Sage unveils effective management solutions software for businesses in Africa

To ensure effective management solutions to businesses in Africa, Sage, a global integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems provider, has unveiled Sage 50 Accounting across locations in East and West Africa.

Speaking during the lunch, the Divisional Director for Sage East and West Africa, Rutendo Hwindingwi, said, “Sage 50 Accounting brings all aspects of the operating environment together, providing a complete business management solution. The comprehensive range of features and add-on modules provide a robust management tool for your businesses.”

According to him, Sage 50 Accounting is a holistic accounting and business management solution for small and medium businesses.

Also speaking the Executive Vice-President and Managing Director, Sage South Africa and Southern Africa, Anton van Heerden, noted that the future of business is mobile and “We are giving our customers the power to control their businesses from the palm of their hand with solutions like Sage 550 Accounting.

“We connect our customers to accountants and partners with real-time and intuitive information about their business. Sage 50 Accounting enables our customers to focus on their business and helps them to leapfrog to the future.”

Some of the features on Sage 50 Accounting include system audit manager and audit trails; post-dated checks; mobile sales; bank statement manager; accounts receivable and payable; fixed assets; inventory control and auto incremental reference number, others are departmentalised financial statements; user defined header fields; management dashboards; Microsoft office integration and many more.

A feature like advanced security provides confidentiality within a user organisation. It helps leaders control access to information that they do not want other members of staff to see. Sage 50 Accounting also features multi-level, menu-driven password access control and it enables the user to control who sees what with password protected menus.

The system audit manager helps a user company eliminate internal fraud and unauthorised transacting within the business. By using the feature, the user can track and manage database activities for all or selected database tables allowing the user to report on detailed changes for both transactions.