Sage 200 - Product Comparison

The table below explains the various functions that are available in Sage 50 Accounts, Sage 200 Standard / Education Online and Sage 200 Professional / Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud as well as any restrictions or differences for that feature where necessary.

Product Comparison

General

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Invoicing	✔	✔	✔ (Free text invoicing available with Financials suite. Stock and free text invoicing available with Commercials suite)
CRM	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Business Intelligence	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Manufacturing	✘	✘	✘	✔	✘
Project Accounting	✔	✘	✘	✔	✔
Bill of Materials	✔ - Simple			✔ - Advanced
Web, Timesheets and Expenses	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Customisation - 3rd party add ons	✔ - 3rd party only	✘	✘	✔	✔
API	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Excel Reporting	Integrated reporting using Sage reports.	Report on comprehensive data and perform more detailed analysis within the familiar format of Microsoft Excel.
Multi-company Consolidation 1 - Multi-company is only supported in base currency 2 - Multi-company is supported across multi currencies	✔1	✔1	✔1	✔2	✔2
Management Reporting	Transactional management reports also available for Profit and Loss, Trial Balance and Balance Sheet.	Profit and Loss, Trial Balance and Balance Sheet reporting based on financial periods.
Making Tax Digital Ready	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
GDPR Reports	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Price and Discount Management	Customer and supplier pricing, % discount, value and quantity discounts (limited to 10).	Customer and supplier pricing, customer % discount, value and quantity discounts (unlimited), discount on product groups. Limited Price Bands.
Sage 50 Payroll Integration	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Process Receipt Currency	Invoice currency	Any currency
Number of Analysis Codes	3 per record type	20 (modular)		20 (modular)
Outlook 365 - Contacts app3	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Document Storage	Store documents to One Drive	Store documents to One Drive or Dropbox

³Retired from 2024 R2 Release

 

Nominal Ledger

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Nominal Structure	Single (departments only)	Hierarchical - Cost Centres and Departments	Hierarchical - Cost Centres and Departments. Improved VAT 126 report (Education variant only)	Hierarchical - Cost Centres and Departments
Full Closed Period Accounting	Lock date only	✔	✔	✔	✔
Number of Accounting Periods	12 (fixed-calendar monthly)	Fixed, 12 (based on date)		Up to 20 (based on date)
User Definable Open Periods	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Group and Memo Nominal Code Types	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Budget v Actual Reporting	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Invoice Payments	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Bank Feeds	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Bank Feed Rules	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Pegg1	✘	✔	✔	✔	✘

¹Retired from 1st July 2020

Purchase Ledger

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Generate Payments	Suggested Payments based on invoice value and creditor criteria or priority supplier.	Suggested Payments. Multiple payment groups. Outstanding invoices (based on criteria). Fixed number of payment groups.		Suggested Payments. Multiple payment groups. Outstanding invoices (based on criteria). Unlimited payment groups.
Definable Ageing Periods	✔ (days or months)
Number of Contacts	Unlimited
Attach/Scan Documents to Purchase Invoices and Credit Notes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Purchase Invoice Authorisation	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔

Sales Ledger

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Number of Contacts	Unlimited
Definable Ageing Periods	✔ (days or months)

Stock

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Stock Requirements	Standard stock allocation, re-order levels and quantities.	Complex - e.g. allocation rules, stock write off categories and analysis, cyclical stock takes.
Multi-location Stock	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Multiple Stock Bins	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Stock - Integration with Nominal Ledger	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Stock - Cost of Sales Postings	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Landed Costs	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Batch/Serial Number Traceability	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Multiple Suppliers per Stock Item	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Units of Measure	✔	✔	✔	Complex	Complex

Sales Order Processing

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Sales Order Processing Requirements	Create orders, allocate stock, update stock levels, despatch in several stages and create despatch notes.	Complex - e.g. Cancelled Order Line History, Allocate by Order Priority, Requested and Promised Delivery Dates.
Cross Selling Items	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Preferred Items	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Alternative Items	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sales Returns	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Pro Formas	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Quotes	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔

Purchase Order Processing

Feature	Sage 50	Sage 200 Standard	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Purchase Order Processing Requirements	Create purchase orders, stock updated when goods received, deliver goods in several stages and print Goods Received Notes.	Complex Purchase Order requirements - e.g. Back to back ordering, cancelled order line history, rules-based batch purchase order generation.
Purchase Returns	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Remote Purchase Order Authorisation	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Purchase Order Authorisation Notifications	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
Purchase Requisitions	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
Purchase Requisitions Remote Authorisation	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔

Software Support

Sage 50 Accounts	Sage 200 Standard Online	Sage 200 Education	Sage 200 Professional	Sage 200 Professional Partner Cloud
Supported by Sage (for customers with Sagecover) or Sage Business Partners	Supported by Sage and Sage Business Partners		Supported by Sage Business Partners only