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Sage BusinessWorks Ver. 2011

Accounting System Overview

Sage BusinessWorks Accounting provides the tools you need to manage your business effectively today, allowing you to build a more profitable tomorrow. Sage BusinessWorks combines robust features and high-level performance through 11 fully integrated modules and multi-user networking capabilities supporting up to 48 concurrent users

Sage BusinessWorks 2010Save time and improve the profitability of your business using the Sage BusinessWorks modules, which offer a wealth of features. Select a link below to learn how you can put one of these powerful modules to work for you.

System Manager
Move easily from task to task in Sage BusinessWorks using the System Manager, which supports up to 45 concurrent users. This module provides quick access to Microsoft Office applications, the Internet, and the Sage BusinessWorks Services Center.
General Ledger
Combining flexibility with ease of use, the Sage BusinessWorks General Ledger module maintains current financial information, as well as transaction history and budget information for up to nine fiscal years. This module also allows a virtually unlimited number of accounts in the chart of accounts, each with up to 999 departments.
Cash Management
Designed to help you manage your company's cash transaction processing and reconciliation, the Cash Management module fully integrates with the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and General Ledger modules to offer a comprehensive accounting software solution.
Accounts Payable
Save time and money with the Accounts Payable module, which efficiently manages your company's expenditures. This advanced module operates seamlessly with other Sage BusinessWorks modules as it stores, sorts, and organizes vendor information and transactions and then uses this information to produce a wide range of reports.
Accounts Receivable
From credit management to sales analysis, the powerful Sage BusinessWorks Accounts Receivable module provides your organization with extensive information and reporting features. This module provides an efficient and organized system for maintaining customer information and works smoothly in conjunction with additional Sage BusinessWorks modules.
Inventory Control and Purchasing
Make sure you have adequate inventory levels to satisfy your customers with the Inventory Control module, which includes light manufacturing capabilities, serial number tracking, and multi-warehouse support. Included at no charge, the Purchase Order module tracks purchase orders from entry to fulfilment, providing a complete detailed history. The Automatic Purchase Order feature will generate purchase orders based on inventory stock levels, EOQ and Order Point information entered for each part.
Order Entry
With the Order Entry module, your company's sales staff can easily access a variety of useful customer information, including past purchase histories, shipping addresses, and credit card information. In addition to processing quotes, sales orders, and invoices, Order Entry can be set up to alert your sales staff when a customer exceeds a credit limit.
Payroll
Complete your in-house payroll tasks quickly and accurately with the power of the Sage BusinessWorks Payroll module, which uses a comprehensive database of employee information to allow easy compilation of paychecks, W-2s, and both federal and state government reports. All current tax tables are built into Payroll for the federal government, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia, and e-Filing is also an available option.
Job Cost
The Sage BusinessWorks Job Cost module provides methods for saving you time and money by accurately estimating and tracking project costs, including labour, materials, equipment, overhead, and more. In addition to a detailed job tracking feature, a wide variety of reports is available in the Job Cost module to help you budget, control, and manage jobs to achieve greater profit potential.
Custom Office (Microsoft Office integration)
Integrate your Sage BusinessWorks with Microsoft Office using this module, and you'll significantly increase your company's productivity. The module offers targeted mail merge, attachment management, and custom worksheet capabilities that put your Sage BusinessWorks information to work for you.
Sage BusinessWorks ACT! Link
The Sage BusinessWorks ACT! Link seamlessly synchronizes the ACT! and Sage BusinessWorks databases for increased customer loyalty and vendor responsiveness. You'll be able to launch Sage BusinessWorks tasks from within ACT! to issue sales orders, to perform customer inquiries, or to view detailed orders and invoices.

 

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System manager

Sage BusinessWorks 50 Accounting software gives you the power to run your growing business and maximize profitability. Offering features usually found in systems costing thousands of dollars more, this dynamic system puts critical business information at your fingertips. If you're looking for an accounting solution that provides extensive reporting capabilities, unmatched ease of use, and the ability to grow with your business, then Sage BusinessWorks is the accounting software for you.

