Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

#1 – Excel Based Business Reporting Tool

Sage Accpac Intelligence is the business reporting and analysis tool you have been waiting for. It’s easy to use interface allows you to quickly generate Excel based reports allowing to analyze the data quickly and efficiently in Excel.

#2 – Simplified Bank Reconciliations

Let’s be honest, bank reconciliations in previous versions of Sage Accpac were complex and you had to go to multiple screens to complete one bank reconciliations. In the bank reconciliation you get one tab to manage all your transactions allowing you to quickly clear them.

#3 – Reduced Upgrade Costs

Upgrading to the most recent version of Sage Accpac has been by far the fastest and simplest upgrade by our consultants and we are passing the savings on to you.  Sage has made an active effort to reduce the number changes that impact the cost to upgrade resulting in a more affordable upgrade that takes less time.

Call Unisoft Today to Schedule your Upgrade! (604) 926-3398

The PCI compliance deadline of July 1st, 2010 is fast approaching.  Do you know if your company meets the requirements of PCI-DSS?  If not you should take the appropriate steps as soon as possible as you may loose your ability to process credit cards.

PCI-DSS are a set of 12 requirements that fall into 6 categories. For more information about Sage Accpac and PCI compliance please visit the the Sage Accpac website on PCI compliance.

If you need assistance with ensuring your business meets the PCI-DSS requirements please contact Unisoft at 604 926-3398 or info@unisoft.net.

More and more Canadian small to medium sized businesses are implementing customer relationship management (CRM) systems to improve their customer interactions.  Are you considering CRM for your business? If you are you should know how implementing a CRM system can create value in your business.

1) Increase Customer Retention: In a tough economy focusing on your existing customer base and customer retention is arguably a businesses top priority.  CRM let’s you manage all of your customer touch points and enhance the customer experience ensuring customers needs are met.

2) Discover more cross selling opportunities: Properly identifying cross-selling opportunities is a challenging task without being able to segment your customers. With a CRM system you are able to quickly and easily generate marketing campaigns targeted at a specific customer segment and then identify any opportunities generated from that campaign.

3) Enhanced customer satisfaction: Customer satisfaction can be invaluable to a business; if your customers aren’t satisfied with your service they won’t be referring you business.  Managing and automating the customer experience through a CRM system allows you to ensure the best possible service is given to all customers.

4) Reduced Operational Costs: Increased productivity leads to reduced operational costs and by improving communication in the office between staff you quickly reduce the time to complete common tasks. If you have all the information about a customer in one place (CRM) you are able to make better decisions and involve less staff and take less time to complete tasks.

5) Automate customer-oriented business processes: Automation of customer-oriented business processes such as sales, marketing and customer service allows your organization to respond quicker to customer needs in a productive and organized fashion. Automation ensures all customer requests are process appropriately and are not lost and is the key to achieving the above benefits of CRM.

Unisoft has been implementing business and accounting software systems for small to medium sized businesses for over 20 years. We have worked with companies large and small to create value and enhance their business processes.  Please feel free to contact us (604 926-3398 or sales@unisoft.net) to talk about CRM and the value it can create for your business.

Trends Electronics with services of Unisoft has just launched a web store fully integrated with Sage Accpac ERP.  The web store offers complete integration with their back office accounting software.

By implementing the web store Trends saves valuable employee time by having their customer place the orders for them. These orders are then automatically inserted into their current Sage Accpac ERP accounting software requiring no change to existing business processes. In addition, their sales representatives are able to quickly check availability and pricing of an item while visiting their customers sites.  The store also offers online payment of invoices and account statement  lookup 24×7 reducing unnecessary calls to the customer support representatives reducing employee time spent servicing existing customers and freeing up time on improving business process and acquiring new customers.

If you think you’re business could benefit from an integrated web store then talk with Unisoft today @ +1 (604) 926-3398.

Sage has launched a new business management blog to help medium sized businesses.  The blog has numerous authors that have a diverse background from product managers at Sage to marketing professionals.  I think this is going to turn out to be an excellent resource for both Unisoft and our customers.

Now Available is Sage Accpac v5.5 Product Update 3.  Previously Sage Accpac released service packs, product updates are similar except they have enhancements and new features as well as bug fixes.  For full details of the update you can check out the PDF available here:

http://support.accpac.com/TechSupport/Service_Packs/a4w/WhatsNewInPU3.pdf

This update was primarily fixes to problems and did not have any enhancements or new features.

I’m not sure how many people know this but Sage is #1…

Well, the #1 choice for business software for small and medium sized businesses.  I think this is actually quite a significant piece of information for those of you deciding to choose which business software to run your business on.  You need to know the company developing the software is going to be there in 5 years and is going to come out with consistent product updates. Having a stable company with a large budget behind the software you choose for your business is a big plus.

It’s also quite important that Sage Software has the largest market share because it shows that 15% of businesses worldwide decide to use Sage for the accounting software.  That means these businesses went through some process and/or analysis to make the decision of what accounting software they would use and came to the conclusion that Sage was the right choice for them. That means Sage is definitely doing something right!

Sage has been working on a new version of Sage Accpac, v6.0 and a new version of Sage CRM, v7.0 which is scheduled to come out some time before the summer of 2010.  This new “next generation” of Accpac will come with a Web 2.0 interface. Have a look at Sage Accpac vision and product plan white paper to learn more.

With this new release, Sage Accpac will be implementing something called Sage SData. Sage SData is a new data layer for Sage products that will allow some extremely powerful integration between products, allowing you to access and modify data from different applications quite easily using common web standards.  For example, this will enable you to easily  be able to access Sage Accpac accounting data from within Sage CRM with a simple point and click interface or quickly lookup information from your iPhone or blackberry.  Have a look at the Sage CRM demo of SData that covers creating widgets that include Sage Accpac ERP data as an example.

This is going to open up some extremely interesting opportunities in the Sage product market.

This is probably the most commor error that occurs in Sage Accpac ERP, “Control not properly installed” and occurs because you do not have sufficient rights on the workstation.

Solution:

1. Add the User to the Local “Power User” group for the computer
2. OR, Give specific permissions (Read and Write to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE key, AND Grant Full Access to the program files folder usually C:\Program Files\Sage Software\Sage Accpac\)

Just a small bit of information that might help you out, it can be a difficult error to resolve unless you know the cause.