Latest news from the Asperiti Group

Friday, 25th November 2011 - Sage 50 Accounts 2012 has some fantastic new features, including Sage 50 Accounts Mobile that lets you connect to your Sage accounts data from your iPhone or Blackberry and raise quotes and invoices and view your stock levels when you are out on the road. The smartphone app is FREE and there is no additional user licence required for each smartphone user. You can have a total of ten users, so you might have two desktop users that you have bought licences for, then you can add a further eight mobile users for FREE. See our blog for a full list of the new features, and visit our Web Store to buy at discount prices.

Saturday, 20th August 2011 - Book your places for our FREE Sage 50 accounts 2012 and Act! Pro 2012 seminar! Once again, Alex Jennings-Temple from Sage will be presenting the features and benefits of the latest and greatest release of the UK's best selling accounts and CRM packages. See a demonstration of Sage Mobile; you can use your smartphone or iPad to access your live accounts data and raise invoices on the road. Ideal for van sales and salesmen. See the major improvement in program performance in the lastest version of Sage Accounts. Call today to book your places. The sminar will take place on the 7th October at Newclose County Cricket ground near Newport, from 5pm to 8pm.

Wednesday, 6th July 2011 - First chance to buy Sage 50 Accounts 2011 with a FREE upgrade to Sage 50 Accounts 2012! From today, any purchase of Sage 50 Accounts, Accounts Plus and Professional qualifies for a FREE upgrade to the corresponding version of Sage 50 2012. Order from us now, and request the free upgrade from Sage, and we will supply and install the current version of Sage 50 and when the new version is released on the 1st August 2011, we will visit and install the upgrade for you, and demonstrate the outstanding new features in 2012. One of the major new features is a substantial improvement in the performance of the program (subject to your installations specific setup, ask us for our recommendations for improving the performance of Sage in general). This means that reports are produced quicker and displaying large numbers of transactions, sorting, filtering and searching are all much improved. There are many other new features, see our blog for a full rundown.

Thursday, 5th May 2011 - It's referendum day for the AV system in the UK! Don't forget to vote, and then visit our NEW Asperiti Sage web store to save lots of money on Sage software products. We offer substantial discounts from the Sage RRP on Accounts, Payroll, Act! and other products. Just click on the Shop link on our main menu bar.

Friday, 18th February 2011 - Our FREE Sage 50 Payroll Seminar will take place on Tuesday, 1st March, 2011 at Newclose County Cricket Ground near Newport. Alex Jennings-Temple from Sage UK will deliver a presentation on the features and benefits of Sage 50 Payroll 2011. The event Starts at 17:30 and runs for 2 hours. Refreshments will be provided. Contact us on 01983 721548 to book your place now!

Monday, 10th January 2011 - Our FREE Sage Act! Pro 2011 seminar will be taking place on Thursday, 3rd February 2011 at Newclose County Cricket Ground near Newport. Once again, we have Alex Jennings-Temple from Sage UK delivering the presentation. Alex will be showing us the exciting new features of Sage Act! Pro 2011, the latest and greatest version of the class leading Customer Relationship Management software. Come and see how Act! uses e-marketing to keep in constant touch with your customers, and allows you to maximise the sales opportunities from your existing customer base, while developing new contacts. The seminar will start with registration at 17:00, the presntations will commance at 17:300, there will be break for light refreshements (provided free), then a Q&A session at 19:30. The evening will end at 20:00. Alex and the Asperiti staff will be pleased to answer all your questions about Act! and other related products in the Sage 50 range.

Thursday, 30th December 2010 - The Standard UK VAT rate rises to 20% on the 4th January 2011. We have prepared instructions for completing the code change in your Sage Accounts manually, and have also published for download the Sage VAT rate change utilities for various versions of Sage 50 Accounts and Sage Instant Accounts. Please click on the "VAT Increase on 04 JAN" picture on the page right sidebar to go to our VAT rate change page. You may also find useful information and advice on the Businesslink web pages. They have a page dedicated to the VAT rate increase at the Businesslink website.

Thursday, 2nd December 2010 - Act! Seminar CANCELLED. We are sorry to announce that tonight's seminar has been cancelled due to the heavy snowfall last night on the Isle of Wight. We will be re-scheduling the event for a date in January 2011 to be advised as soon as possible.

Wednesday, 1st December 2010 - Last chance to book your place for our FREE Sage Act! Professional 2011 Seminar! Call us now on 01983 721548. Takes place tomorrow at 17:30 at Newclose County Cricket Ground, Newport.

Thursday, 11th November 2010 - Free Sage Act! 2011 Seminar to take place on Thursday, 2nd December 2010 at Newclose County Cricket Ground near Newport. Alex Jennings-Temple from Sage UK will be delivering a presentation of the outstanding features and benefits of Sage Act! 2011. After the presentation, Alex and the Asperiti staff will be on-hand to answers your questions. Light refreshments will be provided, and the event registration starts at 17:00, for a start at 17:30. The evening will finish at 20:00. Please contact us to book your places now.

