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Higher maintenance fees shouldn’t mean more manual work or server reliance. Move to a true cloud platform with transparent and consistent pricing built for growth.

Automating millions of financial processes for thousands of business worldwide

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Key benefits: Sage 50 vs AccountsIQ

  • Built-in multi-entity consolidation
  • True cloud access - no servers or remote desktop
  • Automated approval workflows and controls
  • Live group reporting across every entity
  • Open API for seamless integrations
  • Predictable, transparent pricing
  • Specialist mid-market support, available 24/7
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Why finance teams move from Sage 50 to AccountsIQ

Growing businesses often tell us the same thing:

  • Reporting is slow and resource-heavy
  • Sage struggles with higher transaction volumes
  • Remote desktop access limits flexibility
  • Consolidation lives in Excel
  • Add-ons increase cost and complexity
  • Server maintenance creates hidden IT costs

AccountsIQ is the golden middle ground for scaling businesses.

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Previously, we relied on the basic Sage 50 and paper-based processes, which really limited efficiency and alignment within the Ross-Shire Engineering Group standards.

Aquazone
Luke Holland
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AIQ vs Sage 50

Here’s how we compare, feature by feature

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Outgrowing Sage 50: Thermatic’s Story

Fast-growing engineering group Thermatic Technical provides HVACR services to multi-site commercial customers across the UK. Rapid growth meant thousands of transactions each month - and Sage 50 couldn’t keep up. As the group expanded, adding new entities became increasingly complex.

Thermatic needed:

  • Cloud-based software
  • Seamless integration
  • Faster, multi-dimensional reporting
  • Scalable multi-entity consolidation

Today, Thermatic operates a hybrid work model with true cloud access - and a finance platform built to scale alongside the business.

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We were using Sage 50, but it was too slow for such high volumes and took an age to run reports. When I looked at Xero, I knew we’d have a similar issue within a year.

Thermatic Technical
Natalie Hopkins

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