Archive for Sage MAS 90/200

Sage MAS Intelligence Demo Video

Many of you have gotten letters from Sage about the new Sage MAS Intelligence (SMI) reporting tool. This demo video provides an overview of Sage MAS Intelligence. Sage MAS Intelligence is Sage’s replacement for the soon to be retired Microsoft FRx. It is an Excel based plugin that reads Sage MAS 90/200 data and presents [...]

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How can I update all of my customers’ addresses to be uppercase in Sage MAS 90 or MAS 200?

We’ve all done it at one point or another. We setup some of our addresses in ALL CAPS and accidentally setup others in Mixed Case. As Brett Zimmerman points out over on the 90 Minds blog, the Upper Case Address Utility (or SWUPCS) is a “Hidden Utility” in Sage MAS 90/200 for converting Customer and [...]

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How To Post GL Bank Fees and Adjustments From the Bank Rec Module in Sage MAS 90 / MAS 200

One of the new features in Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 4.40 PU 3 is the ability to post Bank Fees and Adjustments to the General Ledger from the Bank  Reconciliation module. This has to be one of the most requested features for any user of the MAS 90 Bank Rec module. From Modules [...]

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Alert! Do Not Install MAS 90 4.40 PU3 Yet

awn Anastasi of C&G Consulting just uncovered a bug in Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 Product Update 3 and reported it over on the Sage MAS Commmunity. The /C comment lines do not carry over from Sales Orders to Invoices. Just for verification, I had to test it out myself and sure enough here’s [...]

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Free and Less Expensive Ways to Get Help with Sage MAS 90 / MAS 200

Frequently every Sage MAS 90 / MAS 200 consultant gets contacted asking for free help. Either they or their employer is unwilling to spend money on their ERP solution or getting help. Maybe they’ve had a bad experience with a previous consultant or they’ve gone over budget or just short on cash (or cheap). There [...]

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New PCI-DSS Requirements

If you accept credit cards (Who doesn’t these days?), there are new requirements that have been developed by the major credit card companies to insure customer data security. The new rules are known as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). There are 12 requirements for compliance that fall into six categories: Build and Maintain [...]

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Sage is now offering up to 15% off Multi-year Maintenance Plans

Sage is now offering a new Multi-year Policy: 2 years: 5% discount (multiply this year’s 1-year renewal amount by 0.95, then multiply that by 2) 3 years: 10% discount 5 years: 15% discount The Multi-Yr can be paid through your reseller or Sage. This is a new incentive that Sage is promoting to end users. If you [...]

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Sage MAS 90/200 The Road Ahead

These are my notes from the Sage Insights 2009 Conference on Sage MAS 90/200: The Road Ahead MAS 90/200 The Road Ahead Summary Customer number will be 20 characters. For existing users there is a setting to convert from seven characters, but once that setting is changed, there is no going back. All new implementations [...]

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