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As your business continues to evolve and your ambitions reach new heights, it’s time to find a financial software management system that gives you added value.
Do you need more from your financial data than you did when you first started and chose Sage 50? More functionality, more time to spend on what matters to you and more tools to help you and your business thrive. Upgrade from Sage to AccountsIQ to work better, make smarter decisions and achieve more.
Unleash your potential with AccountsIQ
Not all cloud accounting software is built the same. Starter options like Sage help keep costs down by limiting storage and processing, which works when you're just starting out. But as your business grows, you need more support. That’s where AccountsIQ helps you work better—with unlimited data storage, powerful processing, and no fair usage limits. Better begins now, with the freedom to scale and achieve more.
Our benefits over Sage 50
AIQ vs Sage50
Here’s how we compare, feature by feature
Software
Features
Core Financials
Consolidation (Multi-Currency)
Multi-Currency Transactions
Flexible General Leager
Inter-company Recharging
Business Admin
3 Level GL Structure
Multi-dimensional Analysis 6 Dimensions
Advanced BI Reporting
Unlimited Data & Scalability
Banks
Bank Feeds
AP Invoice Automation
Open API
Custom Integrations
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Humentum
“AccountsIQ does everything we need and it’s an ideal fit for us as the next step up from QuickBooks. With QuickBooks, month-end could almost take the whole month! Now, we do it within five working days. Getting the results out quickly makes a big difference.”
Global Director, Finance & Administration
Thermatic Technical FM
"Running reports in AccountsIQ is quick and we've got the capability to do multi-dimensional reporting, which will be really valuable to us. I'd say it takes about one tenth of the time we're used to in Sage."
Finance Director
IFX payments
"Starter systems like Sage and Xero don’t really meet the needs of a complex business. AccountsIQ is a proper accounting package. It’s Cloud-based, user-friendly and meets all the accounting needs of an international business like IFX.”
Group Finance Director
FAQs
How has Thermatic Technical grown with AccountsIQ?
Thermatic Technical FM scaled reporting after moving from Sage 50 to AccountsIQ by cutting report run-times to around one-tenth of what they experienced with Sage 50, giving them faster insight without finance workload becoming a bottleneck. They also gained multi-dimensional reporting (e.g., by contract/site/region/service line) and more system stability, with greater confidence in data reliability as volumes grew.
Read more about the switch to AccountsIQ.
How does AccountsIQ’s open API benefit growing businesses?
It lets AccountsIQ sit at the centre of your stack by connecting systems like CRM, billing, POS, payroll, property or sector platforms directly to finance. Dataflows in automatically (sales, fees, charges, timesheets, etc.), reducing manual uploads and errors, and you can add or swap tools as you grow without changing the core finance system.
What are the main limitations you run into with Sage 50 as your business grows?
As you scale, Sage 50 often struggles with multi-entity complexity, so consolidation and intercompany work end up in spreadsheets. Reporting can feel limited for modern MI—especially if you need analysis by project, fund, site, region or department—so management packs become Excel-heavy. Being more on-premise/local-install oriented can also add upgrade/IT overhead and make remote collaboration harder, and workflow automation (approvals, integrations, process controls) is typically more limited than in newer cloud finance systems.
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