Sage 200 Standard / Sage for Education - Archive Companies: Usage & Parameters

Archive companies are designed for use for specific reasons, your usage of the archive company means that you will comply with our usage & parameters as set out below, these may change from time to time.

Sage reserve the right to revert this from Archive to Live company status where failure to follow our usage & parameters is observed.

Archive company licences can be used for the following purposes:

• To support migration from another product, including supporting migration so all data sits within a single product.
• To create a test company for specific purposes such as training, development via a 3rd party or to assist with a technical support call via a business partner. It's essential customers set this access up in line with considering their security policies. The following article may also provide guidance.
• To support the need to restart your record keeping but retaining previous records, for example moving to the Better Financial Reporting scheme, company name change.
• Audit / Historical Data purposes.
• Archive companies are billed monthly irrespective of the subscription plan. This is in part due to the reasons that an Archive company may be used - i.e. it could be temporary and means it is a true pay as you go feature.

Further information how to archive companies in Sage 200 Standard/ Sage for Education can be found here.