It's useful to see exactly what a feature does before you use it in your live company. That's why Sage 50 Accounts has two extra areas where you can try out features and practice tasks without affecting your live data.

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Your company data

 NOTE: You can't back up and restore data from Demodata to your live company data. 

This is your live company accounts. Any transactions you post here affect your day-to-day accounts and reports.

Demonstration Data

The Demonstration Data provides an example company, complete with records and transactions, so you can explore the capabilities of your software. Like the Practice Data, the Demonstration Data is independent of your live accounts, so any postings you make here don't affect your live data.

To open the demo data from within your software click File, then click Open and click Open Demo Data.

To login, enter manager as the logon name and leave the password blank.

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To move between your company data and Demonstration Data click File, then click Open and choose the required option.

Practice data

Find out more about using Practice data in our dedicated article.