Support Bulletin - Sage 50 Accounts - March 2025

This month, we're covering how to gain your Management Reports digital badge, running your financial year end, using Backup Manager, free webinars and more.

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Earn your Management Reports digital badge

Mark your calendar between 31 March and 10 April, as we're running sessions to help you get to grips with management reports. To earn your Sage digital badge, attend five of the six topics and the quiz. Register now

Set up budgets

It's easy to monitor how your business is performing by entering budgets. You can quickly compare your actual figures against the budgets for each month and for the whole year, to see if your business is on track. Check the budgeting methods available.

Closing down a financial year

Get support on how to close a financial year from our step by step articles, where we cover the process from start to finish. Including optional housekeeping tasks you can run to tidy your data, and streamline your records. Visit the Financial year end Help Centre.

Customer credit control

To help you with credit control, the Chase Debt option is a great way to easily view a list of your customers and their current debt position. Read more about the Chase Debt module.

Save time with added peace of mind

Backup Manager makes managing your check data and backups simple. You can schedule these to run automatically even if you don't have your software open, and you can still work while your checks and backups are running. Schedule check data and backups.

Streamline your accounts processing

Our experts demo useful product features and share tips and expertise. Upcoming topics include budgets, credit control, year end, departments and more... Register now.

Creating a supplier remittance

Did you know you can create a supplier remittance to send to your supplier along with your payment? This helps reduce errors and payment queries, as it shows your supplier exactly which invoices you're paying. It's quick and easy. Read more.

Allocating transactions

 If you have an invoice that pays off an existing credit note or payment on account, you can allocate these together in just a few clicks

Help and support

If you need assistance, select Help within your software or visit our Help Centre. Don't forget, you can also connect with other Sage users, right here in Community Hub.