SAGE ACCPAC 5.5 BROCHURE

Sage Accpac

Extended Enterprise Suite

Get Competitive
Get Current
Get Empowered

Manage Your Growing Business

Companies today are facing constant pressure to increase profitability, improve
cash flow, reduce costs, and mitigate risk in order to improve financial performance.
Focusing on driving working capital processes is critical in order to achieve these
objectives.

Reduce cost by taking control of general ledger account accessibility with new
functionality. With Version 5.5 the previously optional General Ledger Security func­tionality is now included with the General Ledger module. Controlling accessibility to
your general ledger accounts helps you maintain clean and accurate accounts while
minimizing time-consuming adjustments. Also introduced–16 new sample financial
report templates, including five balance sheet summaries, five financial analysis
statements, a new forecasting statement, and five income statement summaries.
The Sage Accpac 500 Edition now allows you to designate an account as a rollup
account and create multiple levels of account relationships. Rollup accounts can
optionally be printed on many reports.

Cash is king when it comes to the fiscal health of your business. The new Accounts
Receivable Collections Manager functionality in SageCRM can significantly improve
your cash flow by focusing on managing your receivables and help you develop
collection strategies that make effective use of both your human and financial
resources. Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your cash collection process
by centralizing all collections information and providing easy-to-use functionality to
your staff. Go beyond the printed aging report and use more sophisticated calendar
tools to prioritize collection calls, make sure follow-up occurs, escalate accounts,
send automatic e-mails, and more.

Please visit www.SageAccpac.com/Products/New for more information on version 5.5.

A Customer Centered Organization = Customer Loyalty

Satisfied, loyal customers are more profitable and refer other customers to you—all of which
translates into better financial performance. With insight like this, you cannot afford not to
make customer service a top priority! A customer centralized organization is only possible
when customer information is current, easily accessible, and all-inclusive. Version 5.5 intro­duces the Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite—a revolutionary approach to connecting your
front and back offices, dynamically linking processes, information, workflows, and com­munication channels. When you move to version 5.5, you receive the Extended Enterprise
Suite, which includes a user license to SageCRM—helping you create a customer-centered
environment and take customer satisfaction to a new dimension. Get a 360-degree view of
your customers and better manage the life cycle of your customers for higher profitability.

The future holds even more savvy, time-saving tools. Imagine a new reporting tool that
empowers your business to create reports easily from Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise
Suite and quickly analyze information, based on the familiar Microsoft Excel

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applica­tion. You could easily create new reports that allow you to quickly analyze sales, inventory,
purchases, and general ledger trends, and even drill down into detailed transactions!

You are in control with easy-to-use, in-depth financial, operations, and strategic planning
intelligence so that you are always in the know. That’s not all. You save even time with new
features that allow you to navigate and find information in record time. Additionally, you can
better manage your inventory, proficiently manage bank reconciliation, and finish everyday
tasks more quickly. Just imagine what you can do with the extra time once you have these
productivity-boosting features. Of course, these are just a few of the features you can look
forward to in our next release of Sage Accpac Extended Enterprise Suite.

It Keeps Getting Better–
Take a Look!

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v5.5

Be more productive. Be more protable. Upgrade to Sage Accpac v5.5 today!

Maximize your software performance, save time,
and boost productivity

Sage Accpac Software Assurance allows you to maximize your investment by giving you
cost-effective access to version upgrades and regular product updates, along with a free
anytime learning course, online account access, and optional Priority Software Support.

Are you making business decisions by utilizing up-to-date software designed for today’s
economy and competitive environment? The world of business is constantly changing,
so must your business management software. At Sage, we work to continually improve
your user experience by developing new functionality to help you get more out of your
solution. Sage Accpac not only works to improve your user experience, but it also focuses
on what it takes to be agile, integrated, innovative, efficient, and compliant in this evolving
business world.

Ensure Optimal Performance

Minimize downtime and workarounds! By staying current and installing all product
updates and upgrades, you ensure that your software is running at optimal performance.
Version 5.5 introduces vast performance and multiuser environment improvements, allowing
you to conduct everyday tasks in a fraction of the time—freeing you to focus on strategic projects.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

The basic workflow in version 5.5 is virtually identical to what you are used to. We kept
what you liked and simply made it better. Version 5.5 delivers higher quality, along with
a lower total cost of ownership–as many optional products have been included with this
release: SageCRM, Accounts Receivable Collections Manager, expanded functionality
for the 100 and 200 editions, free language translations, and lower priced Microsoft

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SQL user licenses.

