Working with Sage Line 50 users, we’ve introduced a number of dynamic new features to help you find the information you need as quickly and easily as possible.
Whether you’re an experienced Sage Line 50 user, or looking at Sage Line 50 for the first time, the new features in Sage Line 50 version 12 will make a big difference to your business.

Working with Line 50
Process Maps: Each of the main areas of Line 50 now has a map, showing you how to make light work of business processes such as sales order fulfilment.
Each Process Map consists of a set of steps, connected together to show a workflow.
Dashboards: All main areas of Line 50 now have an optional Dashboard View, helping you to check your companys performance, rapidly and accurately.
The Dashboards display a summary of your companys key information, providing a complete view of your companys business.
You can drill-down for more information, or print the entire dashboard to keep a graphical record of day-by-day performance.
Data Import: The Information Import Wizard in version 12 makes it even easier to import customer and supplier records, transactions, stock, and project records.
Multi-company and multi-user options: Sage Line 50 gives you the ability to store and process more than one set of company accounts.
It can also allow up to ten people to access and process transactions at any one time (additional charge applies).

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, including conversations, letters, emails and promised payments.
Invoicing (All Variants): Generate invoices for your customers by using the product records you created 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.

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 are 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 drill-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 effect 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 minutes 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, at any time of the day, week or year.
Report Designer (All Variants): Gives you the ability to produce reports and information in a way that meets your needs.
Excel Integrated Reporting (All Variants): Microsoft Excel can now link directly to your Line 50 data so that directors & managers can access and analyse accounts information without needing to use Line 50 themselves or have it installed on the same PC.
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, Sage have 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 the year-end. You can then analyse and report on archived data, which is immediately available without having to restore a back-up.
Accountant Link (All Variants): Send information to your accountant electronically. Your accountant can then load, view and record transactions.
Corrections can be easily merged back into your data whilst you continue to process your daily transactions.
e-Banking (All Variants): e-Payments enables customers to make direct payments through BACS by making the supplier payment in the usual way and then transferring to the bank software using the e-payments button.
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.