Working in Foreign Currencies

If you have customers or vendors that reside in another country, Sage 50 Accounting can be set up to account for operations in a foreign currency. This allows you to create foreign currency bank accounts, add foreign prices to your inventory and service items, pay bills and receive payments without having to manually convert the amounts to or from another currency, and display reports with amounts in both the foreign currency and the equivalent in your home currency.

Note: You can set up unlimited foreign currencies in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.

To start using foreign currencies:

Step 1: Add exchange gain/loss account for foreign currencies

Step 2: Set up foreign currencies

Step 3: Add foreign currency bank accounts

Step 4: Choose linked accounts for foreign currency transactions

Step 5: Link a currency to a credit card to track customer credit card sales (Sage 50 Premium Accounting)

Step 6: Set method of pricing inventory and service items

Step 7: Add foreign prices to inventory and service items

Step 8: Add foreign vendors

Step 9: Add foreign customers

What do you want to do?

Learn more about foreign currency bank accounts

Set up a foreign currency