Looking for a Sage 50 alternative built for B2B wholesale?
Sage 50 Accounts is a popular accounting platform many businesses use to handle invoicing, cash flow, stock, tax and financial control.
However, for B2B wholesalers, accounting is just a piece of the puzzle. Simplisales covers all of those extra scenarios and provides a seamless experience especially tailored for wholesalers.
Simplisales vs Sage 50 Accounts at a glance
Why wholesalers choose Simplisales alongside Sage 50
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Simplisales is built for wholesale, not just accounting
Sage 50 Accounts helps you manage your finances, customers and business insights in one place. Simplisales transforms your business operations and drives meaningful change in how you sell and fulfil your products. For wholesalers, that difference matters.
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Your customers get a modern ordering experience
Sage 50 Accounts is not built to be a customer-facing ordering system. Simplisales provides your wholesale customers with a branded ecommerce website and mobile app, allowing them to browse products, view their actual prices, check stock, place orders and reorder 24/7 without having to call or email your team.
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Simplisales supports real wholesale pricing and catalogues
It's almost impossible to have a single public price that works for all your customers. Simplisales ensures healthy margins for your wholesale business customers and delivers the right buying experience for each of them.
- Customer-specific price lists
- Account-based catalogues
- Payment terms
- Balance limits
- Assigned warehouses
- Sales team ownership
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Simplisales reduces manual order entry
Wholesalers often receive orders via WhatsApp, phone calls, emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, and reps. Sage 50 can come in handy when you need to create financial records, but turning those messy inputs into neat sales orders isn't its ideal use. With AI, Simplisales can capture order info from WhatsApp, PDFs, images, and spreadsheets, and create draft orders for your team to verify.
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Simplisales connects sales, warehouse and finance teams
With Sage 50, finance teams get a reliable accounting system. With Simplisales, the wider business gets a connected wholesale workflow. Sales reps can create orders, warehouse teams can pick, pack and manage stock, and customers can order online. Finance teams can track payments, invoices, credit notes and balances.
When Sage 50 Accounts might be a good fit
Sage 50 Accounts may be a good fit if you mainly need:
- Accounting and VAT management
- Invoicing and Banking
- Cash flow management
- Supplier records
- Financial reporting
- Stock visibility inside an accounting system
When Simplisales is the better choice
Choose Simplisales if you want to modernise the commercial and operational layer of your wholesale business. With Simplisales you will get access to:
- A branded B2B ecommerce website and customer mobile app
- Sales rep ordering
- Customer-specific pricing and catalogues
- Multi-unit product management
- WhatsApp and AI order capture
- Connected warehouse, sales and finance workflows
- Better visibility across customers, orders and stock
The bottom line
Sage 50 Accounts is a reliable legacy accounting system. Simplisales is the modern wholesale, distribution and ecommerce layer that helps you take and fulfil orders more easily. You don't necessarily have to decide on either one. For many B2B wholesalers, it makes sense to integrate Simplisales with Sage 50: continue using Sage 50 for accounting, invoicing, and financial administration, while relying on Simplisales to update e-commerce, customer ordering, sales-rep processes, warehouse management, and wholesale availability.
No, you can continue to use Sage 50 Accounts. Simplisales can integrate with Sage 50 and wrap wholesale-specific functionality around it, including eCommerce, customer ordering, sales reps, and stock and warehouse management.
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