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We have used SAGE accounts desktop software for over 2 decades and got hit with their TLS upgrade (scam to knock out their perpetual licence holders) that they didn't patch to enable their perpetual licence product holders to continue to use, or indeed even access their own data. So, forced to 'upgrade' to the their latest version just to regain access to the data we are now transitioned from a paid perpetual paid for licence with 10 years remaining onto a £100/mo subscription (with an introductory 50% discount for a few months - thank you SAGE).
I'm not going to pay their subscription more than a month beyond the year end which is at the end of March so I am looking at alternatives. We have simple needs:
Bank entry and reconciliation
Transaction entry
Invoice raising (500 a year) with constant charge item and charge amount (so don't want to have to enter individual line items every invoice). The only variable is the number of units charged.
VAT - I have bridging software so the accounts package doesn't need to have this incorporated
No CIS compliance or purchase order or quotation needed.
I'm looking for an alternative to SAGE 50 and QB is looking like a good choice. Has anyone any better suggestions or info on their own transition from SAGE to QB. I intend starting a fresh accounts record rather than importing prior years from SAGE. I'll just retain a backup copy of the SAGE 50 data for any HMRC inspection or enquiry that they would need to access as we would no longer have access to that data.
I'm not going to pay their subscription more than a month beyond the year end which is at the end of March so I am looking at alternatives. We have simple needs:
Bank entry and reconciliation
Transaction entry
Invoice raising (500 a year) with constant charge item and charge amount (so don't want to have to enter individual line items every invoice). The only variable is the number of units charged.
VAT - I have bridging software so the accounts package doesn't need to have this incorporated
No CIS compliance or purchase order or quotation needed.
I'm looking for an alternative to SAGE 50 and QB is looking like a good choice. Has anyone any better suggestions or info on their own transition from SAGE to QB. I intend starting a fresh accounts record rather than importing prior years from SAGE. I'll just retain a backup copy of the SAGE 50 data for any HMRC inspection or enquiry that they would need to access as we would no longer have access to that data.
