audit reports	•	•	•	•	•
	Lock date	•	•	•	•	•
	Departments		•	•	•	•
	Departmental profit and loss			•	•	•
	Departmental balance sheet			•	•	•
	Advanced budgets			•	•	•
	Fixed asset register				•	•
	Automatic prepayments and accruals				•	•
	Automatic journal reversal				•	•
	Multicompany consolidation					•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
VAT management	VAT Return adjustments	•	•	•	•	•
	VAT transfer wizard	•	•	•	•	•
	Internet submission of VAT return	•	•	•	•	•
	Online payment of VAT return	•	•	•	•	•
	Automatic reverse charge postings	•	•	•	•	•
	Internet submission of EC sales list	•	•	•	•	•
	Flat Rate VAT schemes	•	•	•	•	•
	Scale charges wizard				•	•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
Projects	Project costing				•	•
Projects	Multi-level projects				•	•
Area	Feature	Instant	Instant Plus	Accounts	Accounts Plus	Accounts Professional
General functionality	Report Designer	•	•	•	•	•
	Transaction email	•	•	•	•	•
	Excel Integrated Reporting	•	•	•	•	•
	Error corrections and refunds	•	•	•	•	•
	Diary	•	•	•	•	•
	File import	•	•	•	•	•
	Microsoft Office integration	•	•	•	•	•
	SageCover services stack	•	•	•	•	•
	Multi-user functionality		Up to 2 concurrent users	Up to 2 concurrent users	Up to 2 concurrent users	Up to 10 concurrent users
	Access rights	•	•	•	•	•
	Sage 50 Mobile			•	•	•
	Multicompany functionality			•	•	•
	Batch reporting			•	•	•
	Charities			•	•	•
	Multicurrency functionality - Foreign trader	•*	•*	•*	•*	•

*Foreign trader comes free with Sage 50 Accounts Professional but is also available as an optional extra with all other variants.

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Variant - Features grid

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