Working with Line 50                                                                                               

Process Maps
Each of the main areas of Line 50 now have a map, showing you how to make light work of business processes such as sales order fulfillment.

Dashboards
All main areas of Line 50 now have an optional Dashboard View, helping you to check your company’s performance, rapidly and accurately.
The Dashboards display a summary of your company’s key information, providing a complete view of your company’s business.

Data Import
Choose how you want to import information into Line 50 v12.
The Information Import Wizard in version 12 makes it even easier to import customer and supplier records, transactions, stock, and project records.

Working with your customers and suppliers

Sales & Purchase Ledgers – All Variants
A comprehensive list of all your customers and suppliers, with the facility to process batch invoices, view outstanding invoices and print labels, letters, statements and reports.

Credit Control – All Variants
Record detailed credit information about your customers and suppliers.

Invoicing – All Variants
Generate invoices for your customers by using the product records you create or details of the services you provide.

Discounting – All Variants
You can now see and change discounts as you enter invoices and orders.
Whether you want to apply one-off discounts or discounts across the board, Sage Line 50 version 12 helps you provide your customers with a clear indication of the total discount allowed.

Document Manager – All Variants
Document Manager allows you to maintain control over all documentation relating to a number of areas within Line 50 such as Customers, Suppliers, Products and Transactions.
You can store, view, modify and print attachments such as letters, price lists, delivery and assembly instructions.

Project Costing – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
This feature lets you create records for specific projects & specific customers, assigning project references to them.
Organise your projects in logical groups, record committed costs against projects, analyse rolled-up costs and budgets, and compare costs incurred against budgeted amounts.

Individual Customer Pricing & Custom Price Lists – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller, including the overall Sales price, a product code can now contain a sales price for each individual customer.
You can also set up a number of Price Lists for your product records.

Multiple Delivery Addresses – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
This feature allows you to store and manage multiple customer, supplier and company delivery addresses.

Quotation Handling Process – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
Create quotations and pro forma invoices with ease.
Choose whether you want to turn a quotation into an order or invoice, or whether you want to keep the quotation for your records.
Analysis and reporting tools help you to monitor the top performers and how many orders you win and lose, whilst allowing you to track the conversion of quotations to orders.

Working with your accounts

Nominal Ledger – All Variants
This is the heart of your accounting system, where all your business information on your assets, liabilities, income and expenditure is held.
This forms the basis of your profit and loss and balance sheet reports which can be run at month and year ends.

Accounts Analyser – All Variants
This feature displays the nominal ledger as a comprehensive on-screen set of charts that can be investigated in more depth by drilling down from the same screen with just one click.

Bank Records & Bank Reconciliation – All Variants
Record multiple bank accounts and their details, enter payments and receipts and save bank reconciliations part-way through.

Cash Flow Planner – All Variants
Displays outstanding payments due in and out and allows forward cash flow planning, including the impact of making or receiving payments will have on your finances over the next few weeks.

VAT Management & Audit Assistant – All Variants
A VAT return can be generated and completed at the touch of a button, in hours rather than days. This feature checks customers’ data for accuracy and helps prepare for an audit.
It also identifies suspect / duplicate transactions and runs checks for possible VAT queries and errors.

Profit & Loss and Balance Sheets – All Variants
By using the accounting information stored within Line 50, both of these financial reports can be generated at the touch of a button.

Report Designer – All Variants
Gives you the ability to produce reports and information in a way that meets your needs.
You can modify and refresh data ranges, change the chart of accounts used and take any Sage Line 50 report (even a report you’ve designed yourself) and use it in Excel as a Sage Data Range.

Support For Charities – All Variants
By working closely with accountants specialising in working with charities, we’ve included fund management, charity-specific financial reports, and an improved chart of accounts designed just for charities.

Historical Data Analysis – All Variants
Allows users to archive a complete set of company data before running your year-end. You can then analyse and report on archived data, which is immediately available without having to restore a back-up.

e-Bank Reconciliation - reconciles transactions in Sage with those in your banking software.
Download a bank statement into your Sage accounts program and automatically reconcile payments and receipts against both statements.

Transaction e-Mail – All Variants
Allows orders and invoices to be sent and received by e-mail instead of printed out and sent by post. Imports received orders & invoices directly into the accounts software, so there is no need to re-key the information.
Provides confirmation messages throughout the order-processing cycle.

Cheque Printing – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
The function gives you the ability to print cheques directly from your Line 50 software.

Foreign Trader & Foreign Bank Account Revaluation – Financial Controller

Process foreign currency transactions in all major currencies. Produce invoices, credit notes, sales and purchase orders in foreign currency. Make & receive payments in foreign currencies.
Maintain foreign currency price lists, handle exchange rate fluctuations, and comply with legislative requirements for declaring foreign trade on their VAT returns and in Intrastat declarations in both standard and cash-based VAT accounting. Transfer funds between foreign currency bank accounts. Working with your products and services

Bill Of Materials – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
An easy-to-use Bill of Materials editor allows you to set up records of the basic ‘kit of parts’ for your manufactured or assembled items, now allowing up to 100 hierarchical levels – more than enough for even the most demanding small manufacturing business.
The stock transfer option allows you to record the use of stock items to make up one of your manufactured or assembled items.
The “Check Bill of Materials” feature allows you to see whether you have enough stock to make up your assembled items and the Stock Explosion and Makeup Reports display and print details of your manufactured and assembled items.

Stock Allocation – Accountant Plus & Financial Controller
As well as allocating stock to sales orders, you can now allocate to projects, or set aside stock for specific purposes. You can also review and modify these reservations.

Cash Sales – Financial Controller
Line 50 v12 now helps you to execute trade counter sales quickly and easily. The Cash Sale button is configurable, so you can chose which documents should be printed.

Sales Order Processing & Fulfillment –
Enables you to create orders, allocate stock, dispatch stock and produce delivery notes.
In addition, when you don’t have enough stock to satisfy orders, the sales order fulfillment feature automates this process by informing you of shortfalls and automatically generating a purchase order.

Purchase Order Processing – Financial Controller
Enables you to create an order, put on-order and then record delivery of the stock. Automatically generates an invoice and increase stock levels.

PRODUCT COMPARISON TABLE

Product overview Accountant Accountant Plus Financial Controller
Working with Line 50
New Process maps
New Dashboards


Multi-company &
multi-user options (additional charge applies)
up to 2 users
up to 2 users
up to 10 users

Working with your customers and suppliers

Sales and purchase ledgers
Credit control
Invoicing
Improved Discounting
Document manager
New Quotation handling process
Improved Project costing
Individual customer pricing & custom price lists
Multiple delivery addresses
Working with your accounts
Nominal ledger
Accounts analyser
Bank records and improved Bank reconciliation
Cash flow planner
VAT management and audit assistant
Profit & loss and balance sheets
Management information and report designer
Improved Excel integrated reporting
New Support for charities
Historical data analysis
Accountant link
e-Banking functionality
Transaction e-mail
Cheque printing

Foreign trader and improved Foreign bank account revaluation

Intrastat support
Working with your products and services
Stock control
Improved Bill of materials
Improved Stock allocation
New Cash sales
Sales order processing and fulfillment
Purchase order processing