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Sage 50 Software - End of Life

Sage 50 "End of Life"

Sage have a policy of only supporting the latest versions of Sage 50.

The cost to them of supporting older versions is understandably just too high, they need to have hundreds of people to offer support and it would be too complex to have different teams dealing with different versions.

Whilst Sage will not provide support to older versions of Sage 50 other third party companies, like ourselves do.  The products are still perfectly serviceable and will continue to work they will not blow up or stop working, indeed at the time of writing all software since Version 7 can still run without problems.  There are some "oddities" you need to do some workarounds to get some older versions to install properly on newer operating systems, but they mostly work fine.

We have had complaints from a few people about pushy sales people in Sage trying to use "end of life" to force them to upgrade, this is not common. Sage PLC do not endorse the hard selling of their products, if you encounter this I am sure Sage would like you to contact Customer Services so that they can take remedial action.

You do not have to worry about "going end of life" 

If you do not use SageCover support frequently then PayAsYouGo support from third parties such as ourselves may be a better value option.  Most resellers can offer subscriptions without the support element form Sage at reduced costs.