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Altec doc-link webinars for MAS 90/200

October 13, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

If you’re looking to take your use of paperless processing in Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200 to the next level…

Join us to learn how doc-link electronically captures, workflows, routes and archives business documents and reports to reduce handling costs and improve communication. Combining best practices, state-of-the-art technology, and sound implementation methods into an affordable package makes doc-link the document management choice among financial accounting software users. Our webinar and demo will focus on streamlined business processes along with corresponding return on investment with a focus on integrated document management.

Tuesday, 11/8/11 at 10am PT / 1pm ET – register
Wednesday, 11/9/11 at 10am PT /1pm ET – register

The included Paperless Office features of Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 are fantastic at reducing paper. For the majority of businesses the included capabilities of Sage’s Paperless Office are all they’ll ever need.

If your company needs:

To allow non-MAS90 users access to paperless source documents
Indexing of source documents
Approval workflow of paperless documents

Then doc-link is one solution that you should consider. Tightly integrated with Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 this product is widely used by businesses needing to take their paperless processing to the next level.

Sage Altec doc-link Armed and Paperless Whitepaper

How To Use eFax, Faxaway, MaxEmail and Protus with MAS90 or MAS200 Paperless Office v4.4+

September 26, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

If your company uses faxing with MAS90 Paperless Office you may know that starting with version 4.3 the features of Paperless Faxing were significantly changed. Prior to v4.30 you could use any number of Internet based faxing services such as:

eFax
Faxaway
MaxEmail
Protus

Beginning with MAS90 and MAS200 4.3 your choices were narrowed to any service you like – so long as it was Microsoft Faxing service.

This required (starting with 4.3) users to setup a fax device/modem for use with Microsoft fax. Some users found this cumbersome where their prior method of using Internet faxing was seamless.

While you still can use an Internet based service (simply substituted an email address as directed by the various fax providers) you may find that it’s less convenient for those customers who receive documents both by fax and email.

The quickest solution may be Sage’s old Extended Solution – LM-1033 which they sold until recently and which enabled a more seamless integration with the above Internet fax services.

Sage no longer sells the enhancement directly however you can order the enhancement (presently showing as available at version 4.4 product update 2) directly from DSD Business Systems.

The cost is $ 1, 060 (this includes first year maintenance) and the annual recurring maintenance is $265

eFax, Faxaway, MaxEmail, Protus integration with MAS90 and MAS200 Paperless Office 4.4+

MAS 90 Paperless Office Updated for 64 Bit Environments [Links]

April 6, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

Sage today released a pair of hot fixes to enable printing to MAS90 Paperless Office on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 64-bit due to incompatible PDF Driver.

The patches are now available in the Sage Partner File center at the following link. Expect to see similar fixes for Extended Enterprise Suite 1.3. and 1.4 shortly:

Version 4.4 of MAS 90 and MAS 200:
LM4045-T: Enable printing to paperless office under Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 64-Bit

Version 4.3 of MAS 90 and MAS 200:

Note: According to Sage you must be on Service Update 18 to install the patch below

Enable printing to paperless office under Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008

Via: Sage Product Suggestion Completion List

Installing Extended Solutions PDF Converter on Windows 2008 64 Bit

July 20, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

The information below is unverified (my client is still in the midst of testing the resolution). You should only perform the steps if you’re comfortable “messing around” with operating system level commands. Be sure you have a full backup prior to starting.

Update October 2011:

See this post for a nicely updated summary of current fixes for these types of issues

Update 1-23-2011:
Most of this post is superseded by the following two links:

Fix for Paperless Office Printing to Windows 64 Bit – version 4.30
Fix for Paperless Office Printing to Windows 64 Bit – version 4.40

Versions 4.5 and higher of Sage 100 ERP should automatically install the proper paperless drivers. When installing the paperless drivers be sure to change the Sage PDF Printer port to be a local one (NOT LPT1) and create a local port name to attach it to (usually we pick sage as the port name).

