Forecast 5 Is The Tool You Need!
The popular and successful Sage Winforecast is a flexible forecasting software that has been ‘End of Life’ by Sage since 1998.
Since then there has been no development, the product became obsolete in 2013 and support for those businesses still using the product finally ceased in 2014. With the rapidly evolving technology world, users of Sage Winforecast are encountering more and more errors and problems that have no resolution, such as issues with Hotlinks using Office 2010 and newer.
To address the market’s overwhelming need for an effective budgeting and forecasting tool, Forecast 5 was born.
FEATURES
PROCESSES
REPORTING
SYSTEM
FEATURES
| Forecast 5 | Sage Winforecast | |
Sections (Sales, Costs, Fixed Assets, etc.) |  | |
| Folders | |  |
| Departments | | |
| Assumptions | | |
| Memo | | |
| KPI - Formula in Memo | | |
| Accrual / Prepaid | | |
| Separately Invoiced Income / costs | | |
| Stock & Stock On Hand | | |
| Stock Made / WIP / Standard Cost | | |
| Wages & PAYE / Calculation Tables | | |
| Employee Entry Records | | |
| Foreign Currency Records | | |
| Transact to Different Bank Accounts | | |
| Currency Conversion | | |
| Auto-calculated Depreciation | | |
| Per Record Cashflow Flexibility | | |
Opening Balances | | |
| Loans - In & Out | | |
| Pensions & Kiwi Saver | | |
| Taxation | | |
| Seasonal Profiles | | |
| Formula | | |
| Per record GST/VAT Rates | | |
| Per record Cashflow Settings | | |
| Cash Receipts Options | | |
| Flexible Record Options | | |
| GL, Project Code and External Code reference fields | | |
| Section Summary | | |
| P&L Report Snapshot | | |
| Balance Sheet Report Snapshot | | |
| Integrations | Xero, Sage 50 Accounts, MYOB AccountRight, MYOB Advanced, Sage 300, MYOB Exo | Sage 50 Accounts, Excel |
PROCESSES
| Forecast 5 | Sage Winforecast | |
| Extent | | |
| What If | | |
| Actuals | | |
| Consolidations | | |
| Rolling forecasts | | |
| Hot Links | | |
| Import & export data | | |
| Templates | | |
REPORTING
| Forecast 5 | Sage Winforecast | |
Daily Cashflow | | |
| One Touch Reporting | | |
| Export Reports | | |
| Integrated Reports | | |
| Management Reports | | |
| Actuals & Variance Reports | | |
| Profit & Loss | | |
| Balance sheet | | |
| Cashflow | | |
| Funds Flow | | |
| Graphs | | |
| Schedules | | |
| Visuals | | |
SYSTEM
| Forecast 5 | Sage Winforecast | |
| Error-Free Forecasting | | |
| Detailed & Comprehensive | | |
| Financial Planning | | |
| Multi Users | | |
| User Management | | |
| Full Double Entry Rigour | | |
| Free Updates | | |
| Database | SQL Database | |
| Supported | | |
| Cloud version | | |
| Continued Development | | |
| Compatible with latest Operating Systems | | |
