1. Open Sage 50 Accounts.
2. In the Add a Company window click Create.
3. Click Continue then enter your software Serial number, Activation key and Account number.
   You can find these on your order confirmation email.
4. Click Next, then to confirm your licence, click OK and click OK.
5. To create your new company, enter your details, clicking Next on each window.
6. Once you've entered all your details, in the Summary window click Create.
7. Enter your manager Password you created during the process then click OK.

Once you've installed the software where you want your data to be, you can install at your other locations using the installation steps above. 

As long as your company data is shared over a network that you have access to, you can connect to it.

Before you begin

Gather the information you need to connect to the data:

1. Open Sage 50 Accounts, log in as manager then click Help, then click About.
2. Under Licence Information note your Serial Number, Activation Key and Account number.
3. Under Program Details, note your Data Directory and Version Number.

Connect to the data

NOTE: When you first open Sage 50 Accounts you're prompted to enter your serial number, activation key and if required your account number. 

1. Open Sage 50 Accounts.
2. Click Connect, then click Browse and go the Data Directory you made a note of earlier. 
   
   TIP: Your data path should be in the format of a UNC path, for example \\server\sage\accounts. For more information on this, see our guide here >  
   
   
3. Click Continue, then click Connect.
4. Enter your Logon name and Password then click OK.

If your data is from an older version you're prompted to update the data. If you need to add another company you can click File, New then click Company.

Great news You're now ready to start using Sage 50 Accounts on your new computer. We recommend you run the Check Data option again. Let us know if you found this guide helpful by using the feedback options below.

If you took a backup of your company data on another computer, you can restore this backup to recreate your existing company on this new computer.

1. Open Sage 50 Accounts.
2. In the Add a Company window click Restore.
3. Click Browse, then browse to the path of your backup, then click Open.
4. Click Continue then enter your software Serial number, Activation key and Account number.
   You can find these on your order confirmation email.
5. Click Next, then to confirm your licence, click OK and click OK.
6. Click Restore and enter your Logon name and Password then click OK.

You're now logged into your restored company data.

As long as the company data you want to access has been set up for Remote Data Access, you can access it remotely from the computer that you've installed Sage 50 Accounts on.

To do this, just follow the steps in our guide, Connect remotely from another machine.