System Manager Highlights

  • • Quick access to Microsoft Office® applications, the Internet, and the Sage BusinessWorks Services Centre
  • • Intuitive navigation functionality using status bars, menus and shortcuts
  • • Automatic launch of the modules and tools that you use most often
  • • Flexible, customizable search fields for virtually any information based on specific criteria

Ultimately, it is the software's easy navigation and workflow that draw the appreciation of customers. With a familiar Microsoft Windows look and feel, Sage BusinessWorks is so easy to learn that virtually anyone, even those with little or no accounting experience, can operate the software.
Moving from task to task is easy, and you can access data with a simple keystroke or mouse click. By operating with such a high degree of efficiency, your company can more easily achieve its financial goals. Many of its time-saving features are unique to Sage BusinessWorks. By investing in Sage BusinessWorks, you can rest assured that your company will be utilizing some of the most advanced accounting technology available.

General ledger

Maintain current financial information, as well as transaction history and budget information for up to nine fiscal years, using the Sage BusinessWorks General Ledger module, which combines flexibility with ease of use.

General Ledger Highlights

  • • Complete audit trails of transactions and adjustments
  • • Extensive inquiry capabilities to examine account status
  • • Departmentalized accounting with up to 999 departments
  • • Automatic budget calculation for faster budget setup

The General Ledger module maintains current financial information, as well as transaction history and budget information for up to nine fiscal years. This module also allows a virtually unlimited number of accounts in the chart of accounts, each with up to 999 departments. This powerful module not only organizes all of your financial information from your other Sage BusinessWorks modules, it can also combine information from multiple companies into a single consolidation company for Top Level financial reports.
Accurate financial statements and associated reports generated by a general ledger system are critical for timely decision making.
Therefore, it is imperative that a general ledger system be powerful, flexible, and informative to management, yet still be easy to use and operate. With Sage BusinessWorks, you can rest assured that your crucial accounting information is precise and accessible whenever and wherever you need it.

Cash Management

The Cash Management module for Sage BusinessWorks Accounting provides superior management capabilities for your company's cash transaction processing and reconciliation needs. This module fully integrates with the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and General Ledger modules to offer a comprehensive accounting software solution. Additionally, Cash Management integrates with Sage Payroll Services for businesses that choose to outsource their payroll.

Cash Management Highlights:

  • • Complete audit trails of all cash transactions and adjustments for better financial control
  • • Extensive inquiry capabilities, including drill downs to the source of original transactions
  • • Account information exporting into other programs for analysis, forecasting, presentations, and reports

Among the most important timesaving features of the Cash Management module is its full bank reconciliation capabilities. This includes the ability to reconcile bank transactions from the Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and Accounts Payable modules to your organization's bank statements and to the general ledger.
Cash Management is also capable of generating checks to payees not defined in Accounts Payable or Payroll.
Increased profit is a paramount goal for businesses of any size. Achieving that goal means more informed decisions and managing your company's finances more effectively.
The Cash Management module provides current balances and calculated future balances for all cash accounts through a variety of detailed reports. Reconciliation reports include summary information for deposits, consolidation of all check register information, and general ledger distribution bank transaction information. With the Sage BusinessWorks Cash Management module, you can make better business decisions and drive your company to increased profit.

Accounts payable

The Accounts Payable module for Sage BusinessWorks Accounting efficiently manages your company's expenditures, saving you time and money. This advanced module stores, sorts, and organizes vendor information and transactions. The Accounts Payable module then uses the information to produce a wide range of reports, including graphical reports, which present you with three-dimensional representations of your purchase history and much more.

