Moving Sage 50 onto Sage One Cloud Based
Discussion
Hi all,
My bookkeeper currently uses Sage 50 on her desktop. However myself and co-director really want to be able to have remote access so that we can go in and pull of certain reports etc. I have spoken to Sage and they said Sage One Cloud is what we are after but apparently we can't export all of our accounting files from Sage 50 to this new cloud based system?
Is that correct? It seems mad to me. Has anyone got any experience of this?
My bookkeeper currently uses Sage 50 on her desktop. However myself and co-director really want to be able to have remote access so that we can go in and pull of certain reports etc. I have spoken to Sage and they said Sage One Cloud is what we are after but apparently we can't export all of our accounting files from Sage 50 to this new cloud based system?
Is that correct? It seems mad to me. Has anyone got any experience of this?
Agree with the above. If moving from Sage to Sage forces a conversion you might as well convert to something better.
The fact that Sage 50 is archaic and Sage are dragging their heels building a cloud replacement and can't even work out how to offer a painless migration for their own customer base is shocking.
The fact that Sage 50 is archaic and Sage are dragging their heels building a cloud replacement and can't even work out how to offer a painless migration for their own customer base is shocking.
I am a regular user of Sage 50 and have tried to get Sage Drive work. I had bought an upgrade last autumn, in the main due to what the salesman claimed about the advantages of Sage Drive.
In truth, I should not have bothered. Talking to their telephone support team I was advised not bother with Sage Drive unless my internet connection was consistently and reliably better than a Download of 4 meg an and Upload better than 2meg. Not a huge demand, but better than I have in rural Worcestershire!
I have no experience of Xero software, but I have only heard good reports. If one looks at sageforum.co.uk there are numerous users who have had countless problems with Sage Drive.
Sage are both pricey and appear to have been left behind with their software.
In truth, I should not have bothered. Talking to their telephone support team I was advised not bother with Sage Drive unless my internet connection was consistently and reliably better than a Download of 4 meg an and Upload better than 2meg. Not a huge demand, but better than I have in rural Worcestershire!
I have no experience of Xero software, but I have only heard good reports. If one looks at sageforum.co.uk there are numerous users who have had countless problems with Sage Drive.
Sage are both pricey and appear to have been left behind with their software.
Edited by HRH2009 on Friday 25th August 18:44
As an IT support person I have a customer that uses Sage Line 50 in their office but they want to "cloud it up" so that some of them can work from home, do some of the inputting at another office etc.
I find the materials from Sage very confusing, and the minimum 30-40 minutes on hold waiting, every time I call their support doesn't help either!
So if anyone is able to confirm a few basics for me ...
Sage One is a completely separate product to Line 50, and is entirely cloud based, like Xero etc, but by all accounts is a bit s
t, is that correct?
Line50 has been renamed Line50 Cloud, but it's really still the same clunky Line50 product (where you frequently have to dive in and rename files etc when it goes wrong). Even though they've added Cloud onto the name, if you don't enable any of the cloud functionality, it works like it always has, with one main central installation somewhere and the data shared to the other PCs through an "Accounts" windows share.
When it comes to enabling the Cloud sync features, there seem to be people that talk about Sage Drive, and people that talk about it using OneDrive from Office365. What's the difference between using Sage Drive or O365 OneDrive?
Sage sales seem to want to sell us Office365 Premium for every Sage user (this customer does not have O365 already). Is that really necessary, or would I only need O365 for the users that want to work remotely from the main office? And do I need to buy it through Sage? (I'm very familiar with setting up O365 independent of Sage). I see on the Sage marketing materials they talk about integration of things like O365 contacts with Sage data, but my customer isn't interested in any of that, and as I say doesn't use O365 for their email.
It seems a bit dodgy to have to have Office365, and be forced to take a premium package where the subscription includes things like email and Office Desktop licences that we have covered in other ways, just to be able to use the OneDrive sync component. Which in my experience outside of Sage, isn't too bad these days, but I'm still not sure I'd rely on it for live-syncing accounting data.
Didn't want to start a new thread for this. Thanks for any help ...
I find the materials from Sage very confusing, and the minimum 30-40 minutes on hold waiting, every time I call their support doesn't help either!
So if anyone is able to confirm a few basics for me ...
Sage One is a completely separate product to Line 50, and is entirely cloud based, like Xero etc, but by all accounts is a bit s
t, is that correct?Line50 has been renamed Line50 Cloud, but it's really still the same clunky Line50 product (where you frequently have to dive in and rename files etc when it goes wrong). Even though they've added Cloud onto the name, if you don't enable any of the cloud functionality, it works like it always has, with one main central installation somewhere and the data shared to the other PCs through an "Accounts" windows share.
When it comes to enabling the Cloud sync features, there seem to be people that talk about Sage Drive, and people that talk about it using OneDrive from Office365. What's the difference between using Sage Drive or O365 OneDrive?
Sage sales seem to want to sell us Office365 Premium for every Sage user (this customer does not have O365 already). Is that really necessary, or would I only need O365 for the users that want to work remotely from the main office? And do I need to buy it through Sage? (I'm very familiar with setting up O365 independent of Sage). I see on the Sage marketing materials they talk about integration of things like O365 contacts with Sage data, but my customer isn't interested in any of that, and as I say doesn't use O365 for their email.
It seems a bit dodgy to have to have Office365, and be forced to take a premium package where the subscription includes things like email and Office Desktop licences that we have covered in other ways, just to be able to use the OneDrive sync component. Which in my experience outside of Sage, isn't too bad these days, but I'm still not sure I'd rely on it for live-syncing accounting data.
Didn't want to start a new thread for this. Thanks for any help ...
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