Streamline Operations–Unmatched Freedom of Choice Minimize Steps, Ensure Accuracy, and

Improve Your Bottom Line

Better Control and Easier Compliance

Grows with your Business

Sage Accpac is available in three editions: 100, 200, and 500. And since all three editions are
based on the same technology, you can choose the edition that best meets your business
needs now, and easily migrate as your business grows. Version 5.5 further lowers the total cost
of ownership by delivering more functionality in each edition.

Choose the Sage Accpac modules you need

Quickly and painlessly add modules to conduct multinational commerce, perform payroll in-house,
create project budgets, and more, by simply adding the appropriate solutions as you need them.

Online or On-site Deployment

Choose to run Sage Accpac v5.5 on your premises or utilize Sage Accpac Online, hosted over
the Internet and available on a monthly pay-as-you-go subscription basis.

Get What You Need, When You Need It

A Priority Software Support subscription helps you get the most out of your Sage Accpac
software—so that you and your teams can do your best work, every day. For one annual fee,
you receive: Support for an unlimited number of cases, online access to the status and details
of your support cases, payroll tax table updates, unlimited Anytime Interactive training courses,
25% discount on Realtime training courses, and more. To subscribe or get more details, please
call 800-642-7693 or visit: www.SageAccpac.com/Priority

Welcome to the Sage Accpac Community!

The Sage Accpac knowledgebase, support specialists, and fellow users are ready to help! Visit
the community at http://community.sageaccpac.com/ today!

Take Control with Versitile Change Key Utilities

Ensure you are using numbering sequences that make sense for your business and get the
most out of your enterprise-wide reporting and business intelligence. Easily change, combine,
and copy customer, vendor, general ledger, and item numbers while still maintaining historical
transactions. Version 5.5 includes these powerful utilities as part of the core modules.

Proficiently Manage Multi-Currency Revaluations

Empower your company for global enterprise—Version 5.5 introduces the most sophisticated
revaluation treatment on the market today and ensures compliance with currency translation standards
enforced in different countries. With this version, exchange gains and losses are treated as permanent
or temporary, depending on the exchange Gain/Loss Accounting Method in your company profile.

Optimize Cash Flow

Version 5.5 provides the Accounts Receivable Inquiry tool as part of the Accounts Receivable
module, allowing you to provide faster, more informed responses to customer inquiries, gain
quick access to detailed account information, and track detailed notes.

Insight into Distribution Process

Easily view information and generate reports from the operational information in your Sage Accpac
Order Entry, Purchase Orders, and Inventory Control modules. Get the insight you need to
provide superior customer service while streamlining fulfillment operations, as the Ops Inquiry
tool is now included with your Version 5.5 upgrade.

Gain Tighter Control of Inventory

As you know, tracking your inventory by serial and/or lot numbers can dramatically improve
your inventory traceability and allow you to more efficiently manage product recalls, returns,
repairs, and charge-backs. Version 5.5 provides Serial and Lot tracking as one bundle, saving
you money and giving you more flexibility.

More Cost-Effective Payroll Management

Upgrade to Sage Accpac v5.5 from older versions and add years of performance-accelerating enhancements. Here are just a few . . .

Sage Accpac v5.4 Release:

• Over 267 new enhancements

• Better, faster access to information with new reporting

and inquiry tools

• Process improvements that have you whipping through

tactical tasks, leaving more time for analysis and
strategic thinking

• More ways to accommodate your processes,

procedures, and preferences

Sage Accpac v5.3 Release:

• Enhanced Payroll module offers additional report and

time and billing through a Web browser

• More security options, Improved Optional Fields

functionality allows unlimited option fields

Sage Accpac v5.2 Release:

• Global and user-specific security options

• Easily reverse a posted transaction in General Ledger

• Quickly view Customer or Vendor transaction details in the

associated Activity Window

• Select when the costing process is handled–when posted

or Day End Processing in Inventory Control

• Transfer inventory directly and immediately between

locations

• Process improvements in Purchase Order, Accounts

Payable, Order Entry, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger,
and Inventory Control.

Canadian Payroll now lets you utilize the Relevé 1 and T4 electronic filing features without
having to purchase a separate license. In both U.S. and Canadian Payroll you can now
choose between two methods of carrying over employees’ unused accrued vacation, sick,
and banked time to the start of a new accrual period. On the Employee Timecards form,
employees can now enter sick or vacation time taken. The bottom of the form automatically
displays the employee’s total sick and vacation hours taken for that timecard. Enhancements
have been made to overtime calculation in Payroll as well.