In the past, accounting systems stored a wealth of information relating to your customers, suppliers and inventory. This information was often limited to accounting data, i.e. the numbers. Pastel Evolution Professional takes accounting to the next level by allowing you to not only capture numbers, but also to perform what we refer to as business activities. This gives you the ability to control your financial situation as well as your relationships with your customers, suppliers and employees.

In addition to the comprehensive range of features in Pastel Evolution Professional, there are a number of add-on modules that make Pastel Evolution Professional the perfect management tool for your growing business.

 

To view information on the Sage Pastel Evolution add-on modules click on the relevant module below.

 

 

No. of Users	Multi-User, 1 – 5 users
No. of Companies	Unlimited
Database required	MSDE (1 up to 5 users)
Support/Upgrades	Included in the annual renewal

 

Designed for the manufacturing and assembly environment, this module allows you to create assembly sheets (or Bills as they are commonly known) detailing each component making up the completed item. Completed items can be manufactured before they are sold or you can simply invoice the completed item and Sage Pastel Evolution Professional will manufacture the item on-the-fly, where-upon the sub-components will be drawn from stock.

 

 

This add-on module allows you to keep inventory items in discrete areas, or warehouses. You can use warehouses for many types of situations:

• Physical warehouses in different geographic areas.
  
• Keep raw materials and/or internal parts separate from items you sell.
  
• Keep track of consignment stock/samples in a separate warehouse.
  
• Separate obsolete items into a separate warehouse.
  
• Track demo stock allocated to sales representatives.

 

 

We have combined World Class accounting software with Microsoft® Excel and have produced a reporting tool that revolutionises the way you make decisions in your business!

BIC is an add-on module that dynamically links to your Sage Pastel accounting data, taking your business beyond standard reporting functionality. You can generate spreadsheets by simply extracting Sage Pastel Accounting data and converting it into an easy-to-read, graphic format. Sage Pastel’s BIC retains report formats and makes them available for future use. You also have instant access to ‘live’ information and that last minute journal no longer impacts your Excel reporting. Monthly financials account for a large percentage of manual Excel labour.

Sage Pastel’s BIC offers a customisable pack which provides drill-down functionality. You can customise the standard set of reports and templates, and create new ones. It gives you flexibility with the combinations of financial data you choose to report on.
BIC ships with Management Packs (Balance Sheet, Income Statement), Sales Master (Sales Reports), Inventory, Purchasing options, and more.

 

OLAP Cubes

OLAP Cubes is an extension to the Business Intelligence Centre. The new OLAP module (Online Analytical Processing) caters for multi-dimensional analysis of your data. It answers the questions ‘what if’ and ‘why’. It analyses trends over months and years from a set of predefined cubes for Financials, Sales and Inventory. You can modify and build your own cubes based on your business requirements, rank customers and suppliers in order of importance and drill-down to the level of detail you need. OLAP is predominantly powerful in analysing large volumes of data where traditional End User Query Reporting may not be appropriate.

 

Online Web Reporting

This module is an extension of the existing Business Intelligence Centre module. It provides worldwide secure access to your business reports through a standard web browser. This is an excellent platform to share information with partners, suppliers and customers. All you need is Internet access from your web browser and then authenticate yourself and the reports will be made available to you.
You will have access to critical information about your business from anywhere in the world at any time you choose. Online Web Reporting supports secure access so you receive your reports in a variety of formats across the web for example Microsoft® Excel, PDF or HTML.

 

 

 

 

Company Law requires that you keep a register of your business' fixed assets as part of it’s accounting records. However, managing your company’s fixed assets can be tedious and time-consuming. Fixed assets are physical items such as desks, computers, cars, machinery, etc which you acquire to run your business. As you use assets, they depreciate or become obsolete. You can legally expense depreciation in your accounts for tax purposes.

 

Managing your fixed assets includes the following tasks:

• Tracking each asset’s value, both from a tax and an accounting point of view
• Depreciating assets correctly using an appropriate depreciation rate and method
• Updating the replacement values of your fixed assets for insurance purposes
• Accurately recording any sale, disposal or loss of assets
• Maintaining an accurate fixed assets register which records information such as: date of purchase; date of disposal; purchase price; accumulated depreciation; net book value etc..

The Sage Pastel Evolution Fixed Assets module automates all these processes for you. Once you provide the initial information, the system takes over and manages your assets for you. One of the realities of fixed assets processing is that companies frequently change depreciation rules as legislation allows and as company policy changes. Some changes are retroactive to when you purchased the asset. Sage Pastel Evolution Fixed Assets calculates its values dynamically from the start of each asset’s life, which makes retroactive changes simple. Imagine the time required to accurately programme all this yourself into a spreadsheet! Sage Pastel Evolution Fixed Assets can be used in conjunction with the core Sage Pastel Evolution Accounting system or can be purchased as a stand-alone product.

 

 

 

 

Sage Pastel Evolution Professional Point-of-Sale integrates with both Receivables and the Inventory add-on module, while addressing the practical issues you may encounter within the retail Point-of-Sale environment. It contains the following features which can assist you with:

• Security parameters
• Tender types (cash, voucher, credit card and cheque)
• Flexible pricing
• Discounting

It supports peripheral devices such as pole display units, cash drawers, slip printers and a bar code scanner. It is user friendly, while offering you flexibility by allowing for per-till configuration and giving you powerful reporting features.

 

 

 

The internet has fast become a necessary extension to the traditional manner in which business is conducted. Sage Pastel Evolution Professionals' E-Business module enables you to open an online web store quickly and easily, with seamless integration between your online store and Sage Pastel Evolution Professional. For example, you can draw product and price information from Evolution into the online store. In turn, online orders can be automatically downloaded into Evolution for processing.

You can benefit from:

• Seamlessly drawing customer, product, pricing information from Pastel Evolution directly into your website thus enabling you to sell products online.
• With full order integration, orders automatically flow back from your E-Business web store into Pastel Evolution.
• You can even sell your products while Pastel Evolution is offline.

Sage Pastel E-Billing will allow your customers to view their detailed statements, with drill-down into source transactions over the internet. You will however need to supply your customer with a password. The benefits from this module are as follows:

• Get paid faster
• Customer self-service
• Customer account access 24/7/365
• Uniform electronic remittance advice
• Mobile sales representatives with up-to-date information
• Detailed account research

 

 

With Sage Pastel Evolution Professional Multi-Currency you can process customer and supplier transactions in their currency. It allows you to track foreign currency, customer and supplier values in both the foreign and home currency. You can view balances and transactions in either currency at any time. You can maintain separate buy and sell rates for each currency. Sage Pastel Evolution Professional Multi-Currency maintains a history of exchange rates so that you can process transactions at earlier dates using the most accurate exchange rate. When you process customer receipts or supplier payments, Sage Pastel Evolution Professional uses the current exchange rate to calculate any foreign exchange profit or loss, which is automatically posted. In addition Sage Pastel Evolution Professional Multi-Currency allows you to:

• Process and print customer and supplier sales and purchase documents in foreign currency or home currency.
• Print customer and supplier statements, age analysis and transaction reports using foreign currency or home currency
• Process foreign currency cashbook transactions