How to import data
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What can you import?

  • Chart of Accounts (in a new company)
  • Customers and Vendors
  • Products, Services and Stocks
  • Sales and Expenses Quick Entries
    • Allows batch recording of past sales and purchases invoices or credit notes
    • Suitable for invoices issued from another system
    • You can't print or present quick entries to customers
    • Create an invoice from scratch within the product to print it
    • Create or import contacts before importing Quick Entries
  • Customer/Vendor Opening Balances
  • Bank transactions
  • Journals (only available in CA and UK)


What can you not import?

  • Sales Invoices and Bills
  • Foreign invoices
  • Invoices with foreign currencies 
  • General Ledger Opening Balances (except for Customer/Vendor OB)


Where do you import?

Import data from each of the following tabs:
  • Settings, Chart Of Accounts, New Ledger Account, Import Accounts
  • Sales or Expenses, Quick entries, New Quick Entry, Import Quick Entries
  • Contacts,
    • Customer, New Customer, Import Customers
    • Vendor, New Vendor, Import Vendors
  • Products and Services, New Item, Import Items
  • Settings, Opening Balances, Customer or Vendor, New Opening Balance, Import Opening Balances
  • Banking, Bank account, Import Statement
    NOTE: Connecting to the bank with Bank Feeds disables the Import Statement feature. 
  • Adjustments, Journals, New Journal, Import Journals

 

What format do you import?

CSV

  • Retrieve or export your data into a spreadsheet file (such as Excel) and organize the data before importing it
  • Upload your preformatted CSV file
  • You can't import any other format such as .txt or .zip, even if used in another Sage product
  • Edit the CSV based on the template before importing it
    • Download the template provided in the import window and paste your data into it to avoid errors

Bank transactions

  • Import bank statements as CSV files and follow the template in the import window
  • Upload OFX or QIF files downloaded directly from your online bank without preparing or modifying the file
  • Connect your bank account directly via bank feed and download up to approximately 90 days worth of transactions (bank dependent)
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