Sage Line 100 - Features and Benefits

General

• Speed. Batch entry facilities in Sage Line 100 give you the ability to enter large volumes of transactions and choose when to commit them to the ledgers

• Multi-user capability. Sage Line 100 supports multiple concurrent users (typically up to 16)

• Foreign currency capability. You can trade with customers and suppliers outside of the UK and in any mixture of currencies. For example, you can produce foreign currency invoices, statements, receipts and payments whilst automatically dealing with currency fluctuations

• Management Information. Sage Informer (included with Sage Line 100) provides up-to-the-minute, concise reports on the current state of your business. It extracts information from your Sage Line 100 system, presenting it as dynamic, ready-made graphs and tables. In addition, a wide range of management reports are available. 

Accounts and Finance 

• Nominal cost centre and departmental analysis. You can attribute costs, analyse budgets and produce management reports, e.g. Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss, by department and cost centre.

• Group budgets make it easy for you to manage your subsidiary companies. Sage Line 100 includes multi-company consolidated financial reporting and group budgeting capabilities.

• Fixed Assets. Sage Line 100 can manage the acquisition, depreciation and disposal of all your assets, including vehicles, plant, buildings and offices. 

Customers 

• Comprehensive customer record stores all details of your customers for easy retrieval.

• Complex discount schemes and individual price lists are supported, allowing you to trade with your customers in a fully flexible way.

• Credit Management. A range of credit tools are supplied including debtors letters, statement production, provisions for doubtful and bad debts, and the ability to place customer accounts on hold.

• Prioritisation of orders. Rate each customer by importance to ensure their orders are fulfilled first.

• Repeat and Duplicate Orders cut down on processing time.

• Quotations and pro formas can be easily raised and converted to orders or invoices.

• Multiple delivery addresses allow you to fit in with your customers’ needs with a Head Office facility. You can send statements to your customers’ head offices, if required. 

Suppliers 

• Comprehensive supplier record stores all details of your suppliers for easy retrieval

• Flexible terms of business

• Automated payments. Sage Line 100 will suggest which payments to make in order to benefit from early settlement discounts

• Purchase Order authorisation allows you to set limits for supervisor approval

• Order matching Check that goods received match your purchase order and supplier invoice

• Preferred Suppliers. Flags attempted use of non-specified suppliers

• Order Consolidation. Save paperwork by consolidating multiple POs into a single invoice

• Returns and credits allow you to manage return of goods to your suppliers. 

 Stock Control 

• Serial and batch number tracking allows you to track individual stock items by unique serial number or track several stock items that collectively form a batch

• Factored pricing (units of measure) allows you to buy stock in bulk and sell in smaller quantities

• Multi-location stock makes it easy to work with stock held in different depots. For example, Sage Line 100 includes provision for multiple depots for purchase, sale and stock transfers

• Alternative stock items. You can specify an alternative to each item to ensure that your customers are never disappointed.

• Stock takes. Sage Line 100 provides routines and documentation to help you manage your stock taking processes

• Multiple suppliers. Specify a default supplier and up to four additional suppliers, storing full details for each

• Bill of Materials. Track and control the assembly of components into your finished goods.

Job Costing 

• Process complex jobs involving stock items, contractors, staff and services - right through to the production of the final job invoice

• Budget reporting. Compare actual costs and quantities against budget

• Multi-level cost classifications. Create multiple hierarchies of costs for labour or stock

• Associate jobs with a contract. Produce contract-based reports combining several jobs

• Work in Progress. Run reports on the status of jobs, including resource allocated. 

Business-specific requirements

• Fully customisable. Sage has an extensive national network of developers who can tailor your Sage Line 100 program to specifically suit your business or industry needs

• Industry-specific requirements.  Numerous third-party add-ons are currently available - for example, modules for manufacturing, retail or services.