Accounts Payable Highlights:

  • • Complete vendor contact and order information available through powerful search functionality
  • • New vendors and General Ledger accounts added on the fly during transaction entry
  • • Flexible payment terms
  • • Accurate expense tracking, including credit card purchases and history

Save valuable time with the Accounts Payable module, which dates your open invoices so you can easily discern how old they are, displays the amount of cash needed to pay the invoices, and suggests the best day to pay each invoice. You can also use Accounts Payable to take advantage of any early payment discounts offered to your company. The module can be set up to make automated invoice payments prior to the discount expiration dates, saving you money.
Aside from operating seamlessly with General Ledger, the Accounts Payable module also integrates with other Sage BusinessWorks modules for a smoother transition of information.
For example, when used in conjunction with the Job Cost module, Accounts Payable provides effortless tracking of project opportunities. And when you set up cash accounts in Cash Management, the Accounts Payable module updates these accounts with check information so you can accurately reconcile your accounts. You can also post invoices to the Accounts Payable module from the Inventory Control module when receiving purchase orders. This seamless information flow between modules not only saves time by eliminating double entry, but it also suits the unique needs of today's widely varying companies with a series of profit-increasing accounting capabilities.

Accounts Receivable

The Sage BusinessWorks Accounts Receivable module provides an efficient and reliable means of managing your entire receivables process. From credit management to sales analysis, this powerful module provides your organization with extensive information and reporting features to make quicker business decisions.

Accounts Receivable Highlights:

  • • Complete customer contact information and order history available through powerful search functionality
  • • Accounts receivable information exported for analysis, forecasting, presentations, and reports
  • • Customer credit put on immediate hold until all outstanding issues are resolved

The Accounts Receivable module provides an efficient and organized system for maintaining customer information, which, in turn, can lead to improved customer service and profitability. The easy-to-use yet comprehensive customer maintenance features allow you to maintain your customers' e-mail addresses, bill-to and ship-to addresses, month- and year-to-date totals, current balance, open credits, deposits, and last payment information. You will also be able to prepare customer statements on demand automatically. Plus, with a series of additional time-saving features and reporting options, the Accounts Receivable module streamlines your entire receivables process.
In addition to working in conjunction with the Sage BusinessWorks General Ledger module, the Accounts Receivable module integrates with the Order Entry, Job Cost, Custom Office, and Cash Management modules. This module makes the accounting process efficient, saving your company time and money.

Inventory Control and Purchasing

The Inventory Control system offers comprehensive reporting capabilities to keep you on top of inventory status. It can help you bring about the creation of new or improved purchasing policies, sales policies, pricing methods, and even enhanced customer service. By leveraging Sage BusinessWorks, you have the tools to create an inventory system with the depth to meet your company's needs for years to come.

Inventory Control and Purchasing Highlights

  • • Complete physical inventory with up to 60-month history tracked for up to 99 warehouses
  • • Complete part information including images, quantity, vendor, substitute items, and components
  • • Instant inquiry of part information, including receipts, issues, returns, and adjustments

Improved customer service leads to increased profitability. And, when integrated with the Accounts Receivable and Order Entry modules, Inventory Control can significantly boost your customer service levels while operating as the cornerstone of an effective manufacturing or distribution solution. For more complex project management, Inventory Control can be coupled with the Job Cost module to help track all inventory-related expenses for a project. Inventory tracking is enhanced even more when integrated with the Custom Office module, which creates detailed spreadsheets to provide further analysis of inventory performance.
Successful, well-organized businesses rely heavily on inventory management systems to make certain that adequate inventory levels are on hand to satisfy their customer demand. The Inventory Control module for the Sage BusinessWorks Accounting system provides this level of control by offering high-end features normally reserved for large companies, including light manufacturing capabilities, serial number tracking, and multi-warehouse support. Inventory Control even features an image library that allows you to assign a picture to each part.
Packaged to provide your business with an abundance of features at an affordable price, Sage BusinessWorks Purchase Order is included with the Inventory Control module at no additional charge. For more information on how Purchase Order can help your business operate more smoothly, please review the Purchase Order specification sheet.

Order Entry

When it comes to selling, it helps to have as much information about the customer and your products as possible. With the Order Entry module for Sage BusinessWorks Accounting, your company's sales staff can easily access a variety of useful customer information, including past purchase histories, shipping addresses, credit card information, and much more. In addition, Order Entry can be set up to alert your sales staff when a customer exceeds a credit limit. A hold can then be put on the order until the customer's standing with your organization improves. All this while processing quotes, sales orders, and invoices! Simply put, Sage BusinessWorks Order Entry can increase sales efficiency and, in turn, lead to greater success.

