Due to improvements and changes made to the file layouts of Sage Line 50 V8 your stationery layouts are not converted.
If you want to use any stationery layouts you have amended or created in your previous program re-create them now using Sage Line 50Æs Report Designer.

Due to improvements and to the increased power and flexibility given to report creation in Sage Line 50 V8 the Report Designer has been redesigned. Because of this your old report generator templates are not converted.
If you want to use any report generator templates you have amended or created in your previous program re-create them now using Sage Line 50Æs Report Designer.

Due to improvements and changes made to the file layouts of Sage Line 50 V8 your stationery layouts are not converted.
If you want to use any stationery layouts you have amended or created in your previous program re-create them now using Sage Line 50Æs Report Designer.

Use the Memorise option from the Edit menu in your new Sage Line 50 program to re-create any skeletons you had in your previous program.

Set up your Customer, Supplier, Product and Invoice Defaults.
Your new Sage Line 50 program has a range of default settings to make the process of creating new records quicker and easier. Set up these default settings now. To do this, choose the relevant option from the Settings drop down menu.

Check that all the Company Preferences parameters, such as End of Report Banner, Item VAT Amendable, Non Vatable Tax Code etc., are set up how you want them. To do this choose the Company Preferences option from the Settings menu and then choose the Parameters tab dialog to enter or amend these settings.

If you do not have any Direct Expense categories in your Profit and Loss Report set these up now.
The Gross Profit/Loss is classed as a footnote of the Direct Expenses section of the Profit and Loss, therefore, you must include valid descriptions and nominal codes in the Direct Expenses section of this report to print out the correct Gross Profit/Loss value.

Your new Sage Line 50 program has 50 categories in the Profit and Loss Overheads section. If this has affected your layout of accounts it will be noted in the Convert log report produced when you run the conversion program. Check this and amend your profit and loss layout if necessary.
The last five categories of your Current Assets and Current Liabilities in your layout of accounts are placed in categories 46 - 50 in the new Balance Sheet layout in your new program. Check these now to make sure they are correct.
Any long term liabilities you created in your previous Sage accounting program will be placed in the Liabilities section of the Balance Sheet in your new Sage Line 50 program. Check these are correct before you start using your new program.
Check your chart of accounts layout is correct using the Check option in the Nominal ledger Accounts option.

Check that all your default Control Accounts such as the mispostings account and the suspense account are set correctly, and enter any missing control accounts. Choose the Control Accounts option from the Settings menu to check and amend them.

Any recurring entries which had TODAY specified as the processing date will be converted with the last day of the month. You can amend the date of the recurring entries within the Bank option if you want to. For further details see Recurring Entries.

All Product and Customer discounts you set up in your old Sage program are converted to Sage Line 50 for Windows and are placed in the new Discount Matrix.
To set up or view the product discount matrix, from the Products window, select the product or products you wish to set up or view the discount for, and then choose the Product Record option. Now choose the Discount tab. You can sub-divide each of the five discounts on each individual product record to ten different levels of discount.

All prior year figures are converted to Sage Line 50 as positive figures because your new Sage Line 50 program looks to the Layout of Accounts to see if the figures are Debits or Credits. If you want to have negative figures in your Prior Year buckets you will have to insert them manually.

Your new Sage Line 50 program has been tried and tested with up to 4 users processing simultaneously. Although the maximum number of users can be increased we recommend that no more than 10 users are logged onto the program at the same time.

The first time you start your new Sage Line 50 program you must enable the Access Rights option, and then setup the individual user logon names you want.
Each user that accesses the program is required to have a unique log-on that enables better administration of the network program and improved security. The use of a User List option plays a major part in these areas.
You cannot log on to different machines using the same user name. For example, if you log on to one machine as "John" you must use a different name to log on to another machine.

If you changed the default settings from T4, T7 and T8 tax codes in your old Sage program, you will need to check these before starting to use your new Sage Line 50 program because when you run the conversion program, tax codes T4, T7 and T8 are converted to EC Sales and EC Purchases Tax Codes. For further information about how to reset your tax codes see Sage Line 50Æs help system.
Note: If your previous tax codes were set to S0 - S9, these will be converted to T10 - T19 in your new Sage Line 50 program.

Take a backup using the automatic facility within the program, either by choosing the Backup option from the File menu, or by selecting Exit from the File menu.