Products - Returned products

You can use Sage Accounts to record all of the products or services you sell and store information such as description, sale price and units of sale for each item you hold in stock.

The Products window automatically displays all of your products, one line per Product Record. When you are planning your stock system, the product codes you enter need to be as descriptive as possible so that you can locate the product quickly.

Each time you create a new Product Record, you need to enter details such as sales nominal code, department, tax code, and so on. If most of your products have the same defaults, you can set up default information that appears automatically in any new Product Records that you create.

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Financials - VAT return payment

Many businesses using Sage Accounts are VAT registered, which means that for each VAT period they must produce and reconcile their VAT Return. This article is a guide to reconciling transactions that are dated in a previous VAT period but are not flagged as VAT reconciled.

In this video you will learn how to do VAT Return and reconcile in Financial module.

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Sorting Customer Records in Sage Line 50

You can sort your customers or suppliers by any of the columns that appear in the Customers or Suppliers module.

To sort your Customers or Supplers module in numeric or alphabetical order of a column, click on the column title. For example, if you want your Customers or Suppliers module to be in alphabetical order of the Account Name, click Name. If you want your Customers or Suppliers module to be in numeric order of the Account balance, click Balance.

If you want to reverse the order of your Customers or Suppliers module, click the title of the column twice. For example, if you want your Customers or Suppliers module to be in reverse balance order, click Balance, the list resorts into balance order, then click Balance to reverse the order.

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How to raise customer statements

A statement is generated for each customer. You can choose to show only outstanding transactions or all transactions within a date range. The layouts can be customised to suit your needs and can all be run retrospectively by selecting the Exc Later Payments check box in the report criteria. The reports are available in:

This video will show you how to raise customer statements.

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How to Change program date

In this video you will learn how to change programme date, sometime you wanted to post too many invoices in the same date and every time you have to change date, so best if you change programme date that way you dont have to change date at all. But dont forget to change it back to today date other wise you might post some wrong date invoices.

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Sage 50 Accounts 2010 System requirments

Sage 50 Accounts 2010 gives you detailed financial insight to help you 'think business' efficiently and effectively.

For small to medium-sized businesses, you’ll find intuitive tools to help manage everything from cash flow and VAT returns (including online) to year-end accounts and management of customers and suppliers.

Minimum Hardware

• An IBM® compatible computer with 1Ghz, or equivalent, processor
• 512MB RAM
• 700MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows® has been installed
• Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Recommended Hardware

• An IBM compatible computer with a 2GHz, or equivalent, processor
• 1GB RAM
• 1GB of free disk space after Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP (recommended)
• Windows 2000
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7

Please ensure that the latest Microsoft updates are installed.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions.

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Copy your Favourites to a new location

Within Sage 50 Accounts you can add reports you use frequently to a list of favourites. This means you can run those reports straight from the Favourites menu rather than browsing to the relevant reports area.

The reports listed in the Favourites menu are stored in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Sage\Sage Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx, where USER NAME is the user name logged in on the PC and xx is the version of the Sage 50 Accounts software. This folder is not automatically backed up with your Sage data, and therefore, if you reinstall Sage 50 Accounts on a new PC and restore the data, the Favourites are not recreated automatically. Also, as the Favourites list is stored in the local settings directory for the user name, if a different user logs in on a PC they will not automatically see the Favourites created by the first user.

To ensure that your Favourites list appears, you can create a new Favourites list or copy a Favourites list from another PC or user name.

To copy the Favourites folder from another PC or PC user

To follow the steps in this section, Windows must be set to display hidden files and folders. To do this, open My Computer, open the Tools menu then choose Folder Options. Click the View tab, within the Advanced settings pane select the Show hidden files and folders option, click Apply then click OK.

Windows Vista - To display the Tools menu, press the left Alt key.

On the PC from which you want to copy the Favourites folder, open My Computer.

Windows Vista - Open Computer.

The My Computer window appears.

Browse to the following folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Sage\Sage Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx

Windows Vista - Browse to the folder C:\Users\USERNAME\Local Settings\Sage\Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx

Note: USERNAME refers to the user name of the person who set up the Favourites list and vxx refers to the version number of your Sage 50 Accounts software, for example v15. To check the version number, within Sage 50 Accounts open the Help menu and choose About.

The Favourites folder appears.
Right-click the Favourites folder then choose Copy.
The Favourites folder and its contents are copied to the Windows clipboard.

Browse to a shared area on your network, or to a portable storage drive such as a USB pen, then right-click and choose Paste.
The Favourites folder is pasted to the shared drive or storage drive.

On the new PC, open My Computer, browse to the shared network drive or the storage device and double-click the Favourites folder.

Note: If you are copying the Favourites from one user name to another on one PC, this step is on the same PC as the previous steps.

The contents of the folder appear.
Open the Edit menu and choose Select All, then open the Edit menu and choose Copy.
Windows Vista - To display the Edit menu, press the left Alt key.
The contents of the Favourites folder are copied to the Windows clipboard.

Browse to the following folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Sage\Sage Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx\Favourites

Windows Vista - Browse to the folder C:\Users\USERNAME\Local Settings\Sage\Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx\Favourites

Note: USERNAME refers to the user name of the person who requires the copy of the Favourites list and vxx refers to the version number of your Sage 50 Accounts software, for example v15. To check the version number, within Sage 50 Accounts open the Help menu and choose About.

The Favourites folder opens.

Note: If the Favourites folder is missing, to create a folder, right-click and choose New then choose Folder. Rename the folder to Favourites then to open the folder, double-click it.

Open the Edit menu and choose Paste.
Windows Vista - To display the Edit menu, press the left Alt key.
The report files are pasted into the Favourites folder.

To close My Computer and return to the Windows desktop, open the file menu and choose Exit.
You have now copied the Favourites to a new PC or new user name and the Favourites list is now accessible within Sage 50 Accounts.

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