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Sage Time and Billing Professional (T2) and Timekeeper Slated For 2018 Upgrades

January 11, 2018 by Wayne Schulz

I just received this email from Mark Janecek, Direct of Product Management and Development for SWK Technologies, Inc.

We hope you are enjoying 2018 so far! We can’t wait to show you what we’ve got in store this year. The holidays might be over but that doesn’t mean SWK couldn’t sneak in one last gift for our partners!

In 2018, SWK is putting a renewed focus on the Time and Billing Professional (T2) and TimeKeeper (TK) solutions for Sage 100. We will be making these solutions available for new license sales after continuous calls for their return. We’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about our Time and Billing Suite, and we want to let you know first that in 2018 you will see a new direction for these solutions.

These are the only time and billing tools fully integrated into Sage 100, and we understand they are valuable additions to your customers’ operations. That is why, in addition to relaunching Time and Billing Professional and Timekeeper for new license sales, we are expanding and improving upon the software!

It appears that 2018 will bring an upgrade for Time and Billing Professional (T2) to the business framework file structure defined by Sage 100 v4.0 applications.

We heard in April 2017 that SWK Technologies had halted new sales of Time and Billing with consultants reporting in June 2017 that their maintenance was not being renewed.

It appears the company has taken a fresh look at the landscape for Time and Billing and decided to redouble efforts on their existing Sage 100 based Time and Billing.

If your customer’s maintenance is expired, we encourage you to reach out to Stella Chammas at 973.251.0072 to see how your clients can get back on active maintenance to qualify for this update.

Sage Fixed Assets 2018.1 Set To Include Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Changes

January 6, 2018 by Wayne Schulz

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 introduced a significant amount of change for income tax regulations. The changes include new rules applying to the treatment of fixed assets.

A new update for Sage Fixed Assets, version 2018.1, is due late January or early February 2018.

The program will be enhanced to include (via Sage KB) :

Bonus Depreciation (Section 168(k) Allowance): In general, for qualified property acquired after 9/27/2017 and placed in service by 12/31/2022, the 50% bonus rate is increased to 100%, and then phased-out over the following years.
Section 179 Expensing expands for business property placed in service in taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/2018 limit to $1,000,000

Recovery Period for Real Property Effective for property placed in service 1/1/2018 and later:

Eliminated the 15-year qualified leasehold, retail, and restaurant improvement property classes
Assigned a 15-year recovery period to qualified improvement property, assuming a technical correction is made.

Additional Rules:

Auto Limits increased for vehicles placed in service after 12/31/2017 – 2017 current year limits on depreciation for vehicles is $3,160, with an additional allowance of $8,000 for the 168 Allowance. The new limit will be $10,000 with no change on the 168 Allowance.

Depreciation of Farm Property placed in service after 12/31/2017 A decrease in the 7-year recovery period for new farming machinery and equipment to 5 years, and elimination of the rule requiring use of the 150 declining balance percentage on property used in a farming business thus 200% DB can be used

Like-kind exchange treatment is no longer allowed for depreciable tangible personal property, and intangible and non-depreciable personal property, Like-kind exchanges are limited to real property

Please consult your financial advisor prior to implementing any new tax regulation. The above information may change from time to time. Always verify with your advisor and the official IRS website prior to implementing.

More information can be found on Sage City.

Sage 100 – Sage Intelligence Registration Error – Authorisation Failed please check that your password is correct

July 20, 2016 by Wayne Schulz

If you are installing Sage Intelligence for Sage 100 and receive the following error:

The update server returned an error. It may be that the server is experiencing problems. Either try again later or contact support. The error was –

[[ERROR]: Authorisation Failed please check that your password is correct. ].

This is often related to the way that Sage assigned account numbers to older customers which resulted in an account number change but the Sage Intelligence serial number still has the old account number embedded. We’ve found this can cause errors when initially registering through the Sage Intelligence License Manager.

There’s a quick fix.

Example:

Customer account number from Sage : 400XXXXXXX

Serial Number (Unlock Key) for Sage Intelligence: v99XXXXXXXX_G9WCLIG

Instead of using the 400XXXXXXX as the Account Number (which is what Sage shows in their online database as the customer number) , use the 99XXXXXXXX which is embedded in the serial number (Unlocking Key). In most cases this will work and the error disappears.

GetX: Integrated Search for Sage 100 ERP

January 31, 2014 by Wayne Schulz

Would you like full text search for your Sage 100 ERP transactions? How many times have you wished you could search across all your data files to located the mention of a particular inventory item or even customer name?

Search across modules, tasks and even across multiple companies and UDFs from one simple search box.
Instantly drill down into your results using an intuitive filtering system that displays results by company, then module.
Rapid search results presented in Google-like fashion, categorized by Company and Database location. For instance a caller may ask about the status of their Purchase Order # “B1962”, GetX will display only results with “B1962” in the database.
Find data across companies and across modules from a single search.
Finds data in difficult, if not impossible to search, fields like Extended Inventory Item Descriptions, Memos, and Comments in order detail lines.
Allows you to start a customer order by keying in a phone number or street address, or other unique information you may have in MAS, then clicking on the “New Order” button.
Search UDF fields.

Here’s a quick overview of the GetX product in action:

Some additional technical information on how this works:
Requirements:

Microsoft .NET 2.0 or higher is required on the server. Most servers current on MS service updates will already satisfy this.
No special hardware requirements, just follow the Sage published guidelines.

GetX install tips:

GetX must be installed on the server where Sage 100 ERP (MAS 90/200) resides.
Click ‘Register Module’ at \Setup\GetX System Settings in Sage 100 ERP (MAS 90) for a no obligation 30 day trial.
GetX creates in indexed database. The indexed database will be created in the ..\MAS90\xxx_GX\ folder where ‘xxx’ is the company code.
The indexed database will be similar in size to the data files being indexed.
The initial indexing could take several hours. We recommend that the initial indexing be performed after business hours.
The “freshness” of the data searches will be equal to the frequency with which the indexing timer is set. You can adjust the timing as often as you like.

For more information please email us.

Sage 100 ERP Automated Sales Tax: Webinar 12/4/13

November 8, 2013 by Wayne Schulz

Sales tax at both the state and federal level is evolving every day, as states look for ways to increase revenues. What’s not taxable today could be taxable tomorrow. What’s taxable in one state may not be in another, and it just gets exponentially more complicated from there. Regardless of which industry you’re in or whether you sell online or to remote buyers, pending legislation such as the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) of 2013 could dramatically affect your business.

Discover how your business could be affected and learn how you can prepare now.

Join us for this free webinar to learn more about:

The current sales tax landscape
Status of pending sales tax legislation
Tips for mitigating your sales tax compliance risk
Steps to help you prepare for 2013
How you can achieve sales tax compliance through automation with Sage Sales Tax by Avalara.
Accurate sales & use tax calculation
Painless exemption certificate management
Effortless sales tax filing and remittance

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