Sage 100 ERP

Sage 100 Knowledgebase Now Sorts Reliably By Most Recent Article

November 25, 2020 by Wayne Schulz Leave a Comment

Sage recently updated their North American knowledgebase so that the Sage 100 articles may be sorted reliably by most recent.

This new feature makes it easier to see at-a-glance problems that have been most recently reported.

If you search the Sage 100 knowledgebase and leave the “search the knowledgebase” area blank you will see the most recent articles.

Previously there was no reliable way to view most recent articles so that a user could quickly review new product issues.

Access the Sage 100 knowledgebase here ( login required for many articles )

Hold Off On Running AP_Update1099_utl For Now

November 25, 2020 by Wayne Schulz Leave a Comment

In a post on their Sage City forum, Sage indicated that there will be an updated AP_Update1099_utl coming before the end of 2020.

This utility was used in conjunction with these product updates:

2018.10
2019.4
2020.1

After installing the product update the user would run the AP_Update1099_utl and certain data from the 1099-MISC would be transferred so that it would appear on the new 1099-NEC.

Sage spotted an issue as well as areas for improvement and according to this post on Sage City they will add the following features to the utility before years end.

Will now work for data from 2020 and greater. Originally this was only designed for 2020 data assuming that all users would run this before any 2021 data was entered.
A prompt will be added to warn the user if the utility was already run for the current company.
Will now move the MISC buckets in AP_OpenInvoice if there is a balance.

It’s unknown if this will remain a “run once” type utility or whether Sage might update the utility so that it could be run more than once.

For now we recommend holding off on running the utility until an update arrives.

Sage 100 Payroll Tax Update Report – 11/19/2020

November 25, 2020 by Wayne Schulz Leave a Comment

Sage released a payroll tax update dated 11/19/2020. You can read what’s new in this update from the PDF here.

Once you’ve installed the update in Sage you can view the payroll tax update report. Check the images below for guidance on how to upgrade your Sage 100 payroll tax tables.

Please note that tax tables are only available for Sage 100 perpetual and Sage 100 subscription users with an active payroll subscription and who are on payroll 2.x.

We recommend that you upgrade your tax tables regularly. At this time you should only need to update the tax table but keep an eye on the Sage 100 download portal for any year-end downloads which may be required.

Sage 100 Payroll Tax Update for 2021 Now Available ( Nov 19, 2020 )

November 24, 2020 by Wayne Schulz Leave a Comment

Sage has issued a very extensive 2021 payroll tax update ( dated 11/19/2020 ) which is applicable to both Sage 100 Perpetual and Sage 100 Subscription.

The changes include many important updates including:

The payroll tax update may be automatically downloaded within the payroll module by following these instructions.

To verify whether you have the latest tax update installed:

Select Payroll > Utilities > Payroll Tax Update.
Click Proceed to download and install the latest tax update.
To access this task, the Allow Payroll Tax Update security event check box must be selected
for your role in Role Maintenance. Select Payroll > Utilities > Payroll Tax Update.

You may download the full Sage PDF outlining the above payroll tax changes at Sage 100 Payroll Tax Update Guide – 2021 Q1 revision B – November 19, 2020.

Sage 100 Paperless with Gmail and Less Secure Apps

November 17, 2020 by Wayne Schulz Leave a Comment

We just ran across an instance where a customer using Sage 100 2020.x and paperless office for electronic delivery of statements was suddenly having their Google Workspace ( aka G-Suite or Gmail ) email account login and password rejected.

It’s important to note that this customer was NOT using two-factor authentication with Google. If they were to use two-factor this issue likely would have been resolved by using an app-specific password ( only available to those with two-factor enabled).

Just one month ago we thought we’d resolved this issue by enabling less secure applications within their Google email.

Google has begun tightening their security protocols for what they term less secure apps. Essentially these are apps which require you to enter in your Google credentials as opposed to using a more secure authentication which might grant access to only a portion of your Google account such as only email or only calendar access.

You can read more about Google’s less secure apps policy here.

It appears that while you can enable access for less secure apps, Google will periodically disable that access should the app not login for an undefined period of time.

This is apparently what was happening as our customer only printed statements every 30 days.

The resolution to the rejected login from within Sage 100 paperless office was to once again enable less secure apps from the Google account.

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