Sage Accpac Accounting Software Vancouver Blog – Unisoft

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.

Sage Accpac wants to know your opinion. Sage Accpac now has a website that allows you to vote on new features and enhancements in Sage Accpac.  You can add your own or vote on others. You can also track your enhancements and see which get implemented in future releases.  This is a great way to influence the future of Sage Accpac to better fit your business or your day to day activities.

Check the website and submit your feedback: www.sageaccpac.com
com/feedback

Sage Accpac Product Survey Results: What is the one area you would improve to make Sage Accpac better for you and your company?

• 1. Reporting
  • Simplify Getting Information out of Sage Accpac
  • Make it Easier to Create and Customize Reports
  • Financial Reporting
• 2. Functionality/Features
  • Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable / General Ledger
  • Bank Services Usability
  • Inventory Control
• 3. Usability
  • Faster Data Entry – Streamline Processes
  • Navigation – Faster Access to Supplemental Information

There was a handful of new features in the Sage Accpac ERP v5.6 and Sage CRM v6.3 integration.  Here are some of the features:

• Integrated ERP/CRM Solo Support (Accpac 5.6)
• Customer/Vender Number Change Support
• Improved Salesperson Integration with Accpac 5.6 data
• Relationships Tab
• National Accounts in CRM

Salesperson Codes are Now Synchronized in CRM

Salesperson commision splits now show up on the customer statistics tab in CRM.

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