I am a newbie at accounting and SAGE and am looking to get off on the right foot with regards to entering my newly purchased inventory into my system. With that said, I recall my accountant mentioning in our last meeting that he recommends managing inventory outside of SAGE using an Excel spreadsheet. So, should I be managing inventory outside of SAGE? Or should I at least try to get started using SAGE until I outgrow it? I do see that there are some seemingly good inventory tools inside SAGE so I am a little confused at this point.

At this stage, I am holding minimal inventory: 25 of one product plus about 1-5 of about six other products. Should I enter all this into SAGE or manage this outside? If anybody can provide me tips that would be appreciated. Thanks