Hi Statsstuff,

Sales is correct that Pro is for 1-user license only, but premium can have 2-users or 4-users licenses. For 1 user license, it means 1 data file can be opened by 1 user at the same time. Also, you can either install the full software to 1 workstation and work locally or you can install the full version to 1 workstation and the server only version to a server that is used to host the data file only. You can find more information about user count of different versions from the link below:

http://na.sage.com/sage-50-accounting-ca/products/compare

By looking at the comparison chat, you can see the features offered by premium but not included in pro. For example, departmental accounting and FIFO inventory costing method.

For your question, premium is one step higher than pro. If you data file is from premium 2010, you will need to use premium 2013 to open it. You are not able to downgrade your data file.

If you need to use pro 2013, you will have to create new company, select a date, print the trial balance from premium 2010 as of the date selected, recreate the chat of account in 2013 and use the balance in that trial balance report as the opening balance in your pro 2013.

If you do not want to redo the chart of account in pro 2013, you can follow the link below to access the instruction of exporting and importing accounts:

Exporting and importing accounts data using CSV format with Sage 50-Canadian Edition

Hope this helps

Hi Statsstuff,

Sales is correct that Pro is for 1-user license only, but premium can have 2-users or 4-users licenses. For 1 user license, it means 1 data file can be opened by 1 user at the same time. Also, you can either install the full software to 1 workstation and work locally or you can install the full version to 1 workstation and the server only version to a server that is used to host the data file only. You can find more information about user count of different versions from the link below:

http://na.sage.com/sage-50-accounting-ca/products/compare

By looking at the comparison chat, you can see the features offered by premium but not included in pro. For example, departmental accounting and FIFO inventory costing method.

For your question, premium is one step higher than pro. If you data file is from premium 2010, you will need to use premium 2013 to open it. You are not able to downgrade your data file.

If you need to use pro 2013, you will have to create new company, select a date, print the trial balance from premium 2010 as of the date selected, recreate the chat of account in 2013 and use the balance in that trial balance report as the opening balance in your pro 2013.

If you do not want to redo the chart of account in pro 2013, you can follow the link below to access the instruction of exporting and importing accounts:

Exporting and importing accounts data using CSV format with Sage 50-Canadian Edition

Hope this helps

Thanks for your reply Keith.

So if Pro is a 1-user license only, is the "Bronze" offer correct when it says it is for a 2-user Pro version or is it actually for Premium?

Reviewing the comparison chart, I don't use any of the features added in Premium (only the second user!) So I would be adequately covered by the features in Pro, but if it means having to do a new company setup that presumably means I will lose all of my past history, which would be rather annoying!

Yes you would lose your past history. You can look it up in the old data file, but would not be available in the new data file.

Another big difference between the two is how long financial history can be retained Pro does only 7 years, whereas Premium does 100 years. I have found that customers have discovered that over time they do like to have access to data more than 7 years ago for various reasons.

I recommend you also check to see if they would offer you a very similar package to upgrade to the 2013 Premium....saves you a lot of work resetting up your books if you decide to downgrade.

Jo Anne