About How to Buy

At Sage we aim to make the selection and purchase of the best software product to help run your business as easy as possible.

Sage authors international market leading Financial, Manufacturing and Distribution software products for the midmarket. Our customers typically have annual revenues between £5m and £250m and are often subsidiaries of much larger international corporates. We have thousands of customers, with world-wide coverage, in almost every business sector.

Our software products are very successfully sold, implemented and supported by our partners across the world. Each partner focuses on a particular geography and very often on certain vertical markets.

Multinationals are served by our Direct Organisation at Sage which is headquartered near London, UK and with offices across the world. The Direct organisation works closely with many of our Partners on international implementations.

All of our Partners must complete an accreditation process before they are permitted to sell and support our software. Our Partners also have additional skills and are able to offer value added services.

Before any company is permitted to sell any product from Sage they must satisfy a number of selection criteria.

1. The partner must be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of core finance and distribution software.
2. They must be able to commit resources into providing on going technical support to end users of Sage software.
3. The partner must be able to provide support for all of the associated hardware required to operate Sage products, from file servers, to workstations and full networks.
4. The partner must dedicate resources to the sales cycle to ensure everyone understands the key benefits.
5. The partner must have premises that reflect the professionalism and expertise required to implement and support Sage products.
6. The partner must have the requisite business and consultancy skills to be able to analyse an end user’s business and identify how best to meet the customer’s objectives with the software.

• Line 500 Partner
• Business Partner
• Solutions Partner

The basic details of these are identified below, the accreditation’s shown are the minimum requirements for each status, the individual partner may have made their own decision to put their organisation through further product accreditation.

Line 500 Partner
This is our highest level of partner accreditation and these partners focus on Line 500 organisations that have large system requirements. They are able to support multi-site and often multi-national organisation that operate in a number of different countries. Their primary focus is on Sage Line 500, Sage Line 500 and Web Enterprise and they are able too implement and support customers on multiple platforms.

Business Partners
These partners are clearly focused on the mid-range market place and will deal with small to medium sized businesses. Their accreditation covers Line 200, Sage Line 500 and Sage Line 500 they are also accredited on our Web Enterprise Suite of products.

Solutions Partner
Whilst these partners may not work with Sage to the same level as our other partners, they do work in very specialist area and are accredited for Line 200 and possibly to Sage Line 500.