Sage Instant Business Package is a cost-effective all-in-one business solution to get your sales, accounts and payroll running smoothly in no time.

Sage Instant Accounts (RRP £120) is the leading accounts software for small businesses up to 10 employees and is designed to be an alternative to manual accounting. It helps you manage your finances, customers and suppliers, take care of your cash flow, invoicing, VAT and track money coming in and going out of your business. In addition to this it allows you to submit online HM Revenue & Customs at year end (Required since 2010) and it is packed with advice and help as well as a practice mode and video demos to help avoid mistakes and guide you through the important tasks.

Sage Instant Payroll (RRP £100) is designed to help with your employees' wages without the need to understand the complexities of payroll legislation. You can manage complete employee records, gross and net pay, tax and National Insurance.  It can automatically calculate statutory payments and deductions for you to ensure accuracy. You can even choose how and when to pay your employees.

Sage ACT! 2011 (RRP £190) is a simple, powerful contact management system designed to help with centralising your contact information, organising your diary, track sales leads and manage marketing campaigns.

It's acts like a vital member of your sales and marketing team helping you build business relationships, find new prospects and convert more of them into customers.

Sage Business Advice: also included is Sage HR Advice and Sage Health & Safety Advice which is Sage's online support service designed to help keep your business up to date with the latest legislation.

Sage Instant Accounts

Manage Your Customers

Sage Instant makes it easy to find contact details quickly and easily and see who owes you money and when it’s due. It also integrates with Sage ACT! And when making quotations it allows you to add flexible discounts to win business and record cash sales and till takings with ease.

Manage Your Suppliers

Find your supplier details quickly and easily and record purchase invoices in batches.

Financial Management

Track money going in and out of your business and sent details electronically to your accountant. Prepare and submit VAT returns online, with features for both VAT Cash accounting and Irish VAT cash accounting. Instant also supports audit preparation, and produces profit and loss accounts easily with features to support e-banking and e-payments.

Integration with Microsoft Excel

Allows easy imports from Microsoft Excel formats (including .xls and .xlsx as well as .csv formats) giving you extra flexibility and saving time when transferring existing data.

Credit from an invoice

Easily allows you to create credits against an invoice and reduce the value of an invoice in case of non-delivery or a change in the order. Credit notes can be created from an invoice and are automatically credited against it saving you time and reducing errors.

Managing your business

Sage Instant Accounts helps you keep control of your business with its new barcode and report browser and integration with sage Pay and ACT! The integrated diary and reminders will help to better manage your time and there is a wide range of Sage Additions to help customise the features of your software.

Sage Instant Payroll

• Automatically calculate gross and net pay, tax and National Insurance, in accordance with legislation
• Automatically calculate employees' sick, maternity, paternity and/or adoption pay
• Assign pension scheme details to employees. Deductions are made automatically
• Produce statutory forms, such as P45, P14/P60 and P35
• Record tax credits and student loans for automatic payment and deductions
• Submit Year End returns to HMRC via the Internet, to save time
• Maintain and print individual employee records

Sage ACT!

Target new prospects: Analyse historical sales trends, understand the profile of your best customers and plan effective marketing and sales campaigns

Generate leads: Use existing information or import bought-in data for use in all your communications

Convert leads to sales: Track communications with your prospects, ensuring maximum service levels are maintained through the sales cycle

Track sales opportunities: Plan more effectively by accurately forecasting where you sales are coming from, when they are coming and for how much.

Link to Sage Instant Accounts

Easy customisation: Amend screens and fields to replicate your business processes

Work remotely: Take your contacts with you when you are out of the office

Comprehensive support: Giving you access to Sage's award-winning support via our telephone help line and email.

Recommended hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 1GB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

Minimum hardware

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 700MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

Compatible operating systems:

• Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003

Technical notes:

• Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks, and it only possible to install one copy on a single computer.
• Works with Microsoft Office 2002/XP, 2003 and 2007, but is not yet compatible with Microsoft Office 2010. Please make sure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed
• This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT4 or Windows 2000 operating systems.
• The latest service packs should be installed for your operating system before installing or upgrading Sage products. 32-bit Operating Systems recommended.
• Whilst there are no browser requirements for Sage Software, we recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above for internet access to Sage Support and important Sage updates for your products.
• Some features in Sage Software require an internet connection.

Apple Mac compatibility

Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.