Sage Pastel Point of Sale (POS): An affordable, simple and secure payment handing retail solution for small and medium businesses
Powerful, yet easy to set-up and operate, Sage Pastel POS is keyboard friendly for fast processing. Simple screens and large display areas make this cashier-based system ideal for any till point. Sage Pastel POS interfaces with most popular barcode scanners, cash drawers and pole displays. Once installed and set up, tellers can be trained and working in record time.

Sage Pastel’s Point of Sale security features helps prevent potential theft
Since Sage Pastel’s POS system is fully integrated, POS makes use of the security controls within Sage Pastel Accounting, as well as allow you to assign access per user in POS.

Sage Pastel Point of Sale Back Office and Reporting features
POS integrates seamlessly with Sage Pastel Xpress or Sage Pastel Partner, therefore all the stock reports that you have become accustomed to using, are available for reporting POS transactions. Additional back office functionality includes supplier processing, account payments, viewing customer age analyses and statements. Using Sage Pastel’s advanced stock control and price matrix; you are able to determine pricing per customer, volume based discounts and special prices.

• Receipt money against multiple Customers, Suppliers or General Ledger accounts per receipt
• Customise receipt layout (create a receipt template or receipt sample)
• Enter post dated cheques or credit card entries
• Process discounts at the time of receipt
• Use analysis codes when invoicing customers and specify separate General Ledger accounts per analysis code
• Enter cost codes per line
• EFT Payments are catered for

• An audit trail
• Material requirements to determine whether there are sufficient components on hand to manufacture
• Components used in Bill of Materials / Kit Item Codes to track inventory items (components) allocated to a finished inventory item (manufactured product).

• Tracking each asset’s value, both from a tax and an accounting point of view
• Depreciating assets correctly using an appropriate depreciation rate and method
• Updating the replacement values of your fixed assets for insurance purposes
• Maintaining an accurate fixed assets register which records information such as: date of purchase; date of disposal; purchase price; accumulated depreciation and net book value
• The Fixed Assets software module automates all these processes for you
• Once you provide the initial information, the fixed asset management system takes over and manages your assets for you. One of the realities of fixed assets processing is that companies frequently change depreciation rules as legislation allows and as company policy changes. Some changes are retroactive to when you purchased the asset. Sage Evolution Fixed Assets calculates its values dynamically from the start of each asset’s life, which makes retroactive changes simple. Imagine the time required to accurately programme all this yourself into a spreadsheet!

• Ability to link users to one or more stores and prevent users from accessing items in other stores
• Creation of up to 999 stores with an unlimited number of inventory items per store
• The same inventory item code can exist in different stores and will share all item fields except quantities, cost prices, selling prices and reorder information
• Ability to copy selling prices from one store to another, per item per store
• Ability to transfer items between stores using a Store Transfer Journal
• Inventory reports will allow you to filter on stores

It can be difficult trying to keep track of a project’s income and expenses. Monies laid out, monies received, budgets and project income statements can be a nightmare to prepare – especially when you have multiple projects on the go.

The Sage Pastel Partner Project Tracker allows you to manage your projects, associated budgets and costs while providing in depth reporting keeping you “in control” of each project’s financial position.

• Reporting groups linked to various cost codes
• Enhanced budget creation per project
• Income statements per project
• Allocation of expenses and income per transaction per project
• Linking invoices and GRV’s to projects

We have combined South Africa’s leading accounting software with Microsoft® Excel® and have produced a reporting tool that revolutionises the way you make decisions in your business!
Sage Pastel Intelligence Reporting is an add-on module that dynamically links to your Sage accounting data, taking your business beyond standard reporting functionality. You can generate spreadsheets by simply extracting Sage Accounting data and converting it into an easy-to-read, graphic format. Sage Pastel Intelligence Reporting retains report formats and makes them available for future use. You also have instant access to ‘live’ information and that last minute journal no longer impacts your Excel reporting. Monthly financials account for a large percentage of manual Excel labour.

You can customise the standard set of reports and templates, and create new ones. It gives you flexibility with the combinations of financial data you choose to report on.

Sage Pastel Partner Serial Number Tracking allows you to track items from the moment you purchase or manufacture them to the time you sell them. With this stock control software module, inventory management even extends to you being able to track the item for warranty purposes should it be returned to you for repairs.

With Sage Pastel’s inventory control software, Serial Number History allows one to view movement history for serial number items. With Serial Number Listing, the serial number per inventory item, along with its status can be viewed.

Multi-Stores and Bill of Materials
By using the Multi-Stores module, you can transfer serialised inventory items between stores. Use of the Bill of Materials module allows manufacture into serialised items.

With the Time and Billing Add-On module to Sage Pastel Partner accounting software, simply complete timesheets for employees and charge your customers via activities. The activities that you create are the services you sell to your customers. These activities per employee timesheets can be used to create customer invoices.

Sage Pastel’s timesheet management software is useful in any environment where chargeable hours can be billed to customers. The Time and Billing module is very handy project management analysis software. You can monitor staff time and attendance, staff productivity can be analysed through standard reports, and exceptions reports can be run with the timesheet software for rates that vary from the default rate.

• Chargeable and non-chargeable activity codes
• Linking activities to and tracking employees
• Enter timesheets per employee. In each timesheet line, you must select a customer and an activity
• Creation of invoices from timesheets
• Use of cost codes to allocate costs and revenues to areas such as jobs, sales people, departments or any other grouping allowing you to track costs or revenues