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HomeSage alternative

A Sage or Pastel
alternative, online.

From R190/moNothing to installFree for 7 days and 20 documents
See Bookkeeping & Invoicing Accounting software, explained

What is a simpler alternative to Sage or Pastel in South Africa?

Sage and Pastel have served South African accountants for decades. If you are a small business that wants to quote, invoice, run basic payroll and hand a clean year-end to your accountant from your phone, Bookkeeping & Invoicing is a simpler online alternative from R190 a month, with no setup fee and nothing to install.

Bookkeeping & Invoicing: three plans from R190 to R950 a month. No setup fee, month to month. Free trial: 7 days and 20 quotes or invoices, no card.

Desktop or online

What changes
when you move.

Desktop accountingBookkeeping & Invoicing
Where it runsOne computerPhone, tablet or laptop
BackupsYour jobStored online
Your accountantGets a copy of the fileTheir own free login
Quotes accepted onlineUsually notOne click, then it is the invoice
Updates for new tax tablesInstall themAlready there
PriceLicence plus supportFrom R190 a month, no setup fee
Moving across

From Pastel
to online.

Bring your lists and open invoices

Export customers, items, suppliers and the age analysis from your current system to Excel or CSV. Setup reads them in, unpaid invoices keep their numbers, and your opening balances go in on your start date.

Your accountant can stay on Sage

The year-end pack carries a journal file in the Sage Pastel batch layout, as well as files for Xero and QuickBooks, so an accountant who works in their own package can import your year.

Payroll in the same place

Basic payroll works out PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI from SARS's tables and posts the wages to your books. Bring this year's figures from your old payroll with Pay before Books.

Questions

Sage alternative
questions.

For a small business that quotes, invoices, pays a few people and hands the year-end to an accountant, yes. A business with several companies, consolidations or deep manufacturing costing may still need a larger package.

Yes. The year-end pack includes a journal file in the Sage Pastel batch layout.

No. It runs online and installs on a phone or laptop like an app.

From R190 to R950 a month on three plans, no setup fee, month to month. The free trial runs for 7 days and 20 quotes or invoices, no card.

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