Improved LanPak Licensing in Sage ERP 300

In the latest version of Sage ERP 300 (Accpac) There is an improved LanPak licensing engine. You now only need one LanPak to open multiple company databases from the Sage 300 ERP Desktop or Portal. Note: You must open the databases from the same workstation using the same Windows profile....

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Taking the BS out of Sage BI Tools

SAGE ERP 2012, Sage ERP Accpac 31/10/2012 by Stacey Orrock No Comments

Taking the BS out of Sage BI Tools If you are like me you have heard the word BI or Business Intelligence tools but you are a little confused about what this actually means.  BI has been around a long time, according to Wikipedia, the term Business Intelligence was first used in 1958 by IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn.  So it’...

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Sage ERP 2012 Visual Process Flows

Sage ERP Accpac 5/10/2012 by Stacey Orrock No Comments
Sage ERP 2012 Visual Process Flows

Sage 300 ERP has some exciting new features; I have to admit I installed it just so I could check out and play with one of these new features which is the Process Flows. The Visual Process Flows are a big step towards users being able to streamline their processing and make it easier for clients to learn processes. The process flows provide a clear view of t...

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Best Upgrade Ever!

Sage ERP Accpac 23/5/2012 by Stacey Orrock No Comments

I was recently involved in a major upgrade at a client site.  I won’t name the Client but let’s call them a “SA Business”, although after the success of this upgrade I would sure want to be named. Around 8 months ago we started to have weekly meetings, and identified that their current version of Sage Accpac, 5.4, needed to be upgraded. This alone would have been fine, however Accpac ...

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Why it’s valuable to spend time talking to your consultant.

Sage ERP Accpac 28/3/2012 by Stacey Orrock No Comments

Ok so your company have been using Accpac for years now, multiple users have come and gone and no one on staff has actually had any training. I ask you 'Do you really think you are getting the most out of your system?'. With remote access these days, some of our clients don't get visits from us very often, but it's these visits that are truly valuable. Sometimes the most valuable changes ...

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Sage ERP Accpac Year End Tips

Sage ERP Accpac, Tips and Tricks 21/5/2011 by Stacey Orrock No Comments
Sage ERP Accpac Year End Tips

Hot Tip #1 - Processing on Day 1 of a new Financial Year

Creating the New Year

On the first day of a new year you may not be ready to close your General Ledger but you will certainly want to continue processing new transactions in your submodules.

For example, you would like to continue raising sales invoices ...

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Sage Accpac Service Packs 17/2/11

Sage ERP Accpac 17/2/2011 by Stacey Orrock No Comments

Please contact your consultant prior to loading these service packs.  This should be used as a list of available service packs only. Version 5.6 Product Updates

Sage Accpac 6.0 FAQ

Sage ERP Accpac, Software Development 19/1/2011 by Branko Pedisic No Comments

An interesting read from Stephen Smith's blog site. (Stephen is the chief architect at Sage). This particular blog article is an interesting FAQ on the new Sage ERP Accpac 6 along with a heap of his other 6.0 related blogs linked at the bottom of his post.

http://smist08.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/accpac-6-...

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Latest Accpac Service Packs as at 28/10/2010

Sage ERP Accpac 28/10/2010 by Stacey Orrock No Comments
Latest Accpac Service Packs as at 28/10/2010

Version 5.6 Product Updates

  • All-in-one 5.6 Product Update (PU1)- (Accpac56aPU1.zip)

 
 
 

Current Product Updates

  • Account Code Change (PU3)- (sg55apu3.zip)
  • Accounts Payable (PU3) - (ap55apu3.zip)
  • Accounts Receivable (PU3) - (ar55apu3.zip)
  • AR I...

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Sage Accpac “Entered By” – Hot Tips

Sage ERP Accpac, Tips and Tricks 7/10/2010 by Stacey Orrock No Comments
Sage Accpac “Entered By” – Hot Tips

Many times our Accpac customers ask us to track who actually entered a transaction. The Audit Fields are fine until a utility such as database dump/load is used and these fields often get updated to the user who ran the utility eg ADMIN, losing an important audit trail.

There is an automatic “entered by” field in Sage Accpac ...

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