Accounts Payable Automation for Sage 50

Sage 50

Approve with confidence.
Sync without second guessing.

If your Sage 50 approval process still relies on email, printed invoices or manual keying, you're spending hours every week on work that should take minutes. Zahara adds structured workflows, OCR invoice capture and real-time budget visibility — syncing approved invoices directly to Sage 50.

Trusted by 500+ finance teams — in construction, property, not-for-profit and beyond.

Zahara + Sage 50…

Sage 50 AP Automation That Actually Works

Sage 50 handles your bookkeeping brilliantly. But when invoices arrive in bulk, approvals get stuck and budgets are hard to track in real time, the cracks start to show. Zahara sits in front of Sage 50 and handles capture, approval and coding — automatically.

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Keep track of your spend with budgets

Budget progress tracked as orders are raised, with complete visibility into available spend before purchases are approved

Warehouse manager using Zahara on a laptop to manage purchase orders and approvals
  • Purchase Orders
  • Approval Workflows
  • Invoice Processing
  • Supplier Payments

One tool. Every team. Simple for everyone.

Make purchasing easier for every team by replacing manual processes and disconnected tools with one connected platform.

Data captured for you

Automatically capture, read, and process supplier invoices without manual data entry, reducing repetitive admin work and costly errors.


Thousands of finance teams around the world trust Zahara to keep their approvals flowing every day

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Royal Holloway Students' Union
Self Portrait
Pod Point
Salter Demolition
Pirate Studios
Althorp
Iron Mountain
Collgar Renewables
McDonald's
Harlequins
British Airways Holidays
Forbidden Forest
Adelaide Fringe
Abbey Healthcare
Adventure Parc Snowdonia
WSR
Mental Health Matters

No complex setup.
No chasing IT.

Zahara connects to Sage 50 via SmartSync — our lightweight on-premise connector. Install it once and Zahara handles everything else automatically.

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1

Install

SmartSync runs on your Sage 50 server. Setup takes under an hour.

2

Sync

Nominal codes, suppliers and departments are pulled in automatically.

3

Export

Approved invoices post to Sage 50 fully coded — no manual keying.

What data syncs between Zahara and Sage 50?

Zahara pulls master data from Sage 50 and pushes approved documents back via SmartSync. Here's exactly what moves between the two systems.

ZaharaSyncSage 50

Structure
Business Units
Companies
Suppliers
Suppliers
Divisions
Departments
Coding
Nominal Codes
Nominal Codes
Cost Codes
Cost Centres
Tax Codes
Tax Codes
Invoices
Purchase Invoices

Integrations

Seamless AP automation, tailored to your finance system.

Zahara integrates with the tools your finance team already trusts, including Sage 50, Xero, QuickBooks and Business Central. Configure once and go live with no disruption.

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Xero
Business Central
QuickBooks
MYOB
Zapier
Sage 50

Zahara + Sage 50 Integration FAQs

Everything you need to know about connecting Zahara to Sage 50 via SmartSync and automating your AP process.

Zahara uses SmartSync, our on-premise connector that runs on your Sage 50 server and syncs data in both directions on a schedule you control.

Yes. Zahara stores the original PDF and can attach it to the transaction in Sage 50 if your subscription supports document management.

Zahara works with Sage 50 Professional and above. The SmartSync module requires database access.

The Sage 50 integration via SmartSync is a paid add-on. Contact us for pricing based on your volume.

Yes. Zahara is hosted on Microsoft Azure. SmartSync is the only component that runs on-premise, simply to access your Sage 50 database.

Finance continues to work in Sage 50. Zahara handles everything before the invoice reaches Sage — capture, coding and approval.