Tuesday, 7th September 2010 - Still some places left for our Sage 50 Accounts 2011 seminar on the 28th September. Our guest speaker, Alex Jennings-Temple from Sage UK, will be demonstrating the new features in Sage 50 Accounts 2011, and giving useful hints and tips to help you get the best out of your accounts software. Free refreshnments will be provided, the event is being held at Newclose County Cricket ground just outside Newport, from 17:00 until 20:00 on Tuesday, 28th September. Call us now to reserve your places.

Monday, 2nd August 2010 - Sage 50 Accounts 2011 launched today! Call us for the latest feature list and upgrade prices. Highlights include new Report Designer features, extra features for charities, support for flat rate VAT scheme and Sage Services.

Tuesday, 8th June 2010 - Sage Accounts Seminar - Come to our free seminar on Tuesday, 28th September 2010, to learn how to use Sage Accounts as an effective management tool in your business.Look beyond simply bookkeeping to the wealth of management information and planning tools at your disposal. Produce sales analysis reports to highlight your best customers. Use the advanced features of Sage, such as taking credit card payments from your customers directly into Sage via SagePay. Submit your VAT return directly to HMRC from the Sage VAT module. During this short demonstration you will see how to use Sage Accounts to manage your business more effectively. The seminar runs from 5:30 pm until 08:00 pm and refreshments will be provided. The venue is Newclose County Cricket Ground, Newport, in the main pavillion building. Call us on 01983 721548 to book your places.

Tuesday, 16th March 2010 - Check out our Sage prices and save money by buying online! Click on our "Buy Sage" button and see the substantial prices savings you can make by buying from the Asperiti Group. Don't miss out on the great service from Asperiti, buy at discount prices and still receive support from us. We offer paid telephone support, and are also happy to visit you to assist with installation, setup and training at very reasonable rates.

Thursday, 4th February 2010 - We are now officially an AVG Reseller, and will be adding information about AVG products and services shortly. We use and recommend AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 for total business protection.

Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 - Assuming our application is sucessful, we will shortly be an authorised AVG reseller, able to sell the full range of AVG security products, including AVG anti-virus, the market leading solution, and AVG Internet Scurity for total protection from viruses, spyware and other malware.

Wednesday, 20th January 2010 - We now have a secure payment processing facility available on our website. If we have sent you an invoice, or you have received a statement from us, or you wish to make a payment on account or deposit, you can use our "Make a secure payment" page. Just click on the link on our home page, or go directly to http://www.asperiti.co.uk/pay-asperiti.php and you will be able to use your credit or debit card, or your PayPal account, to make a payment to us. Payment processing is handled by our PayPal merchant account and is completely secure.

Tuesday, 12th Jnuary 2010 - If you are a user of Sage 50 Accounts 2010, please be aware that if you have activated the feature that suppresses the warning that you are attempting to post an item with a date outside the current financial year there is a problem with posting error corrections. If this feature is switched on, you will not be able to save a corrected entry. This is a problem that Sage are aware of, and are in the process of fixing.

Friday, January 1st 2010 - Advice for Sage accounts users - If you managed the temporary VAT rate change in your Sage accounts by creating a new VAT rate T15, you will want to revert the default tax code in your customer, supplier and product records to T1 from T15. Fortunately, this can be quickly and easily accomplished by using the standard csv file export facilities in the Sage reports. In the sales module, go into reports, choose cutomer details, customer details csv and export all of your account records to a csv file. Then open the csv file in Microsoft Excel, do a global search and replace, replacing T15 with T1. Save the file, preserving the format. Then just use the Sage file import program to update the customer records from the csv file. Repeat for suppliers and products. Finally, check that the rate attached to T1 is still 17.5% from last year, which it should be if you used this method to cope with the temporary change. If you need assistance with this, please contact us.

Friday, 1st January 2010 - The UK standard rate for VAT reverted to 17.5% at midnight as the new decade started. All businesses that are registered for Value Added Tax need to ensure that any invoices or cash sales show VAT at the new rate. You may still receive invoices from your suppliers dated on or before the 31st December 2009, and you may record and account for these at 15%. If you have any queries about VAT, please call us or contact HMRC.

December 22nd, 2009 - Sage release their VAT change utility to assist their customers in reverting the standard rate of VAT from 15% to 17.5%. Get the appropriate utility for your version of Sage from here. You must ensure that all invoices raised on or after the 1st January 2010 show 17.5% as the standard rate of VAT.

December 16th, 2009 - Sage release ECSL/VIES update for Sage accounts. This is available as an automatic update for version 2010 (v16) users, and as a download from the Sage support site for other versions. If you have not already done so, create a Sage login using your product serial number and you will have access to the customer download area.

September 2009 - Sage launches the latest version of their flagship SME accounts product. Sage 50 Accounts 2010 gives you detailed financial insight to help you 'think business' efficiently and effectively. For small to medium-sized businesses, you’ll find intuitive tools to help manage everything from cash flow and VAT returns (including online) to year-end accounts and management of customers and suppliers. Advanced reporting and budget management, plus integration with all Sage 50 products and Sage Pay provides a truly flexible business management solution.