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With Sage Drive you and your colleagues can access your live Sage 50 Accounts data from remote locations using the Internet. Once the Sage 50 Accounts data is uploaded to the cloud from the main computer, you can connect your remote computer.
Before you connect to your Sage Drive data, there are a few steps you need to do first. Find out more in our step-by-step guide, Set up Sage Drive >
You can check your connection speed at various sites online, such as www.speedtest.net
If you aren't the data owner, the Sage Drive invitation email advises which software version you need to install.
Install Sage 50 Accounts >
If the Select Company window doesn't appear, log in to your data then click Tools, click Options then click Start up. Select the Show the Company List on start-up check box, click OK then restart Sage 50 Accounts.
Single company licence only - If the Active Setup wizard doesn't appear at this point, or Replace Company isn't available, please refer to article 40285.
If you can't see the company listed, the data owner has not given access to the Sage ID you used to sign in.
The first time you connect, a copy of the data downloads. This can take a few minutes depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the size of the data. Each time you log in after this, only changes to your accounts data download, which should just take a few seconds.
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