{
  "slug": "sage-50",
  "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/",
  "name": "Sage 50",
  "vendor": "Sage",
  "aliases": [
    "Sage 50 Accounting",
    "Sage 50 Canadian Edition",
    "Sage 50 US Edition",
    "Sage 50cloud",
    "Simply Accounting",
    "Peachtree"
  ],
  "website": "https://www.sage.com/en-ca/products/sage-50/",
  "category": {
    "slug": "erp-and-accounting",
    "name": "ERP and accounting",
    "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/categories/erp-and-accounting/"
  },
  "summary": "Sage 50 is two products in North America: a Canadian edition on MySQL and a US edition on Actian Zen. What each lets HubSpot read and write, and the hours.",
  "answer": "Not from HubSpot or Sage: the HubSpot App Marketplace lists third-party apps from Commercient, one per edition and led by Sage 50 CA SYNC, Data Lake, AI, MCP by Commercient, as of September 2026. We recommend a custom integration, a small agent on the Windows machine that holds the company data, reading through ODBC and writing back only through Sage's SDK, at 70 to 150 build hours. None of that reaches Sage 50 Cloud, the US version Sage hosts, which accepts only the third-party integrations Sage has approved.",
  "nativeApp": {
    "status": "third-party",
    "name": "Sage 50 CA SYNC, Data Lake, AI, MCP by Commercient",
    "developer": "Commercient",
    "verifiedAt": "2026-09-28"
  },
  "api": {
    "style": "sql",
    "auth": "sql",
    "webhooks": "unknown",
    "changedSince": "partial",
    "sandbox": "yes",
    "docsUrl": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/A_List_of_Data_Files.htm"
  },
  "objects": [
    {
      "source": "Customer (CUSTOMER.DAT on the US edition)",
      "hubspot": "company",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "CustomerRecordNumber on the US edition, the table's own id from the data dictionary in Canada",
      "notes": "The customer ID can be changed in Sage 50. The record number never changes."
    },
    {
      "source": "Contact (CONTACTS.DAT on the US edition)",
      "hubspot": "contact",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "Email, with the contact's record number as the tie breaker",
      "notes": "Each US contact row points back to its customer's record number."
    },
    {
      "source": "Sales order (US journal 11 in JRNLHDR.DAT)",
      "hubspot": "deal",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "PostOrder, with the order's reference as the readable label"
    },
    {
      "source": "Sales invoice (US journal 3 in JRNLHDR.DAT)",
      "hubspot": "custom",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "PostOrder, associated to the customer's record number",
      "notes": "Journal 3 also holds credit memos, which the expanded journal type separates."
    },
    {
      "source": "Inventory item (LINEITEM.DAT on the US edition)",
      "hubspot": "product",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "ItemRecordNumber"
    }
  ],
  "approaches": [
    {
      "kind": "custom",
      "fit": "recommended",
      "why": "A custom integration puts an agent beside the company data that reads each edition's ODBC source as a third-party user, keys every record on Sage 50's internal record numbers, and writes back only through Sage's SDK for that edition."
    },
    {
      "kind": "native",
      "fit": "possible",
      "why": "Commercient publishes one third-party app per edition, and its developer keeps the mapping and the support. It suits a standard customer and invoice copy where nobody on your side wants to run anything."
    }
  ],
  "connectionMethods": [
    "sql"
  ],
  "effort": {
    "discoveryHours": [
      10,
      20
    ],
    "buildHours": [
      70,
      150
    ],
    "buildBand": "70 to 150 hours",
    "typicalElapsed": "4 to 8 weeks"
  },
  "pattern": "polling-watermark",
  "faqs": [
    {
      "q": "Which Sage 50 editions have an app in the HubSpot App Marketplace?",
      "a": "Each has one, and none is official. Commercient, a third-party developer, lists Sage 50 CA SYNC, Data Lake, AI, MCP by Commercient for the Canadian edition and matching apps for the US edition and the UK product, each with five or fewer installs in the marketplace's own count. Neither HubSpot nor Sage publishes one, and the UK app serves a product this page does not cover."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can an integration read Sage 50 Canadian Edition data directly?",
      "a": "Yes, through ODBC. Each company is a MySQL database, an SAI file plus an SAJ folder, and Sage 50 creates an ODBC data source for it named after the company file. A Sage 50 user granted read rights for third-party products can open it with the MySQL Connector driver. Sage strongly recommends against changing data that way, so writes go through the SDK instead."
    },
    {
      "q": "Why is Sage 50 US Edition data read-only over ODBC?",
      "a": "Because that is the access Sage provides. An administrator turns on access from outside Sage 50 on the Data Access/Crystal Reports tab and sets a password for the fixed Peachtree ID, and Sage describes the resulting ODBC and OLE DB connections as read-only access to company data. Writing needs the US edition's SDK, a .NET kit Sage offers to developers who apply as partners."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does Sage 50 Cloud in the US work with a HubSpot integration?",
      "a": "Only if Sage adds it. Sage hosts Sage 50 Cloud on its own servers and lists the third-party apps it supports there, among them Avalara, AutoEntry, Sage AP Automation and XLGL. A request for any other app only asks Sage's product team to consider it. Until then, the route is a CSV export that someone runs inside the hosted desktop and copies out."
    },
    {
      "q": "How fresh is Sage 50 data in HubSpot?",
      "a": "As fresh as the agent's schedule, because Sage documents no event an integration could subscribe to. On the US edition, changed customers show in LastSavedAt and posted transactions in LastPostedAt, so each run reads only what moved, and tables with no stamp, such as contacts, are compared by row hash. We agree the interval in discovery against the load the machine can take."