Order Entry Highlights:

  • • Complete customer contact information and order history available through powerful search functionality
  • • Accounts receivable information exported for analysis, forecasting, presentations, and reports
  • • Customer credit put on immediate hold until all outstanding issues are resolved

When you integrate Order Entry with the Inventory Control module, Sage BusinessWorks becomes a complete distribution solution. Your staff will have the ability to view the status of parts, including the on-hand, on-order, and committed quantities. With all this information at their fingertips, your sales force will be able to close deals more effectively leading to increased profitability. Plus, if there isn't a sufficient quantity on hand, the software will recommend a substitute. It even displays a picture of the part or item for improved order accuracy. Integrate Order Entry with Inventory Control and boost your sales performance.
Note: The Accounts Receivable module is required when using Order Entry, and the Inventory Control module is strongly recommended

Job Cost

Save time and money by accurately estimating and tracking project costs, including labor, materials, equipment, overhead, and more. A wide variety of reports is available to help you budget, control, and manage jobs to achieve greater profit potential.

Job Cost Highlights:

  • • Instant inquiry of job and customer information, including billing and payments
  • • Fixed or calculated prices assigned to jobs based on cost-plus-profit percentage or cost-plus-fixed amount
  • • Estimates for job phase and total job cost calculated automatically

The tracking feature of the Job Cost module gives you pinpoint details regarding every job and project so that you can make informed decisions and more effectively manage internal and external projects. You'll also be able to compare actual costs with estimated costs throughout all the stages of your projects. This ensures that expenses fall within your budget and you generate profit from every job.

Custom Office

When integrated with Microsoft Office® the Sage BusinessWorks Custom Office module can significantly increase your company's productivity. The module offers mail merge, attachment management, and custom worksheet capabilities that put your Sage BusinessWorks information to work for you. This allows your employees to do their jobs more efficiently, which can lead to increased revenue.

Custom Office Highlights:

  • • Customized mailings targeted to customers, vendors and employees using Microsoft Word
  • • Professional templates set up once and modified as needed
  • • Images, documents, and multimedia files attached directly to General Ledger entries
  • • Linking and embedding supported

Microsoft Office is the industry leader when it comes to business productivity tools. Sage BusinessWorks provides small businesses with an award-winning accounting solution. That's why it makes sense to integrate these two software solutions using the Custom Office module. You'll be able to take advantage of the extensive features within both products and generate the spreadsheets, documents, e-mails, and mailings that you need to produce to gain valuable business insights, increase productivity, and maximize your company's profitability.
The Mail Merge component of the Custom Office module enables effortless creation of mailings. You can quickly create and send personalized documents to your customers, vendors, and employees.
By allowing you to attach multiple objects such as wave form audio (WAV) files, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and bitmaps to each Sage BusinessWorks record, the Attachment Manager lets you create a paperless office. Finally, the Sage BusinessWorks Custom Office module allows you to create custom worksheets using your Sage BusinessWorks data and the Microsoft Excel application. An intuitive, built-in wizard automatically extracts your accounting data and places it into Excel.

 

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Sage BusinessWorks ACT! Link

In today's highly competitive business environment, it is of paramount importance to cultivate and maintain the best possible customer and vendor relationships. To help you achieve that goal, Sage Software has teamed two of its leading applications, ACT! by Sage and Sage BusinessWorks, to provide a well-rounded solution that will help you maintain customer loyalty and vendor responsiveness. With comprehensive receivables and payables functionality at your disposal, you will have the tools to enjoy profitable customer and vendor relationships for the long term.

ACT! Link Highlights:

  • • Data synchronized between the ACT! database and the Sage BusinessWorks database
  • • Sage BusinessWorks tasks launched from within ACT! for automatic accounting information updates
  • • Launch of Sage BusinessWorks Accounts Receivable maintains customers and invoices in ACT!
  • • Launch of Order Entry module maintains quotes and sales orders, and performs direct invoicing as well as quote, sales order, and invoice inquiries

With the Sage BusinessWorks ACT! Link, you are assured of seamless integration that will help your company achieve greater efficiency and productivity. For instance, users operating within ACT! can issue sales orders, perform customer inquiries, or view detailed orders and invoices. In effect, the two products allow you to connect the two halves of your business your business - front office, which includes your sales force, and the heart of your business, your accounting system.
In addition, bidirectional data transfer is available throughout the system, further boosting efficiency companywide. The Sage BusinessWorks ACT! Link serves as a complete front office-back office solution that can elevate your company to the next level of profitability.

