Ask the Accountant…
Question: If I use SAGE for my presentations and orders, why do I need QuickBooks?
Answer: SAGE Online has a comprehensive system with search, presentation, CRM, project, and order management system capabilities, to name a few. They are not, nor do they want to be, an accounting system. You will not be able to create financial statements, sales tax reports, or other accounting functions in SAGE. For that, and the remainder of your accounting needs, SAGE has an export option to move a complete set of order data from SAGE into QB—both QuickBooks Desktop and QBO.
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Harriet Gatter is an independent accounting and order management consultant serving only ad specialty distributors. Her specialty is QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online: getting started; migrating from QB Desktop to Online; converting from other order management; and accounting systems, including manual spreadsheets, restarting QuickBooks files that have gone rogue, and training distributors to use their new system. (She was also a distributor for 23 years.)
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