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Sage for retail

Best-in-class retail business software for fast-growing brands

Get best-in-class retail software that can be used either as standalone solutions or seamlessly integrated into the expansive Sage-built tech stack, unlocking limitless growth potential.

Unleash your potential with built-for-retail tools that tick every box

Scale and grow fearlessly with built-for-retail solutions. Whether you're needing advanced accounting capabilities of Intacct, reliable inventory insights of Inventory Planner, or the automation and simplification of Brightpearl, we've got you covered with the ability to combine products or use them standalone.

  • Use industry-leading accounting software to centralize your data for clear insights across all your retail and e-commerce channels.
  • Simplify and automate order processing, inventory management, and post-purchase tasks to boost efficiency.
  • Forecast sales and receive reliable purchasing recommendations to increase profits, save time, and adapt to market changes.
  • Benefit from a speedy setup in weeks, not months or years, with our expert-led onboarding, continuous support, and training for your team.

Game-changing retail business software

Discover more about our built-for-retail products. Take advantage of any or all of these market-leading tools into your own centralized hub, to suit your needs and support your growth.
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Sage Intacct

The smart cloud accounting and ERP solution to unleash the potential of your business. Learn why industry leaders choose Sage Intacct.

 

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Across all industries, Sage Intacct customers achieve an average of:

  • 250% ROI
  • 6 months payback
  • 79% close time reduction
  • 65% productivity improvement

Rated #1 in customer satisfaction by G2.

Brightpearl

The flexible retail operating system (ROS) that streamlines, simplifies, and automates your business.  Retail brands across the globe choose Brightpearl by Sage to power their back office.

 

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Brightpearl’s ROS includes:

  • Workflow automation that saves the average retailer two months a year
  • Inventory and sales order management
  • Advanced demand forecasting
  • Market-leading benchmarking, retail analytics and business intelligence tools
  • Purchasing and supplier management
  • CRM
  • Warehouse management
  • POS
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Inventory Planner

The top-rated inventory planning app that helps retailers accurately forecast future sales and get easy-to-understand buying recommendations.

 

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  • Forecasts that factor in seasonality, sales spikes, and demand shifts for ultimate accuracy.
  • Automated buying recommendations that are easy for your whole team to understand. No more over (or under) ordering!
  • Customized reporting with 200+ meaningful metrics to prioritize your purchasing. 

Trevor Martin

VP of Operations, Snow

"Brightpearl's Automation Engine transformed how we manage peaks. Without it, I would have had to double our warehouse & operations staff. Inventory Planner factors in seasonality so that we instantly say 'ok, we need to order 100,000 of that item, not 10,000'."

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Retail accounting software FAQs

Retail accounting software should be simple to use and easily learned. It should be designed for multichannel retail businesses, allowing you to connect your entire business to one central source of truth.

Brightpearl by Sage is a leading retail operating system (ROS) for retailers and wholesalers. Its mission is clear: automate the back office so merchants can spend their time and money growing the business. Brightpearl's ROS includes financial management, inventory and sales order management, purchasing and supplier management, CRM, fulfillment, warehouse, and logistics. 

In addition, the system has high-performing connectors to the major ecommerce platforms, including Magento, BigCommerce, and Shopify. Brightpearl's platform manages over 10m transactions and $5bn of business a year.

In 2022, Brightpearl became part of the Sage Group plc, with the combination of Sage Intacct and Brightpearl bringing together the leading accounting and retail operations solution for retailers and wholesalers.

Inventory Planner by Sage is the #1 inventory planning software for multi-channel e-commerce businesses.

It helps thousands of busy merchants across the world save time, adapt to market changes and maximize profit by providing intelligent purchasing recommendations based on customized demand forecasting.

Inventory Planner offers accurate product forecasting and analysis, alongside intuitive inventory reporting so retailers can make smarter replenishment decisions. Our marketing-leading inventory planning software helps merchants avoid losing revenue by running out of products, stop tying up cash in 'safety stock' and poor performing products, and optimizes inventory purchasing to boost revenue potential.

Inventory Planner became part of the Sage Group plc in 2022, and was renamed as Inventory Planner by Sage.

Accounting software for retail automates the reconciliation process, so you can automatically import data across different systems and locations to make sure reconciliation is done without the risk of entry errors or redundancy. Automated workflows remove the task of manually comparing multiple books, so you can spend more time focusing on your business.
Cloud-based accounting software improves collaboration between locations through a shared database. With accounting software for retail, everyone can access the same data, at the same time, in real time. Wherever they are. Accounting and management software for retail can lead to better decision-making through clear financial statements.

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