    },
    {
      "q": "What stops a renamed Sage 50 customer from becoming a second HubSpot company?",
      "a": "Keying on the record rather than the name or the ID. On the US edition, Sage documents CustomerRecordNumber as unique and never changing, while the customer ID can be changed with the Change ID feature. Every write is a batch upsert on that number in a custom HubSpot property, so a rename updates the existing company and a replayed run changes nothing."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can HubSpot create a customer or an invoice in Sage 50?",
      "a": "Through the edition's SDK, yes, and never through the database. On the Canadian edition the integration's user needs read and write rights for third-party products, which Sage withholds while a company is shared through Remote Data Access. On the US edition the ODBC route is read-only, so writes go through the SDK there too. We build writes as a second phase behind a review step."
    },
    {
      "q": "What does a Sage 50 and HubSpot integration take in hours?",
      "a": "Allow 10 to 20 hours of discovery and 70 to 150 hours of build for five tables with watermarks, replay and reconciliation, including the agent. Discovery covers the edition, version and tier, whether Sage hosts it, which machine holds the data and whether anything is written back, since a write back through the SDK is scoped as its own phase."
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Why teams connect Sage 50 to HubSpot",
      "anchor": "#why-teams-connect-sage-50-to-hubspot",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#why-teams-connect-sage-50-to-hubspot"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "What syncs",
      "anchor": "#what-syncs",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#what-syncs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Architecture",
      "anchor": "#architecture",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#architecture"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Three ways to connect",
      "anchor": "#three-ways-to-connect",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#three-ways-to-connect"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "What breaks and how we prevent it",
      "anchor": "#what-breaks-and-how-we-prevent-it",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#what-breaks-and-how-we-prevent-it"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "Customer IDs that bookkeepers change",
      "anchor": "#customer-ids-that-bookkeepers-change",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#customer-ids-that-bookkeepers-change"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "A 64-bit agent and a 32-bit driver",
      "anchor": "#a-64-bit-agent-and-a-32-bit-driver",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#a-64-bit-agent-and-a-32-bit-driver"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "Every journal in one header table",
      "anchor": "#every-journal-in-one-header-table",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#every-journal-in-one-header-table"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "Writes refused on a shared company",
      "anchor": "#writes-refused-on-a-shared-company",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#writes-refused-on-a-shared-company"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Our approach",
      "anchor": "#our-approach",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/sage-50/#our-approach"
    }
  ],
  "caseStudies": [],
  "guides": [
    "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/guides/choose-a-hubspot-integration-approach/"
  ],
  "status": "published",
  "verifiedAt": "2026-09-28",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-28",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Prash",
      "role": "Lead of Technical Integrations and AI Solutions"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Sage 50 Accounting | Sage Canada",
      "url": "https://www.sage.com/en-ca/products/sage-50/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sage 50 Accounting Compare Features | Sage Canada",
      "url": "https://www.sage.com/en-ca/products/sage-50/customer-resources/compare-features/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sage 50 Cloud Accounting Software for Small Business | Sage US",
      "url": "https://www.sage.com/en-us/products/sage-50/"
    },
    {
      "title": "System Administration",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-ca/core/2026/Content/GettingStartedGuide/SystemAdministration.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sage 50 Accounting Connection Manager - FAQ",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=224924850073869&view=print"
    },
    {
      "title": "Opening Your Company Data with Other Programs",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-ca/AcctEd/2026/Content/System_Settings/Security/UseThirdPartySoftwareWithSage50Data.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "User Rights and Non-Sage 50 Accounting Products",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-ca/core/2026/Content/System_Settings/Security/UserRightsThirdPartyProducts.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Third-party rights",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=260610232726873"
    },
    {
      "title": "How to connect to MySQL database in Microsoft Access",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=224924150049418"
    },
    {
      "title": "About Remote Data Access",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-ca/core/2026/Content/ConnectedServices/RemoteDataAccess/About_Remote_Data_Access.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sage 50 Canadian Edition: SDK Download Portal",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=225924450089239"
    },
    {
      "title": "How to sign up for the Software Development Kit (SDK)",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=221924850013102"
    },
    {
      "title": "How to open the sample company",
      "url": "https://ca-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=221924950016544&hypermediatext=null"
    },
    {
      "title": "How knowing your version can help save time setting up your database",
      "url": "https://communityhub.sage.com/us/sage50_us/b/sage50us_supportinsights/posts/how-knowing-your-version-can-help-save-time-setting-up-your-database"
    },
    {
      "title": "Connecting to your Sage 50 data using ODBC",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/Getting_Started/COMPANY/Connecting_to_your_data_using_ODBC.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "How do I connect to the program using ODBC/OLEDB?",
      "url": "https://us-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=221924750012693"
    },
    {
      "title": "Data Access/Crystal Reports",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/USERS/Crystal_Reports_Fields.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "List of Data (.DAT) Files Available in Sage 50 for Crystal Reports, OLEDB, and ODBC",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/A_List_of_Data_Files.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Customer Fields",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/Customer_Fields.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Contact Fields",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/Contact_Fields.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Journal Header Fields",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/Journal_Header_Fields.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Inventory Item Fields",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/DDFs/Line_Item_Fields.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "How to access the Software Development Kit (SDK)",
      "url": "https://us-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=220924550010687"
    },
    {
      "title": "Explore a Sample Company",
      "url": "https://help-sage50.na.sage.com/en-us/2026/Content/Basics/Explore_Sample_Company.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Is there a cloud version of Sage 50 U.S. Edition?",
      "url": "https://us-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=223924850043284&hypermediatext=null"
    },
    {
      "title": "Third-party integrations for Sage 50 Cloud",
      "url": "https://us-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=250820164946590"
    },
    {
      "title": "How to export or import data using Sage 50 Cloud",
      "url": "https://us-kb.sage.com/portal/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=250709190039003"
    }
  ]
}