News Briefing April 2009

For finance directors and managers across the South West. Here at accountsdoctor, we help you squeeze every ounce of benefit from your accounting, manufacturing, business software and systems

This issue is dedicated to Sage products and services - because Sage has announced some particularly valuable end-of-period offers. If you don’t know about them, you can’t take advantage …
1. Our new, low-cost ‘Tune-Up’ for your Sage software and skills
2. Sage end-of-period offers
3. Managing your business contacts better – the new ACT! ‘Tune Up’
4. Online Payroll Submissions. The latest …

Sage Tune Up
Our ‘Sage Tune-Up’ program has proven to be of help to many of our clients wanting to improve the operation of their Sage software and improve their Sage skills.

'Sage Tune Up' is held at your office and lasts half a day. You will have the undivided attention of our highly experienced technical director Richard Burrell who will improve your Sage operation in up to three areas.
Process
• Paper-flow – ensuring it is working effectively and efficiently
• Back-up – checking on how your data is backed up and available in times of need
• Project costing – ensuring that projects can be costed properly and in detail
• Data entry – ensuring that data is entered effectively and without duplication
System
• Resolving instances where your Sage software ‘crashes’
• Suitability – checking your hardware. Is it configured for optimal performance and speed?
• Speed – improving the speed of processing your day to day tasks
• Lost data – avoid loosing data in the future
People
• Best practice – ensuring that Sage is used efficiently with operator training
• Faster processing – eliminate ‘slow’ and replace with ‘speedy’, including sales order processing
 
To discuss how our low-cost Sage Tune-Up can help you and your business, please contact us here or call us on 08456 410 737

Note. You may require specific help with your Sage ACT! If so, we provide an ACT! Tune Up (See below)

Sage end of period offers
For users of versions 4 to 10 of Sage Accounts, Accounts Plus or Accounts Professional, there is good news and bad news.
First the bad news.
- These versions of software have reached the end of their life
- Sage will no longer support them from 1 May
The good news.
- You have an opportunity to upgrade to the current version through accountsdoctor for a very attractive price, but only until 30 April
- Here are the low upgrade prices …
Special low-cost upgrade prices are available. For full details, please contact us here or call on 08456 410 737

Sage ACT!
Sage is miffed that you might have bought another Contact Manager (CRM) and not their excellent ACT!  They say you can redeem yourself by taking advantage of their ‘Competitors are Horrid’ trade-in offer.

ACT! 2009 is the version of ACT! we have all waited for. For more details go to http://www.accountsdoctor.co.uk/managing-customers.html

End of period trade-in prices against your old Goldmine and other CRM packages are available

If you have been considering managing your contacts better than ever, then there will not be a better time upgrade to the all-new ACT! CRM. Contact us on 08456 410 737 or go here

ACT! Tune Up
If you would like to have your ACT! CRM working properly and ultimately to increase your sales, simply book an ACT! Tune-Up

Examples of how your ACT! can wok harder for you include.
- Are you using your ACT! as part of your marketing - to send targeted letters, information and e-mails to your clients? Then to manage responses and prospective orders?
- Have you integrated ACT! with Outlook yet - to have incoming e-mails automatically attached to the relevant ACT! Contact? (Very effective and saves a huge amount of time)
- Are you sending HTML emails to your ACT! contacts, checking email delivery/open rates and seeing a call list of your best prospects, based on how many times that people open your emails?

A properly set-up ACT! can help you improve contact with your prospects, customers and suppliers - and generate even more sales
The cost? Just £285.00 plus VAT, which includes all travel to your premises

To discuss how our ACT! Tune-Up session can help you please contact us here or call on 08456 410 737

Online Payroll Submissions. The latest …
The Inland Revenue is introducing changes to the way you can submit information and payments. For more details and how this affects you, go here

Accountsdoctor provides a range of useful services and solutions, including.
- Accounting software
- Process software and solutions for manufacturers
- Credit control systems, which deliver results
- Excellent training & support for Sage accounting, manufacturing, HR and CRM software
- Reporting Tools for Sage and Excel
- Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) solutions

For more details or to discuss the possibilities, please contact us here or call on 08456 410 737 

We hope this Sage-focussed news briefing has been of interest and look forward to hearing from you on any subject relating to your accounting, manufacturing and business management systems

Karen & Richard Burrell

Accountsdoctor
Your local Sage partner, here in the South West