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.
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): As well as 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 will allow you to store and manage multiple customer, supplier and company delivery address.
Quotation Handling Process (Accountant Plus & Financial Controller): Create quotations and proformas.
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, as well as 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 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.
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 requires 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 & Fulfilment – Enables you to create orders, allocate stock, despatch stock and produce delivery notes.
In addition, when you don’t have enough stock to satisfy orders, the sales order fulfilment feature automates this process by informing you of shortfalls and automatically generates 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.