Sage Remote Data Access (formerly Sage Drive) allows you to connect to and synchronize your data remotely via our cloud servers. If you are taking your laptop home or installing Sage on your home computer to access a shared company via Remote Data Access, it will not be accessing the data over your office's LAN (Local Area Network), but over the cloud.

Note: This setup is recommended for existing Sage 50 Accounting Multi-user local network environments as well as remote standalone environments.

1. Follow the Standalone Installation Instructions.
2. As stated in the installation instructions, at the prompt Will this be the only computer running Sage 50?, select Yes. This will install on your laptop or home computer as a standalone installation, which will allow you to run Sage away from your local network.
3. Ensure that you activate Sage 50.
   You will need to close and reopen Sage 50 before activation changes take place.
4. Then download your company shared with Remote Data Access.

When you have downloaded the shared company, any changes you make on your locally downloaded copy of the Sage 50 database will synchronize over the cloud with the main company database and any other users the data is shared with. Likewise, any changes any other users make, either remotely or in the office, will be synchronized to your computer.