Accounting software for schools

Accounting software for Schools

Learning the A B C's of Sage for Education

Finding the right accounting software for your school doesn’t have to be hard. With the right solution, reduce departmental pressure giving colleagues fewer time-consuming, tedious manual tasks all while ensuring you improve efficiency with one centralised database.

What is Sage for Education?

This powerful cloud-connected accounting solution has been carefully tailored to the education sector. It comes as Sage’s first dedicated financial solution for schools which has been built with world class technology. Sage for Education helps schools manage their income and expenditure, track budgets and produce reports for stakeholders.

The benefits

Easy to use

Sage for Education is easy to navigate with one menu containing all accounting areas and functions. With a ‘quick-search’ feature you can easily locate information searching by nominal name, department, or any other field. Within this feature you can also create and save filters allowing you to analyse on screen from your nominal ledger.

Customisable

Tailor the software to your preferences with the customisable favourites area which keeps useful shortcuts in one place.
No two schools function the same and Sage for Education was created with a thorough understanding of this, which is why you are can customise departments to match your requirements.

Analyse data easily

Get departmental analysis tailored to your school. For first and primary schools, analyse by year group or key stage, and for secondary and high schools, analyse by subject or key stage.

Tailored reports

There are a range of reports that come as standard and do not require any maintenance from the user, freeing up time which can be spent improving efficiency. Reports within Sage for Education aim to provide accurate information on actuals, budgets, commitments and budget remaining enabling you to easily identify the financial health of your school. You will also be able to quickly provide reports required for school governors, leaders and head teachers, plus mandated government reports.

Eradicated hardware expenditure

Sage for Education is cloud-based so there’s no need to purchase, power, and maintain expensive hardware.

Flexible payments

The software comes as a monthly software subscription, helping you focus on easing cash flow.

Award-winning support

With support from an award-winning team you will be guided through every task, ensuring your chosen team have been trained to a high standard. If you’re not convinced, check out our NPS score – it’s world class!

Sage for Education can offer

  • Purchase Requisition with varying levels of authorisation
  • Business Intelligence provides you with powerful analytics tools to help you spot inefficient processes
  • Reporting on demand to make sure you have a 360 degree view of financial performance
  • Tight financial control over the factors that affect your budget such as cash-flow and suppliers
  • Multi-Tier nominal ledgers

What's next?

Our Consultants will host an exploratory phone conversation with you to ensure Sage for Education is the right solution for you and to gain a thorough understanding of your school. You will also see a demonstration of the software focusing on the elements that are important to your organisation. All of our demonstrations are uniquely tailored to the client so we won’t waste your time with features that have no relevance to your procedures.

So, if you’re considering Sage for Education and want to be sure you’re making the right decision, get in touch today to see how we can help.  

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