Sage 200, Sage 200 Standard and Sage for Education - Product Comparison

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

Product Comparison

General

Feature	Sage 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
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	✘	✘	✔
API	✔	✔	✔
Excel Reporting	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	✔2
Management Reporting	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, customer % discount, value and quantity discounts (unlimited), discount on product groups. Limited Price Bands.
Sage 50 Payroll Integration	✔	✔	✔
Process Receipt Currency	Any currency
Number of Analysis Codes	5 (modular)		20 (modular)
Outlook 365 - Contacts app	✔	✔	✔
Document Storage	Store documents to One Drive or Dropbox

Nominal Ledger

Feature	Sage 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Nominal Structure	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	✔	✔	✔
Number of Accounting Periods	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 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Generate Payments	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 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Number of Contacts	Unlimited
Definable Ageing Periods	✔ (days or months)

Stock

Feature	Sage 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Stock Requirements	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

Sales Order Processing

Feature	Sage 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Sales Order Processing Requirements	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 200 Standard	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Purchase Order Processing Requirements	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 200 Standard Online	Sage for Education	Sage 200 Professional
Supported by Sage and Sage Business Partners		Supported by Sage Business Partners only