Sage Accounting, for UK businesses

Tuppence for Sage.

Connect Sage once. Every day, Tuppence posts your sales, fees and refunds to a Tuppence bank account in Sage, and every payout matches the line your bank feed shows. Nothing to map, nothing to import.

Connect

One click, and it's set up.

From Settings › Accounting, choose Connect on Sage and approve on Sage's page. If your Sage login has more than one business, choose the one Tuppence posts to. The first posting runs a minute later.

A Tuppence bank account

Tuppence makes a bank account called Tuppence in Sage, in your currency. It stands for the money Tuppence holds for you.

Sensible defaults

Sales go to 4000 Sales, fees to a new Tuppence fees account, and payouts to the bank account whose number ends in the same four digits as the one Tuppence pays you into.

At most one question

Setup asks only when it can't choose, such as two bank accounts ending in the same four digits. Your accountant can change any default.

A worked day

One receipt and one payment a day.

On 13 October a business takes £120.00 through payment links, including a £5.00 tip, refunds £2.00 and pays £3.42 of Tuppence fees. After 03:00 the next morning, Sage gets this:

In SageLineAccountAmount
Other receipt, Tuppence 13 Oct 2026Sales: payment links4000 Sales£115.00
Tips to pass onTips£5.00
Other payment, Tuppence 13 Oct 2026Refunds: payment links4000 Sales£2.00
Tuppence feesTuppence fees£3.42
The Tuppence account+£114.58

The postings carry totals, not your customers' names. A refund that arrives after its day was posted goes in a second posting for that day: nothing posted is ever edited.

A worked payout

Every payout matches your bank feed.

The £114.58 reaches your bank on 15 October. Tuppence posts a bank transfer of £114.58 from Tuppence to your bank account, dated 15 October. Your bank feed shows the same amount on the same day, so reconciling it takes one click.

1

Open Banking

In Sage, open Banking and your business bank account's bank feed transactions.

2

See the match

The payout's line has the same amount and date as Tuppence's bank transfer.

3

Match it

Match it to that transfer instead of creating a new transaction. Tuppence never marks anything reconciled for you.

Switch off any bank rule for Tuppence payouts. If a Sage bank rule records Tuppence payouts as sales, turn it off. Tuppence has already posted the sales, so the rule would count them twice.

VAT

Right by default.

  • Sales and refunds use your sales account's own VAT rate, VAT-inclusive. Sage works out the VAT: £19.17 on the worked day's £115.00 at 20%.
  • In-person sales at the till split by the rates the till recorded, one line per rate.
  • Tuppence's fees post with no VAT by default. Your accountant can choose another rate.
  • Tips, chargebacks, cashback and customer credit are outside VAT.
Problems

Each with its fix.

  • Reconnect when the connection expires. The same books carry on where they stopped.
  • Turn on multi-currency in Sage (Financial settings) when your books are in another currency. Tuppence never converts silently.
  • Start after the lock date when your books are locked. A locked day posts on the first open date.
  • Repost that day when a Tuppence transaction was deleted or changed in Sage.

Questions

What does it cost?

Nothing. Accounting integrations are free on every Tuppence account.

Who can connect Sage?

Owners and admins connect, change and disconnect. Managers, developers and analysts see the page and download the statement file. Invite your accountant as an analyst.

Can I try it in test mode?

Yes. In test mode Tuppence only reads your real books and shows what it would post, creating nothing. Test data is posted for real only to a Sage trial business.

Can I start later than my first day on Tuppence?

Yes. Choose a start date, and the balance on that day posts once from a Tuppence opening balance account for your accountant to clear.

What happens if I disconnect?

Posting stops, and everything already in Sage stays there. Tuppence never renames or deletes anything in your books.

I'm on Sage Start. Does it work?

Yes. Sage Start has no refunds or foreign currency, so Tuppence posts a refund as a negative sales line instead. Sage 50 takes the statement file.

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