June, 2015 Product news, support, and benefits in every issue Sage Impact Less busywork. More real work. The best control center for managing your clients and business, giving you freedom to do the meaningful work you were meant to do. Learn more News and notes Maximum efficiency. Minimum investment. Sage One now has more features and functionality that will help accounting professionals like you. Features include: Cash flow management. Multicurrency invoicing. Expanded reporting and analytics. Choice of accounting method. Quick entries. Ultra-affordable pricing for small businesses. If you haven’t already, sign up for your complimentary access to Sage One Accountant Edition 2 and take advantage of the special pricing available through Sage One Accountant Packs, where your clients can subscribe to Sage One Accounting for as low as $1 per year! 3 Sage Summit 2015 is the premier event for Sage Accountants Network members. Big names are coming to the Big Easy. You’ve read their books. You’ve admired their work. Now hear their thoughts firsthand. We’ve assembled a speaker lineup that includes some of the world’s most influential innovators and sharpest minds. Don’t miss what these heroes of business have to say when they take center stage at Sage Summit 2015. Register now for only $299. We love our accountants and bookkeepers and look forward to seeing you in New Orleans, July 27-30. Register today with your exclusive promo code SAVE500 . Ensure that you select “I am an accountant or bookkeeper in public practice” when completing the registration process. Construction financial management courses —Sage partnered with the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) to bring our members of the Sage Accountants Network timely, relevant education on the construction industry. As part of our partnership with CFMA, Sage Accountants Network members will receive a 40% discount on upcoming CFMA live webcasts. For more information or to register, click the course titles below. How is that “help wanted” sign working out? —June 17, 3 p.m. ET (1 hour) Prevailing wage fringe benefits: a compliance overview —July 8, 3 p.m. ET (1 hour 15 minutes) Sage 50 Accounting 2016 releasing in July The enhancements you and your clients have been waiting for are almost ready! Watch for the Sage 50 product release announcement email in the end of June for more details. New customer subscription offerings Effective June 1, we are offering new subscription plans for new Sage 50—U.S. Edition customers. These plans will provide better payment options for your new clients. Customers new to Sage 50 will have the ability to choose a one-year or two-year subscription plan with up-front payment and preferential pricing. We no longer offer monthly subscriptions to new customers, but instead offer an annual plan with monthly payments. Note: There are no changes for your existing clients currently on a subscription plan. New customers have the option to select from the following subscription offerings: One-year subscription plan Payable in advance Two-year subscription plan Payable in advance One-year subscription plan Monthly payments One-year commitment Autorenews annually Two-year commitment Autorenews biennially One-year commitment Autorenews annually If you have questions about these new annual subscription offerings, please contact us at AccountantsNetwork@Sage.com . Microsoft + GoDaddy + Sage One partner to bring your firm to the cloud As an accounting professional, are you looking to acquire new clients? Are you considering a move to the cloud for some of your clients? Are you looking to grow the solutions you offer your clients in order to better meet their needs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, do we have an amazing deal for you! With the Microsoft + GoDaddy + Sage One bundle of products and services, you get a low cost/ low risk way to test out some of the best online solutions–all for only $100. 4 Here’s what’s included: Sage One Accountant Pack (25 one-year Sage One subscriptions to provide to your clients or use to bring in new clients) 5 One year of access to Microsoft Office 365 (including Word, Excel, Power Point, One Note, and Outlook) 6 $100 of Bing ad credits 7 Your own web domain and professional website support for one year from GoDaddy 8 But wait, if you activate all 25 clients on Sage One within sixty (60) days of purchasing the bundle, Sage will give you the first year of Microsoft Office 365 and GoDaddy for free! 9 You’ll pay just $25 for everything! Learn more about this amazing offer that’s available exclusively to Sage One Accountant Edition accounting professionals. If you’re not already signed up for complimentary access to Sage One Accountant Edition, 10 sign up for your complimentary access today ! Go from number cruncher to trusted advisor With Sage View , you can streamline the business intelligence you provide to clients and turn their data into actionable advice that can lead to more success. By providing these valuable strategic advisory services, you become an even more valued advisor to your clients year round. The best news? Sage View automated this analysis through KPIs and reports that you set up! Sign up for Sage View 11 for $79 per month 12 and