Hey dude,

You can buy Sage for yourself.

If you want 'A' version for your eBay business let's say, you'll be looking at around £100, give or take.

Should you want to buy a copy of Sage for an accountancy practice expect to pay thousands.

For point number 1, you may not like it, but Sage certainly will!

Sage is fantastic software, subject to opinion, but it is expensive.

thanks guys for replies. Unfortunately, I don't have regular excell installed on my laptop but you have to have it if you want to have transaction vt on your laptop.

rafapak wrote:

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thanks guys for replies. Unfortunately, I don't have regular excell installed on my laptop but you have to have it if you want to have transaction vt on your laptop.

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 For VT Transaction+ you don't need it.  That's for VT Accounts, which pools everything from the bookkeeping side (VT+) and allows you to produce year end accounts.  You get a 60 day trial of that as well but to continue it's an annual subscription.  VT accounts is restricted in trial mode, but VT+ isn't.

Hi Rafal
If you are just looking an extra month to practice for your exams, then just download another free trial via a separate email address. So if you have a gmail address then set up a hotmail one with the same name. Might sound dodgy but that is exactly what sage suggested to me when I was trialling sageone and didnt get round to testing it in the first month as I got busy with work.

To get 'lifetime' access to sage you need to buy a perpetual version, which can be expensive, depending on which version you choose and then how many companies you opt to have on it. But even that does have a life expectancy, although I have a customer still working on 2008 version, plus one with a 2006 version. But for where you are in your career I wouldnt bother with that just now as you are a while off it and a lot will have changed by the time you get through to finishing level 4.

Re the direct debit issue - when you are asked to complete a direct debit you will get a guarantee, which is backed by the banks. So any problems/disputes with them taking the incorrect amount on the wrong date etc you can make a claim through the direct debit guarantee scheme, your Bank will do an immediate refund and then go after the supplier. Obviously if they prove you owe them the money then they can go after you for it, but such companies have to jump through many many hoops to be able to process such things, so you are ok to go with the D/D option.
HTH