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10 Exciting New Features in Sage 100 2024

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Are you ready to take your business to the next level with Sage 100 2024? The latest release, launched in April 2024, is packed with powerful new features designed to streamline your processes and enhance productivity. In this blog post, we’ll highlight ten of the most interesting upgrades that will make you eager to upgrade to Sage 100 2024.

  1. Improved Audit Tracking: Sage 100 2024 offers expanded data tracking and printing on the audit trail for vendors, customers, employees, and items. This enhancement provides better security compliance across multiple modules.
  2. Restricted Mode for Administrator Tasks: The new Restricted Mode option in Administrative Tools allows you to limit user access when performing administrative tasks, ensuring a more secure environment.
  3. Email Notification for Task Scheduler Jobs: Stay informed about the status of your Task Scheduler jobs with the new email notification feature. You’ll receive alerts when jobs succeed or fail.
  4. Vendor Date Established: Track when a vendor was created with the new Date Established field on the Statistics tab in Vendor Maintenance and Inquiry.
  5. Delete and Change Warehouse Utilities: Streamline your inventory management with the new Delete Warehouses and Change Warehouses utilities, designed to handle virtual and physical warehouse changes efficiently.
  6. Quick Close of Partially Received Purchase Orders: The new Clear Back Order upon Accept checkbox in Receipt of Goods Entry enables you to easily close partially received purchase orders, saving time and effort.
  7. Received Status for Purchase Orders: The new Received order status accurately reflects the state of purchase orders that have been received but not yet invoiced, improving order tracking.
  8. Option to Print Forms for Generated Back Orders: Automatically reset the Print Order and Print Pick Sheets checkboxes in Sales Order Entry for back orders created during the Sales Journal Update, streamlining your back order process.
  9. Demo Data Refresh (Phase 1): Sage 100 demo data has been updated with current industry terms for inventory items and descriptions, providing a more relevant user experience.
  10. Resources Button: Access the Sage Community Hub, Knowledgebase, Product Documents, Sage University, and additional services from a single location with the new Resources button on the Help tab.

These are just a few of the new features in Sage 100 2024 that will help you optimize your business processes and boost efficiency. For a complete list of new features included in the Sage 100 2024 upgrade please follow this link.

Should I Upgrade My Sage 100 or Sage 100c?

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It’s almost year-end time and as part of the annual planning process please review the current version of your Sage 100 or Sage 100c and make a determination on whether an upgrade is needed.

I’ve compiled a handy color-coded chart to display which versions of Sage 100 or Sage 100c should be upgraded before year-end.

KEY: 

  • Marketing Release – This is the marketing version which Sage advertises in their literature
  • Internal Release – This is the short version number Sage refers to the release by. It is shown in the help/about screen.
  • Product Updates Cease – The date when Sage stops issuing bundles of fixes. After this date, you may receive one-off hotfixes but only at Sage’s discretion.
  • Tax Tables End – The last date Sage issues a tax table update or interim download fixes for payroll and accounts payable use. (If you use payroll or issue 1099s this is a VERY important date).

HOW TO TELL WHICH SAGE 100 VERISON YOU USE: 

First, look on your Sage 100 system by going to Help – About. This will display your current release of Sage 100.

Second, take your version number and review the chart above. If your version is shown in either orange or red then you should upgrade before year-end.

The two primary reasons we recommend an upgrade:

  • Product updates are no longer available for your version
  • The payroll tax tables (and resulting year-end interim releases) are no longer available for your version

 

Please don’t wait until the last month of the year to begin your upgrade. Generally, expect at least a one month lead to schedule and perform a typical upgrade.

Contact us for Sage 100 upgrade information  – here.

August 2012 Webinars: Sage CRM, Sage 100 v4.5, BizNet Reporting

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Our webinar calendar for 2012 has just been released. Below are the free sessions we will host during the month of August 2012:

Session 1: How Integrating Sage CRM with Sage 100 ERP (formerly MAS 90 | 200) Drives Business Growth

With Sage CRM and Sage 100 ERP (formerly MAS 90 | 200), you can unify the sales and marketing aspects of your business. CRM supports the whole sales process — from your initial marketing campaign, lead and opportunity generation, quotes, to winning the sale, and finally, to fulfilling the order and providing outstanding customer service. Your marketing department will be able to justify the costs of their campaigns just as your salespeople will be able to track their forecasted sales. Plus, sales managers have a full view of their team’s productivity. Your staff will work more effectively because every aspect of your operations will be connected while your limited or expensive resources are optimized.

  • Sage CRM integration with Sage 100 ERP (formerly MAS 90 | 200)
  • Sage CRM integration with Microsoft Outlook
  • Forecasting within Sage CRM

Date: Tuesday August 14, 2012 – 10 am PT / 1 pm ET – 60 Minutes – REGISTER HERE

Session 2: What’s New in Sage 100 ERP Version 4.5 (formerly MAS 90 | MAS 200)

Sage 100 ERP version 4.5 (formerly MAS 90 and 200) is here, and everything you’ve heard about the new features and benefits are all true and ready for you when you upgrade. In fact, there is so much for everyone that one hour isn’t enough time to cover all of the tremendous enhancements and inclusions, so we will be taking a broad look at the main points that everyone should know about, such as National Accounts for Account Receivable, integrated Customer Relationship Management, and the Reporting Tree capability for financial reports. We’ll also discuss the option to migrate to Sage 100 Premium ERP (SQL server).

Date: Wednesday August 8, 2012 – 10 am PT / 1 pm ET – REGISTER HERE

 Session 3: Meet the next generation excel-based, financial reporting solution for Sage 100, 300, 500 ERP.

BizNet’s award winning Excel® Business Information Suite is the most innovative and intuitive reporting solution on the market.  It is a business reporting and analytics platform that provides real-time access to your business data from Microsoft Office Excel®.  It delivers simple, yet powerful capabilities to anyone who uses spreadsheets to gather and analyze business information.  With over 200 Partners, over 9 ISV’s, and Customers in over 14 different countries, BizNet has been selected as a top reporting solution by industry analysts.

Contact Jeff Keirns at 800-627-9032 x123 to book a demo

 

 

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