User Rights and Non-Sage 50 Accounting Products

Once you add a password for the system administrator, a non-Sage 50 Accounting product (like Microsoft Access) needs a user name and password to open company data.

When you create a new company, Sage 50 Accounting sets this option to no access from third-party products. If you are converting from an earlier version of Sage 50 Accounting, however, third-party products have full access to your company data. In either case, you can change your access rights at any time.

Access Rights	Description
No data access	The user can only alter the data from within Sage 50 Accounting.
Read data	The user can read all of your company data from a non-Sage 50 Accounting product (except for reports in which the user has no viewing rights) even if the user has limited access rights in Sage 50 Accounting.
Read and write data	The user can read and alter the data using a non-Sage 50 Accounting product. We strongly recommend that you do not alter data outside of Sage 50 Accounting to avoid violating accounting rules without receiving the appropriate warnings.