Installing Sage 50 has been improved with a more streamlined installation wizard. In a typical install, you're guided through 5 easy steps that provide clearer options and more intuitive instructions.

Avoid any payment discrepancies by notifying your vendor whenever you make a direct deposit to their bank account. You have the option to email a direct deposit stub to your vendor after you record an electronic payment in Sage 50.

If you do business in US dollars and have customers who prefer to be billed in US dollars, you can now record, process, and track credit card payments in US dollars in Sage 50. In this way, Sage 50 not only allows you to accommodate your customer needs, these transactions are also recorded more accurately when they are in a single currency. Integrated with Sage Payment Solutions, you can also switch between multiple Sage Payment Solutions accounts and choose to process foreign credit card payments in a Canadian dollar or US dollar merchant account.

This version of the Sage 50 Business Intelligence includes the Report Designer, a Microsoft® Excel® add-in that expands the existing functionality of the Report Manager.The Report Designer allows the novice user to generate financial reports more easily and decreases the need for manual cut-and-paste.

In addition, Sage 50 Business Intelligence provides a user-friendly way to create or modify the layouts of these reports to suit your reporting needs. To access the Report Designer, on the Reports menu, select Sage 50 Business Intelligence, Designer Reports, and then Financial Reports Designer.

Get your business intelligence reports when you need it, even when you're away from your desk. With Sage 50 Business Intelligence, you can easily share reports by email, FTP, or web publishing, and also set up rules so that you only receive reports when you want to.

The Trends Forecast dashboard illustrates your company's projected performance in a set of four graphs, and provides trend forecasts of your business' key performance data or indicators (KPIs). Based on your company's historical data, the Trends Forecast dashboard maps out the trends it finds in your company's data. The dashboard is easily accessible in the program and allows you to adjust your plans quickly to changes in your business.

When you need to verify the information on a posted paycheque or if you need to make a correction, you can look up and display the paycheque quickly using the Look Up tool. In the payroll journal, you can look up and make corrections to paycheques made in the current and previous year. You can also bring up individual paycheques by drilling down in the payroll reports.

Employers are required to record the employee's work history on a Record of Employment (ROE) form, including the employee's insurable vacation hours. To comply with this requirement, Sage 50 Accounting 2013 records and tracks the number of total insurable vacation hours taken

If you print and file your RL-1 slips by mail, Revenu Quebec requires you to print 2D barcodes on copy 1 of the RL-1 slips. To be compliant with Revenu Quebec, Sage 50 enables you to print the 2D barcodes on the RL-1 slips when you select the plain paper form type.

This new feature makes it convenient for employers to record a post-dated paycheque in a new year, and make your records more accurately reflect your business process. Instead of making multiple manual entries, you can now record paycheques in the Payroll journal and date them in the next calendar year without closing off the current fiscal year. You can also look up these paycheques to make corrections at any time.

The QST Update wizard helps Quebec customers convert easily by updating their QST tax and tax codes to the new rate and new basis of calculation.

The BC PST Update wizard helps B.C. clients convert easily by creating a new PST tax and new tax codes that include GST and PST.

The HST Update Wizard helps PEI clients convert easily to the new HST by creating new tax codes.