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Hi, I have used Sage v7 for many years, but my accountants have recently asked me to upgrade. Trouble is my company do not have enough money to upgrade to the latest version.

I asked Sage and they did not seem v interested in assisting, as having used Account Plus all our info is stored that way in their back up files, I could prob easily more to the instant software selection, but apparently my backup files will not work to restore to them.

Am getting frustrated as we are running on a v v low funding, we cannot justify £500 on software, and to be honest our company needs are not at the Accounts Plus level anymore. But we are a small PLC and need to have the history on our accounts for audit etc, so I need to be able to change to a system that enables me to use the backup to carry on with the accounts.

Any thoughts or assistance is greatly greatly appreciated!
Best regards
Nig

The current version of Instant will not restore a backup from a version of Sage that is as old as v7. Having said that, if you are happy that Instant will do what you want, it is certainly possible to use the existing data it just needs to be upgraded through an intermediate version of Sage first. So, for example, the backup could be restored in v12 and then on to the latest version.

If Sage will not do this for you, there are Sage Developers/Partners who offer a data upgrade service who could do this for you

John

If oyu are not using SOP,POP and stock

You could "Upgrade" to instant accounts which is £120

I could convert your data for you for a small fee