Sage Compatability

[Xenan]

I am currently working for a client who has Sage 50 Accounts Professional 2011 which was installed by a previous bookkeeper. When she left she kept the discs and is no longer working for the company. I am concerned that if the laptop goes bang that I won't have the discs to reinstall if required. I do take backups regularly of the data so that won't be an issue but my question is this:

If the company buy Sage Instant Accounts (for example) can I take a back up from the current system and load it onto the Instant version even though it is a more basic Sage?

The same applies for their Payroll as well. It is currently on Sage Payroll Professional 2011.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[johndon68]

You could restore a backup from Sage 50 v2011 into Instant v2011 with no problems as far as the Payroll is concerned, it's not my strong point but I don't think you can go go from 50 to Instant.

With regards to the disks, you don't really need them as full installations of the software can be downloaded from www.sage.co.uk/updates - you do need a Sage login but, as long as the software has been registered with Sage, you can create a login.

John

 

[Xenan]

Thanks for the help John. The payroll is not such an issue to be honest as it has only been used for 5 months and there are only 6 employees so not a big deal to recreate the information if needs be.

As for the Accounts, I am not sure that the copy on the system is a legitimate copy as she provided the discs then took them with her so I cannot verify.

 

[johndon68]

In which case, you could buy Instant v2011 - the only caveat to that would be if any of the features that are in Professional and not in Instant are being used by the client then, clearly, if they did go for Instant, they would be losing functionallity.

John