we’ll send you a $50 Staples gift card while supplies last. 13 Choose either of these quick and easy ways to take advantage of this offer: Sign up for your complimentary live demo today so we can show you Sage View in action, answer your questions, and then walk you through activation of your Sage View account. Contact us directly by phone at 1-866-749-7243 ext. 330808 and mention promo code C-9424-0181 and we can help get your Sage View account activated. Call us now at 1-866-749-7243 ext. 330808 to become an even more valued advisor to your clients as you expand the services and value you provide. In a recent Sage Accountants Network membership study, 30% of you indicated time management was your biggest business challenge, and 28% identified work-life balance. Are you one of these people? To maintain revenue and increase profitability without stretching yourself too thin by working extra hours and struggling to find more clients, your best course of action might be to raise your rates. Download this complimentary white paper, Work smarter, not harder: raise your rates , to learn how to audit your services so you can get more done in your day. Master Sage Intelligence basics at no cost New to Sage 50 Intelligence Reporting? Learn how to activate and start using it at no cost in our getting started course. Intelligence Reporting pulls real-time data from Sage 50 and delivers it in preformatted financial or operational Microsoft® Excel® report templates–empowering you to create reports at the click of a button! And because the reports are in Excel, you have the freedom to customize them according to your requirements. In this short course we take you through the basics of getting started with Intelligence Reporting. The course includes the four following lessons: Lesson 1: Activating Sage 50 Intelligence Reporting Lesson 2: Running out-of-the-box reports Lesson 3: Customizing the standard report Lesson 4: Excel for beginners Sign up for the course now at no charge! Six handy tips on the Sage Intelligence Report Manager The Sage Intelligence Report Manager allows you to run reports in real time, customize your standard report templates and save your changes, create new reports, sort drill-downs and aggregate your data, as well as automate the distribution of your reports. We’ve put together an e-book with six handy tips on how to use various features of the Report Manager. The tips cover the following topics: Adding parameters Database check/test Automatic data calculation Distributing reports automatically Grouping data Updating reports Download your copy and share it with your customers! Upcoming events Live webcast on Sage One Accountant Edition —throughout June Leadership Education for Accounting Professionals Listening for leaders: ask the question, discover the need, win ($150) —June 11, 9 a.m. ET (3 hours 30 minutes) Fundamentals of strategic pricing (no charge webcast) —June 18, 2 p.m. ET (1 hour) Transforming your business using value added services (no charge webcast) —June 18, 12 p.m. ET (1 hour 30 minutes) Best practices in accounting and finance writing: putting ideas in order ($79) —June 22, 3 p.m. ET (2 hours) Sage Summit 2015, New Orleans, LA —July 27-30 Full list of 2015 events —Trade shows, conferences, and other events throughout 2015 Share this! Save time! Simply copy and paste this into Twitter and share with your clients. #SageSummit 2015 is the premier event for business owners to get and share ideas. Amazing speakers, too! http://sagesummit.com Follow us on Twitter! Missed a newsletter? Here's an archive. May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 Questions? Contact us at AccountantsNetwork@Sage.com or 1-866-565-2726. 1 For accounting professionals only. To receive and maintain access to Sage Impact, you must be an accountant or bookkeeper providing professional accounting or bookkeeping services for multiple fee-paying clients. If at any time Sage determines that you are no longer eligible, your access will be terminated. Third-party and additional Sage apps or services may be subject to fees and separate terms and conditions. 2 For accounting professionals only. To receive and maintain access to Sage One Accountant Edition, you must be an accountant or bookkeeper providing professional accounting or bookkeeping services for multiple fee-paying clients. If at any time Sage determines that you are no longer eligible, your access will be terminated. 3 Must have a Sage One Accountant Edition account. Sage One activation codes included in your Sage One Accountant Pack will expire one (1) year from date of purchase, and no refunds are available for unused activation codes. Sage One activation codes are available for registration by new Sage One customers only and may only be registered once. Upon registration of a Sage One activation code, the customer will be provided a twelve (12)-month subscription to Sage One Accounting Premium from date of registration. Upon expiration of the twelve (12)-month subscription, to maintain access, the customer will be required to enter a valid credit card number (if one is not already on file with Sage) and will be charged the then-current Sage One monthly autorenewing retail price. 