SAGE ONE ACCOUNTING FOR SMALL BUSINESS

SME BUSINESS CLUB
Jul 28, 2017 · 5 min read

Simple, Secure and affordable online accounting and payroll for small growing businesses.

Are you an SME, you might not be surprised that for every 5 SME’S 3 will fail before their first anniversary. The main reason is because of financial constraints and lack of financial and accounting information to effectively manage their business due to the fact that most business owners don’t have any accounting background nor can they afford an accountant full time.

But you should worry no more, Sage is here to help you out with an efficient accounting solution “Sage One Accounting” which it has managed to provide to over 60,000 SME’s in Africa and 300 SME’s in Kenya.

SageOne accounting is a cloud based accounting software by the leading Accounting software company in the world, Sage.

Sage one Accounting is specifically designed for small business with unique needs, “Simple and secure online accounting” that is cloud based, you can access your accounting information from anywhere, at any time from your mobile phone, laptop, tablet and desktop computer all you need is internet connection. There is no more installing or downloading of complicated accounting software.

BASIC FEATURES

I have been using Sage One Accounting since March 2017 and I have come to appreciate its great features.

The following are the basic features

  1. Easy and Simple To Use

The software is designed in a simple to use every day language just about anyone can use it, even non-accountants. Simply put you don’t need to be an accountant to use it. There are no more accounting jargons. Invoicing your customers has been made simple with a very user friendly invoice template with very clear input sections.

2. Easy Invoicing on Mobile App

Just when you thought business management could not be easier, you can now send invoices and quotes with your mobile phone using Sage One Mobile App from anywhere, you no longer have to rush to your office in order to send quotes and invoices, you can now send them straight from your mobile phone.

3. Secure

All your accounting data are stored online therefore you don’t need to worry about your data being lost when your computer or backing up your accounting data as it is already in the cloud, you can access sage one accounting from any computer worldwide with a world class password encryption so that you are assured you are the only one who can access your accounting data.

4. Flexible

As sage one accounting is online you and your customers can access it virtually from anywhere. This makes it easier for your customers to access their quotes, invoices and statements online, engaging with you via Sage One to make your business processes faster, flexible and more professional.

5. Customer Management

With Sage One you are able to easily track what you are owed by your customers at a glance and chase overdue balances more effectively including sending customer statements online.

6. Take Care of VAT

Sage One Accounting is VAT compliant. You will be able to calculate VAT due in confidence and be able to download VAT CSV file for uploading to your ITax VAT return very easily like a pro.

7. Business Status Reports

Sage One dashboard gives you an easy to understand overview of how your business performance at a glance at any given time immediately which can also filter only the very important information to you. Sage One will give you an overview of your top customers, sales history, outstanding balances and so much more.

8. Understandable Financial Reports

Sage accounting provides you with easy to understand profit and loss accounts and balance sheet which you can also design using Sage one intelligence to suit your preference reporting format.

9. Bank Management

You can easily upload your whole bank statements to Sage one this eliminate manual inputting of bank transactions and no more manual bank reconciliations as this will be done automatically by sage one accounting.

10. Tailored For You

Sage one is designed to fit your business workflow and can integrate with various add- on’s such as Point of sale software’s, this is a plus for restaurant owners, small supermarkets and retailers.

11. Product and Services Management

With sage one accounting you will be able to keep accurate to the point stock records on a minute by minute basis every time a product is sold or when you buy additional stock. You will also be able to speed up sales and calculate gross profit for each sale you make instantly.

12. Collaborate

Where you have outsourced your accounting function, you and your accountant can work on the same accounting data at the same time where ever both of you are located. The accountant will no longer have to schedule meetings to come to you he can work on your accounts from his office. This makes it easy for your auditor too ant the end of the year when your auditor is auditing your accounts there will be no need to ferry boxes of files to and from the auditor, your auditor will have access to your accounts from his office.

13. Document Attachment

You can attach receipts and invoices to every transaction this means you nor longer have to keep boxes and huge files to store your purchases and sales receipts. These can be stored online which makes auditing by your auditor even more efficient.

14. Support

When you need any help, it is always available all you need is call the support desk or email you will get spontaneous free support help.

Customers Testimonials

  1. Martin Kibote Founder — Mediabox Advertising Ltd.

We found it easy to make the transition to the Sage One system and found the training resources for the software to be helpful. Since we went live with Sage One, we have been able to greatly improve our service, for example, quoting more promptly than we could in the past. This gives us an edge in a competitive industry.”

Contact us for more Details:

Patrick Kagunya

Wescotts Consulting

Authorized Certified Sage One Accounting and Payroll Reseller and Adviser

0733 484 586

sage@wescotts.co.ke

SME BUSINESS CLUB

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