Upgrade Your Data from an Earlier Version of Sage 50 Accounting
Before you can perform this task
- Make sure all the accounts balance.
To upgrade your data from an earlier version of Sage 50 Accounting:
- Upgrade your data
either:
- By opening your company data from the Select a Company window when Sage 50 Accounting starts.
- From within Sage 50 Accounting (go to the Home window and choose Open a Company from the File menu).
- Open the folder that contains your old data file and select the file you want to upgrade. If you have a sysadmin password, enter it and click OK.
- In the Upgrade Company window, you can see the file's current Sage 50 Accounting version or release, file name, and file path.
- (Optional) You can select the option to make a backup copy of your data. If you have already done this, clear the check box.
- Click Start. Your upgraded data opens automatically in the new version of Sage 50 Accounting.
Note: If your client has the required licence, you can also upgrade existing client data to a new version of Sage 50 Accounting.