🔄 Making the Move: An Alternative to Sage Winforecast
🧩 Why Forecast 5 Beats Winforecast
🔹Fully updated architecture with SQL database for scalability and reliability.
🔹Continuous development and support — unlike Winforecast which is static.
🔹Seamless integrations (Xero, Sage 50, MYOB, etc) so you build forecasts from actuals, not just spreadsheets.
🔹Advanced reporting: Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, Funds Flow — all connected, all accurate.
🔹Feature‑rich capabilities: departments, assumptions, stock/WIP handling, multi‑bank, multi‑currency.
✅ Making the Smart Decision
If your organisation is still using Sage Winforecast, now is the moment to upgrade. Forecast 5 provides the modern platform your finance team needs — accurate, integrated, and built for change. Don't settle for legacy when you can move ahead with clarity, agility and confidence.
| 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 |
| Forecast 5 | Sage Winforecast | |
| Extent | | |
| What If | | |
| Actuals | | |
| Consolidations | | |
| Rolling forecasts | | |
| Hot Links | | |
| Import & export data | | |
| Templates | | |
| 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 | | |
| 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 | | |
