Sage launches online accounting
for small businesses
story by Telegraph
Accounting software giant Sage has made a new foray into
monthly subscription, web-based services for new businesses and
sole traders
Sage, the small business accounting software supplier, is
targeting sole traders and start-ups with a hosted software
package sold on a monthly subscription.
The Newcastle-based group’s is pitching
its Sage One software as a
“simple, secure, low cost way to manage finances” using
an online system that allows business owners to work on
their invoices and tax returns and assess their business
performance in the office or at home remotely.
Simon Black, managing director of Sage Online, said Sage
was aiming the software at the large number of very small
firms that it had not previously aimed to serve.
“We are solely focused on this part of the market to
deliver a very simple product,” he said.
The launch is the second time that Sage, which has 800,000
business customers in the UK, has attempted to sell an
internet based accounting software package to small
businesses. It withdrew its first product, called Sage
Live, in 2009.
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