Keeping in Touch
Getting the Most from Your Sage MAS 90 / 200 Investment
March 2009, Issue 16 |
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| Greetings! |
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Oops, I'm late. I committed to myself that I would have the newsletter out on the first business day of each month. Were you wondering what happened, or are you still hiding under the bed away from the cold and the economic news reports?
The focus of this edition of Keeping in Touch is a to give you a few new reasons to contact us and also to highlight something in your Sage MAS / 200 software that you may not be aware of.
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| FastSupport |
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For almost a year now, we have been experimenting with a remote support tool called FastSupport. This tool has made connecting to clients very quick and painless. So, if we are speaking with you and ask you go to www.fastsupport.com, you'll know how it's spelled. I usually say 'fast vs slow' to clarify the name, but sometimes my humor is lost! Once you're on that site, you'll be asked to provide your name and a 9 digit support key which we will give you (this key changes each time we start a session). If we are emailing back and forth, we may ask you to click on a specific link that includes this website. If you do, then you will not need to enter your name or the support key.
This remote support option allows us to take over control of your keyboard. As well, we can copy files from your system to our system or vice versa.
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| Start with Us! |
If you are considering adding, buying, integrating something that somehow, somewhere, sometime connects to Sage MAS 90 / 200, ask us first.
We may or may not have worked with a specific solution, but we might have someone we can recommend or at least point you in the right direction. It might even be a product that we have implemented before. Hard to believe, but we often know more information than just Elvis' favorite snack (sorry, I was forced to write that!).
So, click here to email us to start an exchange of ideas. Some examples of solutions include EDI, bar coding, banking links, EFT, SalesLogix, SageCRM, Fixed Assets tracking, automating some basic tasks, report writers, and website connectivity. |
| Using Saved Form and Report Settings |
Starting with Sage MAS 90 / 200 version 4, you now have the ability to save form and report settings. Once the module has been updated to version 4 programming standards, any changes made to the form printing screens (Sales Order printing, Invoice printing, etc) and the report screens (AR Aged Invoice Report, GL Trial Balance, AP Check History, etc) can be saved. For example, when Mary prints the AR Aged Invoice Report, she likes to print the report in summary format and uses a modified report that omits the customer contact information -- this can be done by creating a new report setting and then modifying a copy of the standard report in Crystal Reports. If set up correctly, this modified report is stored outside of the standard reports storage area and will not get replaced when an upgrade is done.
Assuming that your Sage MAS 90 / 200 login allows you access to these features, you can click on the down arrow in the top right hand corner, click Save As and then create a new form or report setting.
One thing to keep in mind when printing forms and reports in version 4 modules is that if the setting is called STANDARD, any changes that you make on that screen will not be saved. If you create a new setting, any changes made on that screen will be saved and will be used next time the form setting or report setting is used.
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| Visual Integrator -- Did you Know? |
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Recently, we have been engaged to do some pretty cool things in Visual Integrator. In addition to running a VI job unattended at night, we have set up the import job to import from another MAS 90 table. Running the VI job attended each night means that data updates are being done while you sleep and no user intervention is required.
Click here to email us to start a dialog on how you might use this in your business. |
| Post-Dated Cheques |
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How do you handle post-dated cheques? If you're asked to provide cheques for a year in advance, you probably go into Manual Check Entry and print/post each cheque one month at a time.
Recently, we have had a few clients contact us to find out if there is a better solution. We have discussed this with a Sage MAS 90 / 200 Master Developer and can have a modification written so that when you enter the cheque in Manual Check Entry, you will have the option to add a posting date to the screen and it will post to the AP, GL, and BR modules using this posting date. This way, you can enter all the cheques at the same time and print/post once -- but each cheque will get posted to the correct date.
If you're interested in this enhancement, let us know by clicking here. If we get enough responses, we may be able to share the cost of this development among many clients.
This solution is not available to our American clients as post-dated cheques are not legal in many states.
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We look forward to your feedback and your ideas for future issues of our newsletter. Please let us know how we can help you Get the Most from Your Sage MAS 90 / 200 Investment.
Sincerely,
Shabnam and Robert |
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