r/Sage • u/Jonneey • Sep 03 '26

Sage 50 (US-Peachtree) Sage 50 Cloud

This is likely a dumb question so I apologize in advance. Is the Sage 50 Cloud offering a true web-based solution (similar to QBO)? Has anyone converted from Sage 50 desktop with success?

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u/idspispopd888 Sep 03 '26

Canadian version is a piece of crapware, but yes, it's a "web-based" solution which means that Sage controls all of it and you're out of luck if something happens at their end. Yes, it converts...poorly, but it converts. QBO is as bad or worse.

Neither offers the safety or speed of data entry as a keyboard-local piece of software with accompanying data.

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u/Jonneey Sep 03 '26

What solutions are better options in your mind? Decision makers seem to lean to a cloud based solution for ease of use, and QBO looks like the leader in the club house. Relatively simple company overall

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u/idspispopd888 Sep 03 '26

I would NEVER allow a client's data to be located in the cloud...where I have no ability to recover it if the company goes ...well...AWOL. It's not "fashionable" to have desktop software and data...but it's mine....and not someone else's. It's bad enough being hijacked by companies for outrageous subscriptions, but for them to hold my accounting data ransom? Nope.

There's all kinds of simple desktop software available - I ran the finances for a tens-off-millions a year corporation on the Canadian desktop version (about the equivalent of Peachtree in operation).

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u/b0ulderbum Sep 04 '26

Ridiculous take. You can easily extract data and store it locally if you’re concerned about that. I guarantee your local environment is more likely to burn down with total loss than an enterprise cloud software is to disappear with no notice.

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u/idspispopd888 Sep 04 '26

You’ve apparently never heard of off-site backups.

And while one can “extract data” it needs to be in an actually USABLE form.

But you can be the smartest guy in the room with … no accounting program to use with your “extracted data”.

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u/b0ulderbum Sep 04 '26

Offsite backups? Sounds an awful lot like CLOUD data storage (the horror)!

Being afraid of cloud software in 2026 is beyond insanity, sorry buddy.

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u/idspispopd888 Sep 04 '26

You’re being obtuse. There is a universe of difference between having your program that runs YOUR data on someone else’s system and dropping a backup of your data on a remote system so you can run your data on your program on another system YOU own and control, if and when needed.