Once you add a password for the system administrator, a non-Sage Simply Accounting product (like Crystal Reports or Microsoft Access) needs a user name and password in order to open company data.
When you create a new company, Sage Simply Accounting sets this option to no access from third-party products. If you are converting from an earlier version of Sage Simply Accounting, however, third-party products have full access to your company data. In either case, you can change your access rights at any time.
| Access Rights | Description |
|---|---|
| No data access | The user can only alter the data from within Sage Simply Accounting. |
| Read data | The user can read all of your company data from a non-Sage Simply Accounting product (except for reports in which the user has no viewing rights) even if the user has limited access rights in Sage Simply Accounting. |
| Read and write data | The user can read and alter the data using a non-Sage Simply Accounting product. We strongly recommend that you do not alter data outside of Sage Simply Accounting to avoid violating accounting rules without receiving the appropriate warnings. |