Keeping in Touch
Getting the Most from Your Sage MAS 90 / 200 Investment 
December 2010, Issue 36
Newsletter Contents
Quote to Ponder
The Free Cruise
The Power of MAS
Year End Tip
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Greetings!
 
It's the end of 2010.  Where did the year go?

We wish you and your family a very happy holiday season.  Take time to enjoy family, friends, and warm weather if you can!

We hope that our newsletter will spark some ideas on how you can Get More from Your Sage MAS 90 / 200 Investment.

As always, we value your feedback on our monthly newsletters.  Click here to let us know how we're doing.

Quote to Ponder
In the computer world, hardware is anything you can hit with a hammer, software is what you can only curse at.
  - unknown


The Free Cruise
Last year at Christmas time, we went on a Southern Caribbean cruise.  In true Shabnam-style, she got into the spirit of things and responded to the call of Bingo-Bingo-Bingo.  Even though she bought only ONE card, she won.  Yes, she won a free cruise for two!

Bon voyage Shabnam -- enjoy your cruise next week.

The Power of MAS
Are you taking advantage of all of the benefits of the current release of Sage MAS 90 / 200 (some features require additional software license or maintenance costs)?
  • Paperless Office to store journals and registers so you don't need to waste paper
  • Paperless Office to email orders, invoices, and statements so you save money in paper and mailing costs
  • Credit Card Processing with Sage Payment Solutions for fully integrated credit card authorization and charging; securely store credit card information
  • Visual Integrator to import new item price lists
  • Business Insights Explorer to analyze your customer and inventory data in a whole new way -- the power is all at your fingertips
  • Custom Office scripting to manage those special rules to calculate commissions
  • Crystal Reports to design reports to help manage your business and save time
  • Exporting your data to Excel easily so you can analyze your data -- once or many times

Year End Tip - Company Copy

From time you time, you might want to make a copy of your live company data so that you have a copy for testing purposes or other reasons.

 

In Sage MAS 90 / 200 v4.0 and higher, you can do this quite easily.  Let's assume that you want to create a copy of your ABC company into your TST test company

 

Go to Library Master | Main | Company Maintenance, create or select the company code TST, click on the Copy button, then select the source company (ABC, in this example).  Select the modules that you want copied (usually all of them), then click Proceed.  After this is done, your TST company now has all the same data as the ABC company.  Keep in mind that your forms are not copied in this manner, so you may not have a complete working copy.

 
We look forward to your feedback and your ideas for future issues of our newsletter.  If you would like to contribute an article to a future newsletter, we'd love to have your contribution.  Please let us know how we can help you Get the Most from Your Sage MAS 90 / 200 Investment.
 
Sincerely,
 
    Shabnam and Robert