Sage Support and Services

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Support and assurance for times when you need a software expert-flexible plans designed to meet individual needs.

At Sage, our Customer Support Center provides easy-to-use self-service tools, technical documentation, and other valuable resources to assist you in finding answers fast.
Support Plans
Your Sage BusinessWorks Accounting system is the cornerstone of your business and is essential to your success. Sage BusinessWorks ClientCare plans maximize your software investment by giving you access to the technical expertise you need to keep your system running smoothly. We offer three levels of annual ClientCare plans designed with the most frequently requested service options in mind. You get peace of mind knowing your system and business can continue to grow smoothly and prosper into the future with the latest enhancements to Sage BusinessWorks, timely answers to your technical questions and access to training to ensure your business is maximizing your investment and returns.
Customer Referral and Reference Program
Nothing compares to the credibility that Sage customers can provide when discussing business successes with their peers. To this end, Sage offers two programs to help spread the word and reward our satisfied customers.
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Support Plans

Your accounting system is the cornerstone of your business, and essential to your success. Sage's ClientCare Plans provide you with the technical expertise you need to keep your accounting system running smoothly. Sage offers three annual ClientCare Plans that are designed with the most frequently requested service options in mind. You get peace of mind knowing your system and business can continue to grow smoothly and prosper into the future with the latest enhancements to BusinessWorks, timely answers to your technical questions and access to training to ensure your business is maximizing your investment in Sage BusinessWorks and ensure your business is running its best.

Sage BusinessWorks Support Plans.

ClientCare plans provide outstanding maintenance and product support for your Sage BusinessWorks software. Simply select the plan (Gold, Silver, or Bronze) that best suits your business needs. You’ll gain fast, convenient access to Sage Software Online, our award-winning online support knowledgebase, our world-class phone support team, automatic technology system upgrades, incremental software maintenance releases, and tax table updates for Payroll module customers.

The most comprehensive plan available is the Gold plan, a total support solution for companies that desire to get the maximum return from their Sage BusinessWorks Accounting system. This plan offers unlimited, toll-free phone support, e-Learning, Tech Thursday Courses, and Business Building Courses, along with two Private Tutor Sessions-personalized online training designed to meet your specific needs. The Silver plan offers a limited number of toll-free telephone support cases, Webcasts, and/or Private Tutor sessions. And the Bronze plan is ideal for companies requiring limited support, allowing them all available service upgrades with limited support and training options.

As a leading provider of business management software, Sage is deeply committed to ensuring your total satisfaction through world-class products and support services. As a result of our efforts, Sage has achieved Support Center Practices (SCP) certification for nine consecutive years and was inducted into the Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Hall of Fame by the Service & Support Professional Association (SSPA)-further evidence of our commitment to you, our valued customers.

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Annual maintenance and feature upgrades

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Enhanced tax reporting

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Discounts on compatible checks and forms purchases

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Service pack updates

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Discounts in training at participating locations

 

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Unlimited e-Learning Webcasts

 

 

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Gold Plan - Annual Support Agreement
Gold Plan: This is the total support solution if you rely on Sage BusinessWorks to help you run your business.

The plan includes automatic software upgrades, tax table updates for your payroll system, and unlimited access to award-winning online support services plus you'll have an unlimited number of high-priority calls with our technical support staff using a toll-free exclusive priority phone number, two private tutoring sessions, as well as unlimited access to available learning and support tools and discounts on our most requested programs to help improve your business.

