• Backing Up

Failed backups cause so much grief, so many systems don't work, PLEASE READ THIS because a backup will be your best friend one day and with it you will be VERY upset. 

• Setting up the Bank Reconciliation

A quick guide to setting up the Bank Reconciliation for the first time

• Guide to the VAT Return Process:

Fuels Scales Charges, The Return & VAT Journal

• What nominal code do I use?

A quick guide to the nominal ledger

• Management Accounts Primer

This primer aims to take you through some of the common procedures required to turn bookkeeping records into valuable management accounts.

• Tip Using the Fixed Asset Register

The Fixed Assets register is a great tool, if you don't add depreciation to your accounts then this is probably the most important step to getting more realistic accounting information.  If you do it by hand then this will save you time and stop silly error like depreciating assets beyond zero value.

• Using search for Credit Control Letters

A quick guide to successfully producing up to three (gentle, firm, final) credit control letters.

• Credit Control Tips and Tricks

• Guide to using the keyboard instead of the mouse

The mouse is an excellent tool, however, if you have a hundred invoices to post and an hour an a half to do it in using the keyboard is a lot faster.

• Guide to creating a mail merge from Sage in Word

Would you like to be able to used the database in sage to mail your customers, you can! You can also incorporate and select using information from the customer accounts such as turnover.

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• Importing into Line 50

Sage Line 50 provides a simple import facility and there are third party additions to do advanced importing

• Tricks Linking Excel to Sage 
  • Who has had what pivot table  

  This example (includes the sheets) shows how pivot tables in excel can slice and dice information.  You can see who bought how much, product lines that some customers do not buy, Which lines sell best, seasonal trends and lots more.  This working example should get you on the road to getting the information you.

  • Simple nominal link

  This is the most simple form of link and a great place to start if you want to understand the process of linking.

Technical Guides

• Guide to finding program and data paths

You need to know this to install ODBC and some 3rd party add-ons

• Guide to installing ODBC Drivers

ODBC has to be set up initially, once done you can forget it, this guide shows you how to do it in simple easy steps.

• Changing how long the splash screen displays

Are you frustrated at the four second delay while you look at the pretty picture waiting to log on, now you can cut the delay.

• Errors

Problems and quick fixes

• Performance

How to get sage to go faster

•  Getting dot matrix printer to print faster

(You shouldn't be using dot matrix printers nowadays, they are slow, noisy horrid things)

Dot matrix printers can be very slow, here is a quick guide on how you can get the most from what you have.

•  Lost in Reports?

(The tree structure of reports makes this less useful now)

Finding the report you need can be hard as there are so many reports, here is our simple guide to organising reports.

• Make your own pre-printed stationery 

(Not so useful now sage will do graphics on reports)

Using the supplied excel template you can print a grid onto your existing letterhead to have pre-printed stationery for invoices, delivery notes, order confirmations ...

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