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Sage Pastel 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

Report Writer
Cashbook
Budgets


Suppliers
Customers
Multi-Company
Microsoft© Office Integration

OPTIONAL ADD-ON MODULES

Commercials

Purchase Order
Sales Order
Stock Control
Quotations
Goods Received Notes

Multi-Currency
Multi-User
Receipting
Time and Billing
Bill of Materials
Point of Sale
Multi-Store

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GENERAL FEATURES

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.

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.

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.

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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