{"id":30660,"date":"2013-01-28T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30660"},"modified":"2013-01-28T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T07:06:25","slug":"softline-is-now-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/30660\/softline-is-now-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Softline is now Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softline, the company behind the popular Pastel and Accpac product range, is rebranding to Sage.<\/p>\n<p>The Sage Group plc, a UK based business management software company, acquired Softline in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the acquisition, the Softline name stuck around, partly because the Sage brand was associated with an insurance company at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This has now changed, and the company felt it was time to change the Softline brand to its holding company Sage.<\/p>\n<p>Sage (formerly Softline) offers a wide range of solutions from accounting, payroll and HR to retail software solutions. This includes well-known brands like Pastel, Accpac and Netcash.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1st of February the Softline branding will fall away and be replaced by Sage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69312\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/69310-softline-rebrands-as-sage.html\/attachment\/sage-branding\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69312\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69312\" title=\"Sage branding\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sage-Branding.jpg\" alt=\"Sage branding\" width=\"600\" height=\"707\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sage branding<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Pastel articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Pastel HR for SMEs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/14340-pastel-hr-for-smes.html\"><strong>Pastel HR for SMEs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Pastel\u2019s online accounting package\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/13222-pastel-s-online-accounting-package.html\">Pastel\u2019s online accounting package<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softline, the company behind the popular Pastel and Accpac product range, is rebranding to Sage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,5079,1033,4571],"class_list":["post-30660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-pastel","tag-sage","tag-softline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30663,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30660\/revisions\/30663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}