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A Borthwick

Move from Sage 200 to Sage 50

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Hi there

Our company has been using Sage 200 Extra 2015 & are considering moving to Sage 50 to fall in line with the software that our sister company is using and (hopefully) to save a substantial amount of money over the year!

Our Sage 200 needs replaced imminently as it will no longer be supported. I don't think we use a lot of the features of Sage 200 but we do use it for stock control and have 3 stock locations. I understand that Sage 50 is unable to cope with multiple stock locations, but has anyone found a work around for this - perhaps using the cost centres as locations? 

And our current business partner for Sage 200 says that moving from 200 to 50 is quite complicated (I believe the 2 use different platforms for the data) - has anyone got some experience of doing this & how did it work out? (I'm not doubting it is complicated, I just want to be aware of the pitfalls)

Thanks

Audrey

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    Hi 

    I used Sage 50 for a long time before moving to Sage 200.

    The first question I would ask is how many concurrent users you expect to have. (To avoid locks)

    Second, if you want multiple locations you must create a product code per location or get the manufacturing Add-on (CIM-50).

    Third ... I do not miss Sage 50 at all. You'll feel some pain if you go down that path. 

    Hope this helps

  • 0 in reply to SAMUEL MAIA

    Thanks - that does help.

    We are only likely to have 3 or 4 concurrent users at any time. To be honest, I think that Sage 200 was put in without too much thought as to whether it was needed. The company is actually quite small, with only around 10 employees and although has a large number of stock lines, the business isn't particularly complicated other than having 3 stock locations. 

    I'll have a look at the manufacturing add-on & see if it looks like it could work for us.

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  • 0 in reply to SAMUEL MAIA

    Thanks - that does help.

    We are only likely to have 3 or 4 concurrent users at any time. To be honest, I think that Sage 200 was put in without too much thought as to whether it was needed. The company is actually quite small, with only around 10 employees and although has a large number of stock lines, the business isn't particularly complicated other than having 3 stock locations. 

    I'll have a look at the manufacturing add-on & see if it looks like it could work for us.

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