Close the books in days,
not weeks.

Most Sage Intacct implementations we run in South Africa go live in 8 to 14 weeks. Single-entity professional services or NGO deployments can land in 6 to 8 weeks. Multi-entity groups with multi-currency consolidation, integrations to Salesforce or payroll, and Pastel/Sage 50 migrations typically run 12 to 16 weeks. Our Intacct Activation method front-loads the scoping in a two-week Discovery phase so the timeline is predictable.

Sage Intacct is licensed annually based on the modules you take and the number of business users. For a typical SA mid-market customer (multi-entity, multi-user, AP automation, dimensional reporting), all-in annual licence costs sit roughly between R250,000 and R800,000 per year, with implementation services costing R350,000 to R1.2 million depending on complexity. Bo Gartner provides a fixed-price quote inside the first week of Discovery so you can budget with confidence.

Xero and Pastel are excellent products for small businesses up to roughly R100 million in revenue or a single entity with simple reporting. Sage Intacct is purpose-built for mid-market organisations that need multi-entity consolidation, IFRS reporting, ASC 606/IFRS 15 revenue recognition, dimensional reporting (project, location, department, B-BBEE), and audit-grade controls. The switch happens when finance teams find themselves doing month-end in spreadsheets — that's Sage Intacct's home ground.

Yes — multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation is core to Sage Intacct. You can run any number of legal entities in any combination of currencies (ZAR, USD, GBP, BWP, NAD, EUR, and so on), with automated intercompany transactions, FX revaluation, currency translation adjustments (CTA), and real-time consolidated reporting. Bo Gartner scopes and delivers Intacct multi-entity deployments for groups operating across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.

Sage Intacct supports SARS VAT through configurable tax codes, VAT201-ready reports, and full audit trails for SARS queries. IFRS reporting — including IFRS 15 revenue recognition, IFRS 16 leases, IFRS 9 financial instruments classification, and consolidated IFRS-aligned management accounts — is supported through native modules and dimensional reporting. Bo Gartner designs your configuration around what your external auditor and SARS will actually ask for, not what looks tidy on a demo screen.

We follow a structured migration path: extract trial balance, customers, suppliers, items, open AR/AP, and selected transactional history from Pastel; map to Sage Intacct's chart of accounts and dimensional model; load via Smart Events or our migration tooling; reconcile side-by-side against Pastel; and run parallel for one period before cut-over. A typical Pastel-to-Intacct migration is a 10 to 14 week engagement.

Sage Intacct integrates natively with Salesforce, HubSpot, ADP, Avalara, Bill.com, Expensify, Stripe, and dozens of other platforms. For the SA stack specifically, Bo Gartner scopes and delivers integrations to SimplePay, PaySpace, Sage 300 People, FNB / Standard Bank / Nedbank / Absa payment files, Paystack, Yoco, and bespoke SARS-facing systems. Where no pre-built connector exists, we build to the Intacct Web Services API.

Sage Intacct is a SOC 1 and SOC 2 certified cloud platform with role-based access controls, full audit trails, and configurable data retention — all the building blocks for POPIA-compliant operation. FICA compliance is a process question rather than a software question; we design your customer/supplier onboarding workflows in Intacct to capture and store FICA documentation against each party, with restricted access and an audit trail of who saw what, when. Final compliance certification is between your organisation and the Information Regulator / FIC, but the platform supports the work.

Post go-live, we provide 90 days of hypercare at no extra cost — daily standups with your finance team through the first close and first audit window. After hypercare, our Managed Support plans give you a named Sage Intacct consultant, a close-cycle SLA, quarterly health checks, year-end and audit support, and on-demand user training. Most clients stay on managed support indefinitely.

Bo Gartner is a certified Sage Intacct Premier/Authorised Partner. Our consultants hold Sage Intacct Implementation Specialist accreditation and we participate in Sage's partner programme for product training, early-access releases, and certified implementation methodology. Sage Intacct is a registered trademark of The Sage Group plc; Bo Gartner is an independent consulting firm and authorised partner.