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Switching from Sage to FirmWorks
Keep multi-currency invoicing and the audit trail your accountants rely on. Get HR, projects, chat, notes, and boards in the same workspace — and Thai VAT/WHT built in instead of customised.
What you keep
- Quotations, invoices, and receipts with multi-currency support.
- Audit trail of who changed what (FirmWorks captures this in a per-org audit log on Business plan and above).
- Customer/contact records that flow onto every document.
What you gain
- Native HR module — employee directory, onboarding checklists, leave with approval queue — without bolting on a separate Sage People subscription.
- Projects, tasks, and kanban boards in one workspace, sharing the same contact records.
- Internal chat and a notes/wiki module on the same login — replace Slack and Notion alongside Sage.
What’s better
Thai VAT/WHT without consultancy fees
Sage Business Cloud Accounting handles UK/EU VAT well but Thai-specific withholding tax typically needs a Sage partner to set up custom fields and adjustment lines. FirmWorks ships Thai VAT (7%) and WHT fields on every document by default — recurring invoices keep the same tax treatment when they auto-issue and tax IDs print on every PDF. Plus the application + database sit in Singapore (ap-southeast-1) for sub-100ms latency in the Thai market.
Side-by-side
A quick read of which features come standard in each. Parity rows confirm you don’t lose anything; the rest is what FirmWorks adds.
| Feature | FirmWorks | Sage |
|---|---|---|
| Quotations, invoices, receipts | Yes | Yes |
| Recurring invoices | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-currency invoicing | Yes | Yes |
| Audit trail of administrative actions | Yes | Yes |
| Thai VAT & withholding tax (built-in) | Yes | No |
| Customer data shared across modules (no Sage People sync) | Yes | No |
| Employee directory & onboarding (in the same product) | Yes | No |
| Internal chat & DMs | Yes | No |
| Notes / wiki | Yes | No |
| Singapore (ap-southeast-1) data residency | Yes | No |
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