Should you get stuck with this issue we can assist our customers who are under a Schulz Support plan or if you are not under plan please view these Sage 100 ERP support options.

NOTE: The following information is largely superseded by the two links shown above. Please follow the links above before attempting to use the information below

There’s unfortunately no official Sage support for having Paperless Office PDF printing work on 64 Bit operating systems with Sage 100 ERP versions earlier than 4.30

One situation that a client encountered recently was an apparent inability to install the MAS 90 Paperless Office PDF Converter to Windows 2008 64 Bit edition. Each time we attempted to run the Extended Solution PDF setup (Library Master – Main – Company Maintenance – Email Tab – Advanced) – we would be greeted with “Unable to initialize PDF viewer”.

Upon closer inspection we could see that the install routine did not appear to place the PDF writer into the printers folder on the server. One theory is that we perhaps needed a 64 bit version of the Amyuni PDF drivers.

Note: We are still testing this solution and still cannot report that this resolves every (or any) case of problems installing the Extended Solutions PDF writer to a 64 bit operating system. The instructions below are meant to only be used with a 64 Bit OS where all other normal installations have been unsuccessful.

We have had one report that downloading this driver and installing it will resolve issues with installing Paperless Office under Windows 7 64-bit.

Again, these solutions are all workarounds people have reported using and not supported by Sage or guaranteed to work in every situation.

Install MAS90 Extended Solutions PDF Writer Manually to Windows 2008 64 Bit

1. Right-click on your Desktop, and select New > Folder. Name the folder ‘Amyuni 64bit Driver’.
2. Click here to download and save the file to the ‘Amyuni 64bit Driver’ folder on your Desktop.
3. Unzip the contents of the zip file into the ‘Amyuni 64bit Driver’ folder.
4. Enter amyuni when prompted for a password.
5. Double-click the Install.exe file located in the ‘Amyuni 64bit Driver’ to begin the driver installation process. An Amyuni Document Converter will open, displaying the current progress.
6. Once the installation is complete, click the OK button in the Amyuni Document Converter window.
7. Verify that the PDF driver was installed correctly:
In Windows XP: Click on Start > Printers and Faxes. You should see a printer called ‘Amyuni Document Converter’.
In Windows Vista: Click the Windows button and select Printers.

8. Right click the ‘Amyuni Document Converter’, select Rename, and rename the printer to Extended Solutions PDF Converter.

If any of the above links do not work – try following the link below to the source of this post.

Note: Sage does not officially endorse or support this solution. Use at your own risk and do not expect that Sage will debug this unless they issue a future updated support position.

Fortis document imaging web seminar Friday January 9

January 9, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

Is one of your goals for 2009 to get rid of paper? The prediction of the paperless society has been hovering for years yet never seems for most of us to get much closer to reality.

WestBrook Technologies is hosting an online web seminar this Friday January 9 at 11am EST and 2pm EST that will show their innovative Fortis document management software.

We’ve worked with Westbrook Techologies previously supporting their accounting system. And their dedication to the document management industry is impressive – especially the fact that they use all of their own software and integrate it directly to Sage MAS 90 for processing of their journals and registers.

Document Imaging, OCR and MAS 90

Although the integration to Sage MAS 90 isn’t a native one (most of the journals and registers are printed to an imaging printer similar to how you’d print a PDF) – there’s never been a journal or register that this client has not been able to locate. It’s also impressive to see the system by which they store their source documents – all paperless.

Their Fortis Document Imaging is a next step solution for someone looking to take their entire company paperless.

For this web seminar they’ve paired with Paradatec who will demonstrate their PROSAIR-AIDA OCR software which integrates to Fortis for a complete solution offering:

Intelligently read and convert documents to understandable text
Automatically file documents into folders based on content and rules.

Register for Westbrook Technologies Fortis Document Imaging Web Seminar

Two sessions are being offered:

Install MAS90 Extended Solutions PDF Writer Manually to Windows 2008 64 Bit

Document Imaging, OCR and MAS 90

Register for Westbrook Technologies Fortis Document Imaging Web Seminar

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