Accounting Product Comparison
Compare Our Accounting Products to see which software is best suited to your business, with our handy Accounting Product Comparison
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Base Product Information and Features
| Product Description | Sage Business Cloud | Sage 50cloud Pastel Xpress | Sage 50cloud Pastel Partner | Sage 200 Evolution | Microsoft D365 Business Central | ||||
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Pricing From: |
R290 / month |
R572/month |
R1081/month |
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Database Manager |
Online |
Pervasive |
Pervasive |
MS SQL |
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Number of Users |
Unlimited º |
1 – 3 ¹ |
1 – 20 ¹ |
1 – 300+ ¹ |
Unlimited ¹ |
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Number of Companies |
Unlimited º |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
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Number of Financial Years |
Unlimited |
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2² |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
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User Defined Fields |
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General Ledger |
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Segmented GL Accounts |
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Cash Books |
Unlimited |
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Unlimited |
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Customers |
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Inventory |
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Projects |
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Add-On Modules / Included Modules
| Product Description | Sage Business Cloud | Sage 50cloud Pastel Xpress | Sage 50cloud Pastel Partner | Sage 200 Evolution | Microsoft D365 Business Central | ||||
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Multi-Currency |
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GL Manager |
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Journals |
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Intelligence Reporting |
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Receipting |
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Time & Billing |
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Time Sheets |
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Point of Sale |
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Debtors Manager |
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Bank Manager |
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Serial Number Tracking |
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Multi-Store |
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Job Costing |
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Bills of Material |
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Services Manager |
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Manufacturing |
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Mobile App |
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Lot Tracking |
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Fixed Assets |
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Payroll |
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Sage CRM Standard |
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Sage CRM Premium |
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Pricing Matrix (Discount Matrix & Volume Discounts) |
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Customer Account Consolidations |
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Credit Risk Management |
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Scheduled Invoicing |
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Annuity Billing |
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Customer Zone |
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Retail Point of Sale |
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Branch Accounting |
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Project Tracker |
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Procurement |
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Municipal Billing |
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Voucher Management |
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Delivery Management |
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Information Alerts |
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º Cost involved per number of user/company
¹ Users can be purchased in increments according to your needs
² 5 years transactions are stored, but only 2 years are available for processing and for standard reports, available through the View menu
³ Purchase as an add-on module or 3rd party integration software
† Purchase as a stand-alone module.
‡ Only part of Microsoft Business Central Premium Licence (not Standard Licence)
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