Sage Non-Profit and Hosted Solutions for Sage Accountants Network Members

The new package includes the following resources and benefits:

• Sage Fund Accounting: An award-winning financial management solution preferred by nonprofits and government agencies for planning and managing budgets, maximizing grants, and producing accurate reports. The following modules are included: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliation, budgeting, payroll, data import and export, grant administration, human resources management, GASB reporting, and encumbrances.
• Sage Fundraising Online: A flexible and powerful fundraising and event management tool for nonprofits and other organizations. It enables organizations to reach and engage their constituency via the web with web forms that are easy to manage and deploy.
• Sage Fundraising 50: Provides nonprofits of all sizes with an integrated fundraising, development and donor management solution that includes contact relationship management, volunteer management, event management and payment processing. A single concurrent user license for the Donate Now website integrations offered by Sage Payment Solutions is also included.
• Sage Grant Management: Helps nonprofit and government organizations maximize funding potential and provide transparency at the organization, program and grant levels. Includes one regular account, one administrative account and one executive view account.
• Human Resources Management, which includes integrated benefit accrual and calculations, scheduling, employee data, and payroll preparation.
• Members also receive access to the Sage Fund Accounting online knowledgebase, automatic program updates, and credits for 12 customer support incidents. The program is priced at $599 per year.

The Sage Grant Management tool is available for nonprofit organizations in versions for both hosted and on-premises deployments, and has been endorsed by the Grant Professionals Association (GPA), a leading nonprofit membership organization focused on the advancement of grantsmanship as a profession and the support of its practitioners. The organization offers training, professional certification, and networking to its more than 2,000 members. GPA was founded in 1998, and can be found online at http://www.grantprofessionals.org or as @GPANational on Twitter.

The hosted offerings in the SAN package for Sage Nonprofit Solutions are the first mid-market hosted solutions included as part of a Sage Accountants Network package. Although details have not been finalized, Sage North America CEO Pascal Houillon announced earlier this year that Sage will be offering hosted versions of many of its other popular accounting, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and human resource management solutions. When implemented, these hosted offerings will allow organizations and their leaders to access their licensed Sage products from anywhere at any time without having to maintain the hardware and software infrastructure. The hosted offerings also make it possible for organizations to scale up to add additional users for volunteers and temporary workers during major seasonal fundraising campaigns. Since the hosting provider maintains all data and applications in a secure, audited public data center, these temporary workers can work in temporary or remote locations, and do not have to be located in the same offices as the organization’s full time staff.