Sage 50
Get powerful, easy-to-use accounting software for small business owners
- Also known as
- sage-50
What is Sage 50?
Sage 50 Cloud is cloud-based accounting software with secure remote access, automatic updates, and real-time collaboration; a desktop version (Sage 50 Desktop) offers the same features in locally installed format.
Sage 50 pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $128.67/mo. Minimum one-year commitment required. Free trial available.
Pro Accounting
Essential cloud accounting for one user
- Cloud-based
- Invoice and bill tracking
- Purchase order and approval
- Expense management
- Automated bank reconciliation
- Reporting
- Inventory management
- Cash flow management
- Job management
- Fraud protection with Sage Security Shield
- Automatic updates and backups
- Real-time collaboration
- Access anytime, anywhere
- Payroll subscription available
Premium Accounting
Everything in Pro, plus advanced budgeting, inventory, multi-company consolidation, and more
- 1-5 users
- Purchase orders and change orders
- Multiple companies
- Advanced budgeting
- Advanced reporting
- Serialized inventory tracking
- Advanced job costing
- Audit trails
Quantum Accounting
Full Sage 50 experience for seamless collaboration between larger accounting teams
- 1-40 users
- Role-based user permissions
- Faster processing
- Order process workflow
- Workflow management
- Project management
What Sage 50 does
The capabilities that matter for accounting software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Double-entry GL
- ✓
- Multi-entity
- Multi-entity
- Multi-currency
- -
- Bank feeds
- Aggregator
- AP automation
- -
- AR / invoicing
- ✓
- Inventory
- ✓
- Fixed assets
- -
- Project accounting
- ✓
- Tax compliance
- -
- Accountant collaboration
- ✓
- Payments capture
- -
- API access
- -
- Deployment
- Hybrid
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
Sage 50 alternatives
Other accounting software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Sage 50, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 75 | 26.00 | 1942.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 18.00 | 1350.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 20.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"inventory":true,"bank_feeds":"aggregator","deployment":"hybrid","ar_invoicing":true,"multi_entity":"multi_entity","double_entry_gl":true,"accountant_collab":true,"project_accounting":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |