Peachtree tracks accounts to ensure that they are accurate and in balance with double-entry accounting, and a debit and credit for every transaction.

Retain better control over your bookkeeping process in Peachtree through the use of Accounting Periods and GL Accounts. In Peachtree, each accounting period (usually a calendar month) can be locked so that the administrator can select who can edit transactions in prior periods.

In Peachtree, you always have access to how your transactions are posted to your GL Accounts. Features like ‘Accounting Behind the Screens’ allow you to view the journal entries associated with transactions while you are in transaction screens, such as sales invoices, receipts and purchases. This gives you visibility into how a transaction is being posted on both sides of the General Ledger, and allows you the ability to change any of the GL accounts that the transaction is posting to.

Peachtree multi-user products provide you with the screen-level and report groups access control.  Administrators can select from over 100 specific areas to give add, edit, view-only, or no access to each user.

Up to 15 checks of your data are performed by the Internal Accounting Review¹ process in Peachtree. These checks look for suspicious transactions and common accounting mistakes and give the user advice on correcting the transactions.

Alerts can be displayed within Peachtree or sent by email to customers, vendors, or employees when certain conditions are met or events occur. Peachtree can automatically notify certain employees through email when certain conditions are met. For example, if a customer’s balance exceeds a preset amount, an email alert is generated. Or if inventory levels fall below a certain amount, an email can be sent to the proper employee(s) to reorder.

Peachtree manages the revision history for the customer such that they can see the entire history of the assembly item, with an audit trail of who changed it.

Peachtree will automatically generate your sub-stock items and maintain them as a group.  This is useful when you want to create an item, such as a shirt or hat generically, and then use the attributes of that item (Color, Size, etc) to automatically generate the sub-stock items to produce a line of products.

Peachtree allows the ability to build an assembly as a work-in-process. As each piece is complete, that task is marked off the work ticket. When it is finished, an assembly item is generated as “ready to sell”.

Peachtree lets you choose from Average, LIFO, FIFO, and Specific-Unit costing methods.

Choose to use an internal part number, UPC/SKU code, or vendor part number when printing inventory reports from Peachtree.

Assign serial numbers to specific individual inventory items when creating transactions in Peachtree, and maintain detailed records for tracking, recall, and warranty purposes. Also track the actual cost of each serialized item for more accurate profit measure.

In Peachtree you can have service and labor items geared toward wages expenses. The advantage to service items is that it has the wages and salary account as the cost of sales account. This causes the labor not to appear in the cost of goods sold section of the income statement, but the wages expense section. The effect of this is that you can sell “services” just like you sell inventory and the expenses will be properly stated.

Peachtree tracks a job's contract price, previous progress billings, and retainage² withheld, allowing the creation of invoices based on the job's current progress. Billing can be based on percentage of completion, percentage of estimated job revenue, or percentage of each line item. Additionally, multiple invoices can be created for multiple customers.

Peachtree job costing reports include actual costs incurred.

While both Peachtree and QuickBooks offer tax table update subscriptions,  Peachtree users who do not subscribe to the service are still able to modify federal, state, and local tax calculations in user-defined tables.

This report shows the differences between what Peachtree calculates for payroll taxes and what the user has withheld on the payroll window. The report will automatically create adjusting entries to correct problems in withholding.

Peachtree offers feature-rich solutions for companies in industries such as: Manufacturing, Distribution, Construction, Nonprofit and Accounting.  These industry-specific solutions are designed to help these specialized companies better manage operations by handling their specific functionality and reporting needs without sacrificing the strength and flexibility of a robust accounting solution.

As part of Sage Software, Peachtree customers have access to Migration Specialists – a consultative resource that recommends Sage Software products that maximize business performance beyond the functional limits of their current system.

The Sage Software Migration Center is designed to support your business as you consider new platforms or technology. Our Migration Specialists will help guide you through the conversion decisions that you're facing. We'll help you identify your internal front- and back-office software needs, plan for future growth, and understand the critical questions you need to ask yourself before you commit your time, budget and resources to a software migration.