  • • Expert telephone, e-mail and fax assistance for an unlimited number of cases.
  • • Exclusive priority toll-free telephone service with a guaranteed one-hour response time.*
  • • 15% discount on Sage BusinessWorks training at Sage facilities and participating authorized training centres.
  • • Unlimited Tech Thursday Realtime Learning Courses.
  • • Unlimited Business Building Realtime Learning Courses.
  • • Two Private Tutor Sessions

Silver Plan - Annual Support Agreement
Silver Plan: The plan includes automatic software upgrades, tax table updates for your payroll system, and unlimited access to award-winning online support services plusthe Silver Plan gives you discounts on training as well as ten points to be used toward your choice of Webcasts, support calls, up to two Private Tutor sessions, or a combination of these valuable learning and support tools.
The Silver Plan provides you with the following benefits::

  • • Expert telephone, e-mail and fax assistance.
  • • Toll-free telephone service with a guaranteed one-business-day response time.
  • • Tech Thursday Realtime Learning Courses (1 point each)
  • • Business Building Realtime Learning Courses (1 point each)
  • • Private Tutor Sessions (3 points each, up to 2 per year)
  • • Support Cases (1 point each)

Bronze Plan - Annual Maintenance Agreement
This software maintenance plan is designed to protect your investment and is essential for every customer. The plan includes automatic software upgrades, tax table updates for your payroll system, and unlimited access to awardwinning online support services. The Bronze Plan also includes two points to be used toward your choice of Webcasts, support calls, or a combination of these valuable learning and support tools.

  • Tech Thursday Realtime Learning Courses (1 point each)
  • Business Building Realtime Learning Courses (1 point each)
  • Support Cases (1 point each)

Sage BusinessWorks Gold plan

This is the total support solution if you demand the highest degree of interaction with the Sage support team and place heavy demands on your accounting system.
The Sage BusinessWorks Gold Plan includes

  • • Maintenance and feature upgrades to your current modules as they are released. These upgrades offer significant new functionality so you always have the most current version of Sage BusinessWorks with the most recent features and integrations.
  • • Unlimited access to Sage Online, our award-winning online support system, the same knowledgebase the Sage support analysts use. This access includes the Sage BusinessWorks Knowledgebase, a comprehensive, searchable online technical resource library that contains valuable software tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice.
  • • 25%* discount on Sage BusinessWorks-compatible checks and other business forms.
  • • Enhanced tax reporting. Streamline your tax filing process and save money by automatically populating more than 250 federal and state payroll tax forms using your Sage BusinessWorks data. Just edit, print, and sign! Forms include 941, 940, 4-up W-2s, W-3, state tax forms, new hire reports, and more. Enhanced 1099 reporting also produces 1099 Miscellaneous forms.
  • • Just edit, print, and sign! Forms include 941, 940, 4-up W-2s, W-3, state tax forms, new hire reports, and more. Enhanced 1099 reporting also produces 1099 Miscellaneous forms.
  • • Proactive e-mail notifications. Register your e-mail address, and you'll receive technical bulletins, program updates, and product fixes that will help maintain the reliability and efficiency of your software.
  • • Training discounts on Sage BusinessWorks at participating locations.
  • • eFiling of state and federal tax forms and payments1.
  • • Unlimited Tech Thursday RealTime Learning Courses - These training Webcasts will help you learn how to get the most from BusinessWorks as well as show you how to use the latest enhancements.
  • • Unlimited Business Building RealTime Learning Courses - Webcasts designed to provide insight into various functional areas across your business.
  • • Unlimited Support Cases - Whether you have a technical support question or want to know how to use a feature, our award winning support team can answer your questions.
  • • Two Private Tutor Sessions - Personalized, interactive online training sessions designed to meet your specific training requirements.

* First order is a 25% discount and subsequent orders are 20% discount.
1Available from within your Sage BusinessWorks software, this service is provided by Aatrix eFile Service and additional fees apply.

Sage BusinessWorks Silver Plan

This plan is ideal if you're familiar with Sage BusinessWorks and do not rely on Sage BusinessWorks in your day-to-day operations.
The Sage BusinessWorks Silver Plan includes:.