4 Bundle offer expires 6/30/15. Offer cannot be combined with any additional offers or discounts. 5 Must have a Sage One Accountant Edition account. Sage One activation codes included in your Sage One Accountant Pack will expire one (1) year from date of purchase, and no refunds are available for unused activation codes. Sage One activation codes are available for registration by new Sage One customers only and may only be registered once. Upon registration of a Sage One activation code, the customer will be provided a twelve (12)-month subscription to Sage One Accounting Premium from date of registration. Upon expiration of the twelve (12)-month subscription, to maintain access, the customer will be required to enter a valid credit card number (if one is not already on file with Sage) and will be charged the then-current Sage One monthly autorenewing retail price. 6 Special offer pricing valid for first year only. Bundle offer includes one .COM, .CO, .NET, or .ORG domain, plus Website Builder Personal Plan, and a Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium account for one user. Up to 4 additional Microsoft Business Premium user accounts can be purchased at the discounted price of $75.00/year. Customer may purchase more than 5 user accounts with this offer, but only the first five seats are discounted. $100 free Bing ad credits for U.S. customers only. Plus ICANN fee of $0.18/year. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, sale, discount or promotion. After initial one year purchase term, products will no longer be sold as a bundle and will renew individually at the then-current rate. For illustrative purposes, current product pricing is as follows: .COM domain = $14.99/year; Website Builder = $71.88/year; Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium = $179.88/year per user. Customer can choose which products in the bundle to renew. Geographic restrictions apply. 7 One promotional credit per customer for a new Microsoft® Advertiser account. Products purchased using a Gift Card or Alipay do not provide eligibility for advertising credits. Offer valid to US residents only, other restrictions apply. View details 8 Special offer pricing valid for first year only. Bundle offer includes one .COM, .CO, .NET, or .ORG domain, plus Website Builder Personal Plan, and a Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium account for one user. Up to 4 additional Microsoft Business Premium user accounts can be purchased at the discounted price of $75.00/year. Customer may purchase more than 5 user accounts with this offer, but only the first five seats are discounted. $100 free Bing ad credits for U.S. customers only. Plus ICANN fee of $0.18/year. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, sale, discount or promotion. After initial one year purchase term, products will no longer be sold as a bundle and will renew individually at the then-current rate. For illustrative purposes, current product pricing is as follows: .COM domain = $14.99/year; Website Builder = $71.88/year; Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium = $179.88/year per user. Customer can choose which products in the bundle to renew. Geographic restrictions apply. 9 Bundle offer expires 7/31/15. Offer cannot be combined with any additional offers or discounts. After purchasing the bundle, to take advantage of the $75.00 reimbursement offer, twenty-five (25) of your Sage One activation codes from your Sage One Accountant Pack must be registered and activated by your clients no later than sixty (60) days from date of purchase of your Sage One Accountant pack (as part of the bundle). Sage One activation codes are available for registration by new Sage One customers only and may only be registered once. Upon verification of registration of twenty-five (25) of your Sage One activation codes within sixty (60) days from date of purchase of your Sage One Accountant Pack (as part of the bundle), Sage will issue you a one-time reimbursement award of $75.00 to cover the first-year costs of Microsoft Office 365 and GoDaddy (as part of the bundle). 10 For accounting professionals only. To receive and maintain access to Sage One Accountant Edition, you must be an accountant or bookkeeper providing professional accounting or bookkeeping services for multiple fee-paying clients. If at any time Sage determines that you are no longer eligible, your access will be terminated. 11 Accounting professionals only. To receive and maintain access to Sage View, you must be an accountant or bookkeeper providing professional accounting or bookkeeping services for multiple fee-paying clients. If at any time Sage determines that you are no longer eligible, your access will be terminated. 12 A valid credit card is required to activate service. To ensure continuous service, your Sage View subscription is an automatically renewing subscription. Subsequent months will be automatically billed to the same credit card each month. 13 Offer expires 6/30/15. Offer valid for new Sage View customers only and cannot be combined with additional offers or discounts. $50 Staples gift card issued after new customer is a paying customer for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. Staples is not a sponsor of this promotion.