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Sage 50 Accounting—Canadian Edition
(Release 2018.3)

This product update covers all product solutions of Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.3) and includes the updates from previous releases.

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Government compliance

Payroll tax updates for July 1, 2018

If you have a support plan that includes payroll tax updates, you benefit from timely and comprehensive in-house payroll processing within Sage 50 Accounting to help you save time and reduce the risk of payroll tax penalties at year-end.

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Sage 50 Accounting—Canadian Edition (Release 2018.2)

This product update covers all product solutions of Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.2) and includes the updates from previous releases.

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Sage 50cloud solutions

Sage Bank Feeds

Sage Bank Feeds makes it easy to keep the books accurate & up-to-date.Save time by automatically downloading bank/credit card transactions into Sage 50. Reduce the risk for error and say goodbye to manual reconciliation with paper statements.

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Sage Intelligence

Through the Office 365 integration1 Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium is required. , Sage Intelligence provides Sage 50cloud customers with additional reporting options online. Along with an updated user interface for an improved user experience, Sage Intelligence also offers PDF export.

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Sage Capture

Now available for Android, Sage Capture2 Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium is required. lets you capture and document purchases and expenses when you are away from the office. Pics are uploaded to One Drive and then downloaded to your Sage 50cloud company.

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Get paid faster

Invoice Payments

Invoice Payments makes creating and sending professional invoices fast and easy.

After a quick and hassle-free setup, you can help your customers pay you online by emailing invoices with a pay now link. Save time by reconciling payments into your accounts. It's that easy. Now you can focus on what really matters, growing your business.

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Improved experience

Match Bank Transactions

Transaction matching has been further enhanced with additional options when creating missing transactions.

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Easy access to Office 365 Integration

With just a click, you can now access our cloud and mobile offerings that are included with Office 365 Integration on the Cloud & Mobile pane.

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Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.1)

This product update covers all product solutions of Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.1) and includes the updates from previous releases.

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Improved experience

Match Bank Transactions

  • Enter missing transactions easily and breeze through reconciliation routines with matching (automatic and manual) of bank transactions from imported transactions. Stay on top of your records with a simple report that shows the bank transactions that are matched or unmatched with your accounting records.
  • Save time and minimize the opportunity for errors by matching new transactions from imported statements.

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Sage 50cloud solutions

Microsoft Office 365 integration

User Permissions3 Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium is required.
  • Business builders can now control what employees see in their Sage 50 Microsoft Office 365 apps with User Permissions.
  • Save time by providing team members access to relevant accounting data based on their roles. Gone are the days of sifting through mounds of data - say hello to efficiency!

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Government compliance

eFile T4As

Breeze through filing your T4As4 An active plan that includes T4A forms is required. - Sage 50 now enables companies to electronically file their T4As (permitted for companies with less than 50 contractors. Required for companies with 50 or more contractors).

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Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.0)

This product update covers all product solutions of Sage 50 Accounting (Release 2018.0) and includes the updates from previous releases.

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Sage 50cloud solutions

Microsoft Office 365 integration

Set Synchronization Frequency

Business builders can now set an auto-synchronization schedule to control how frequently Office 3655 Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium is required. and Sage 50 is synchronized for more real-time data. Make better business decisions with more up-to-date information.

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Improved security

Database upgrade

Sage always has your company’s best interest in mind, especially the safety and security of your company data. With this in mind, we have upgraded the Sage 50 Accounting database to MySQL 5.7.18. This new technology gives you peace of mind by improving on both.

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