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ACCOUNTING PARTNER 2004
The
perfect combination of power, innovation, flexibility, rapid processing
and ease-of-use makes Sage Pastel Accounting Partner 2004 the ideal
solution for the small to medium sized business. It's feature-rich
and robust in a multi-user environment, with multi-currency capability
and a highly intuitive interface.
STANDARD
FEATURES
GENERAL
LEDGER
Create
up to 9999 main accounts. Amongst other information, Sage Pastel Partner
stores the account's number, description and period balance and
gives you the ability to further divide a main account into 999
sub accounts. Sage Pastel Partner stores the following budgets: Current
Budgets, Last Year Budgets - per General Ledger account, per period.
MULTI-PERIOD
- The General Ledger stores 2 years' data. Accounting periods
can, however, be blocked, and preventing transaction processing
to those periods which have been closed. Partner gives you the
flexibility of being either period or date-driven.
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CUSTOMERS
Sage Pastel's
flexible account set-up allows you to configure parameters
per customer - assign monthly or day based terms, multiple
delivery addresses and user-defined fields. Select whether
to e-mail and / or print invoices and statements. Create
as many customers as you need - Sage Pastel's high performance
database won't slow you down as your customer base grows.
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| INVOICING
Entering
invoices is logical and intuitive. The on-screen invoicing
template is a mirror of the physical invoice. Save time,
ensure accuracy and control back orders by linking quotations,
sales orders and invoices.
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| FORMS
DESIGNER
Sage Pastel
Partner's powerful and flexible Forms Designer allows you
to customise your stationery layouts, including the insertion
of your company logo. You can also print various documents,
including: invoices, quotes, orders, credit notes, cheques,
customer statements, supplier remittances, labels, VAT 100
forms and slip printers for point-of-sale.
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| MULTI-COMPANY
Sage Pastel
allows you to set up multiple companies. It also gives you
the flexibility to create your branches as separate companies
and then consolidates this information at GL level.
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SUPPLIERS
Sage Pastel's
Automatic Cheque and Remittance Printing Facility makes
paying your suppliers a simple task. Select a range of
suppliers and payment date. Invoices that are due for
payment on that date are then displayed in a table. You
can edit amounts that are payable and Sage Pastel will automatically
calculate a settlement account for a customer with early
payment terms.
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| CONTROL
CENTRE
With
Sage Pastel's customisable Control Centre you can enquire after,
and continuously monitor, key activity in your company.
For example, you could monitor sales activity with updates
on an hourly basis, as well as inventory levels and bank
balances in real-time.
MICROSOFT©
OFFICE INTEGRATION
Sage Pastel
enables you to integrate your general ledger, customer and
suppler data with Microsoft Office. Personalise communications
by utilising the mail merge and e-mail merge capabilities.
Reports can be in Excel and Word. Customer and supplier
contact information can be exported into Outlook.
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GENERAL
FEATURES
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ASSISTANTS
By
following a few basic instructions and answering simple
questions you will be able to complete tasks more quickly
and easily with Sage Pastel's assistants. For example, Sage Pastel
has an assistant that helps you adjust the selling prices
of your stock items with minimum effort.
E-MAIL
DOCUMENTS
This
feature allows e-mailing of documents such as statements,
invoices, orders and quotations. It enables you to communicate
with your customers quickly and easily.
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NOTE
FACILITY
With
Sage Pastel's Note Facility you can link multiple notes and external
documents to any master file record. In stock, for example,
you can attach specifications, brochures, drawings and pictures
to an item. If you use the Note Facility in conjunction
with the Control Centre you can assign a due date on a note.
The note will appear as a due task in the Control Centre.
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Sage Pastel
EXPLORER AND NAVIGATOR
Finding
your way around Sage Pastel is both simple and intuitive using
either the graphical System Navigator or Sage Pastel Explorer.
Sage Pastel's System Navigator allows you to perform common
tasks quickly using simple graphical icons representative
of every day tasks. Sage Pastel Explorer provides you with
the option to view information in numerous ways. Sage Pastel's
powerful functionality gives you the ability to manage
your money and your business effectively. After all, accounting
isn't just about getting the numbers right, its about
what you are able to do with those numbers.
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FINANCIAL
RATIOS AND GRAPHS
Keep
your finger on the pulse of your business. Use Sage Pastel's
graphic reporting feature to display business-critical information.
For example, view trends in customer sales, inventory movement,
expense allocation and more. Sage Pastel's Financial Ratios allow
you to analyse key areas of your business.
MULTI-LINGUAL
Sage Pastel
Partner is available in a number of languages.
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