  • • Maintenance and feature upgrades to your current modules as they are released. These upgrades offer significant new functionality so you always have the most current version of Sage BusinessWorks with the most recent features and integrations.
  • • Unlimited access to Sage Online, our award-winning online support system, the same knowledgebase the Sage support analysts use. This access includes the Sage BusinessWorks Knowledgebase, a comprehensive, searchable online technical resource library that contains valuable software tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice.
  • • Discounts on Sage BusinessWorks-compatible checks and other business forms*.
  • • Enhanced tax reporting. Streamline your tax filing process and save money by automatically populating more than 250 federal and state payroll tax forms using your Sage BusinessWorks data. Just edit, print, and sign! Forms include 941, 940, 4-up W-2s, W-3, state tax forms, new hire reports, and more. Enhanced 1099 reporting also produces 1099 Miscellaneous forms.
  • • Proactive e-mail notifications. Register your e-mail address, and you'll receive technical bulletins, program updates, and product fixes that will help maintain the reliability and efficiency of your software.
  • • eFiling of state and federal tax forms and payments1
  • • Training discounts at participating locations
  • • Ten annual points, which can be used for any of the following:
    • • Tech Thursday Realtime Learning Courses (one point each) - These training Webcasts will help you learn how to get the most from BusinessWorks as well as show you how to use the latest enhancements.
    • • Business Building Realtime Learning Courses (one point each) - Webcasts designed to provide insight into various functional areas across your business.
    • • Support Cases** (one point each) - Whether you have a technical support question or want to know how to use a feature, our award winning support team can answer your questions.
    • • Private Tutor (three points each, up to two sessions per year) - Personalized, interactive online training sessions designed to meet your specific training requirements.

.Please Note: Points not used during the plan year may NOT be carried over.
*Compatible Checks & Forms Discount - 25% discount applies to your first purchase of Checks & Forms only. All subsequent orders will be given a 20% discount.
**A case is a request for assistance on a single issue. On your initial call, the analyst will give you a case number. Please refer to this case number when you require further assistance directly related to this issue.
1Available from within your Sage BusinessWorks software, this service is provided by Aatrix eFile Service and additional fees apply.

Sage BusinessWorks Bronze Plan

A basic plan is essential for every Sage BusinessWorks customer. The Bronze Plan provides discounts, automatic updates to your accounting system, and access to Sage Online.
The Sage BusinessWorks Bronze plan includes:

  • • Maintenance and feature upgrades to your current modules as they are released. These upgrades offer significant new functionality so you always have the most current version of Sage BusinessWorks with the most recent features and integrations.
  • • Unlimited access to Sage Online, our award-winning online support system, the same knowledgebase the Sage support analysts use. This access includes the Sage BusinessWorks Knowledgebase, a comprehensive, searchable online technical resource library that contains valuable software tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice.
  • • Discounts on Sage BusinessWorks-compatible checks and other business forms*.
  • • Enhanced tax reporting. Streamline your tax filing process and save money by automatically populating more than 250 federal and state payroll tax forms using your Sage BusinessWorks data. Just edit, print, and sign! Forms include 941, 940, 4-up W-2s, W-3, state tax forms, new hire reports, and more. Enhanced 1099 reporting also produces 1099 Miscellaneous forms.
  • • Proactive e-mail notifications. Register your e-mail address, and you'll receive technical bulletins, program updates, and product fixes that will help maintain the reliability and efficiency of your software.
  • • eFiling of state and federal tax forms and payments1
  • • Two annual points, which can be used for any of the following:
    • • Tech Thursday Realtime Learning Courses (one point each) - These training Webcasts will help you learn how to get the most from BusinessWorks as well as show you how to use the latest enhancements.
    • • Business Building Realtime Learning Courses (one point each) - Webcasts designed to provide insight into various functional areas across your business.
    • • Support Cases** (one point each) - Whether you have a technical support question or want to know how to use a feature, our award winning support team can answer your questions.

*Please Note: Points not used during the plan year may NOT be carried over.
*Compatible Checks & Forms Discount - 25% discount applies to your first purchase of Checks & Forms only. All subsequent orders will be given a 20% discount.
**A case is a request for assistance on a single issue. On your initial call, the analyst will give you a case number. Please refer to this case number when you require further assistance directly related to this issue.
1Available from within your Sage BusinessWorks software, this service is provided by Aatrix eFile Service and additional fees apply.