Ok, I've only set up Sage this afternoon and have spent the last few hours setting up company and entering on all sales and purchase data for April. Have worked out a way to enter sales that does not involve setting up new customers for each sale as car sales business so all are new customers. It is staright forward for me but then I'm used to using Sage Accounts Line 50 at work so I was surprised at how familiar everything looked.
My only problem is going to be VAT as second hand car sales the VAT is worked on a margin scheme. ie you don't pay vat on sales and reclaim on purchases of cars, you get the gross profit of each car and pay vat on that figure. This is simple if timeconsuming on excel not sure if possible in Sage, will investigate help menues

Oh and just to add - for which n/c (nominal codes to use) Choose:

Company
Nominal Ledger
COA (Chart of Accounts)
Double click of Default Chart of Accounts

Clicking on the L/H col will show the group numbers in the R/H col for the correct code in that catagory.

Hope that makes sense and that I have not posted against guidelines for this forum.

Good. Its a great program, particularly if you get to use all its potential.

I thought the Key we had was for the Full Version, I get a pop up saying I am using a Trial Version...

When you select back up it will open a dialogue box and ask where you want to send it.

When you have decided where to send it the default will be data only. If you click the Advanced tab on the dialogue box you can select all you want backed up.

I selected ALL of the choices and did a back up and later, after I had to do a re-install of Sage, I used that back-up to restore everything including passwords etc and it worked a treat.