Product at a glance

Company Size:
£1m-£5m turnover

Users: 1 - 20

Looking for:

  • Construction ERP software
  • Contracting software
  • Software for managing subcontractors
  • Construction accounting system
  • Construction reporting
  • Construction software

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Sage 50 Construction software product overview

Sage 50 Construction Software Overview

Helping smaller construction and contracting businesses run at optimal efficiency and profitability, Sage 50 Construction is a financial and operational management solution that streamlines processes between contractors, subcontractors and HMRC.

Sage 50 Construction software features


Software for managing subcontractors

  • Supply accurate subcontractor information
  • Ensure correct tax rate is applied by verifying subcontractor status and information with HMRC online
  • No need to keep manual records
  • Eliminate transposition errors
  • Keep an up-to-date record of company names, unique tax references and NI numbers
  • Generate monthly payment statement reports directly to be issued via email
  • Record applications and generate self-billing and authenticated receipts
  • Automate retentions, discounts, CITB deductions and CIS processing

Construction reporting

  • Report on monies applied for, certified and paid, by client and/or contract
  • Provide details of payments made and tax deducted for each subcontractor through payment reports
  • Analyse job costs with contract orientated management reports
  • Subcontractor and sales retention reports
  • Provide detailed feedback for future tendering by comparing purchase and actual costs on won projects with analysis reports

Software for managing contract financials

  • Drill-down through analysis codes and groups to transaction detail lines
  • Visibility of management information
  • Analyse job costs through contract orientated management reports
  • Actual costs measured against estimated/budget
  • Overspends flagged-up immediately
  • Deduct, record and report on retentions

Effectively generate quotes

  • Log all enquiries received with contact, site and return date details through enquiry register
  • Build sub-libraries of rates, sections or whole quotations for insertion with flexible billing structures/libraries
  • Detailed feedback for future tendering provided by comparing actual costs on won projects through analysis reporting
  • Find supplier and/or subcontractor by trade and/or region in database
  • Create detailed enquiries easily
  • Returned quotes compared on one screen
  • All details of a quote transferred top contract module with minimal keystrokes
  • Allows user to control costs, purchase and produce valuations
  • Flexible bill structures allow budgeting and costing by plot or unit, with separate sections for general site costs and communal areas, etc.

Integrating business processes

  • Eradicate repeat entry of data into individual disparate systems
  • Monitor costs from quote/budget through committed/actual costs, applied/actual sales, down to accounts and payroll
  • Integrate with Sage 50 Accounts and Payroll
  • Eliminate repeat entry with payroll integration timesheets processed by batch

Third party software enhancements

  • Provide access to, and control of important project documents through Sage Project Portal powered by SharePoint. Integration with any Microsoft Office application and implemented in under three days
  • Reduce time spent receiving, retrieving, distributing and storing project documentation by effectively manage the collaboration and workflow of project documents with Sage Project Document Management software
  • Cut down on paper costs and time spent manually filing with Sage Financial Document Management, software that keeps track of different versions of your documents and reduces the need for printing and posting
  • We partner with IBM to offer a joined-up approach that ensures your system implementation is a quick and easy as possible. If required, together, we can take care of the hardware requirements related to your software implementation – a complete end-to-end solution.

Availability of certain features and functions subject to licensing options.

Contact Us to find out how Sage 50 Construction software can help you gain better business insight, enable more productive people and processes and respond to changing business conditions.

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