The menus and tasks in MAS 90 and MAS 200 are a part of the launcher. It is where you start your tasks and we you open MAS 90 or MAS 200, it looks the same for every user, but different users have different jobs and need access to differnet items. Without the expense of [...]

The Bank Reconciliation module is your cash management tool. Integrated modules write transactions and adjustments can be made within Bank Rec giving you accurate, timely information about your bank account balances. Bank Rec is a core function of MAS 90 and MAS 200 that most customers don’t take full advantage of. With Bank Rec, balancing [...]

In a new article, Suzanne at Plugin.com summarizes some recent studies. Two items in particular stand out for me The average retrieval/refiling time for a paper document: 10 minutes. However, about 3% of documents are lost or misfiled, leading to a recovery rate of $120 per document. (Study by the Gartner Group, Coopers & Lybrand, [...]

As of July 1, 2009 sales tax in Clark County will increase from 7.75% to 8.1% based on an increase of the Local School Support Tax. If you are selling taxable items, the changes to your tax tables will be key. To calculate sales tax properly, the changes will need to be made after all [...]

Sage Summit, the annual end-user conference for products like ACT!, Peachtree and of course MAS 90 and MAS 200 is scheduled for November 9-12 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. I haven’t had an opportunity to attend Sage Summit in the past but my experiences at the latest vendor conferences, Sage Insights, have [...]

All Sage FAS 50, 100 and 500 end-users with current SupportPlus plans are eligible for the 2009.1.1 release from Sage. You can read the complete list of updated forms, limits, extension in the What’s New document. A new feature available in this release is the Asset Snap Shot, a dashboard summary of your asset information [...]

During the month of June, Sage is offering Free Anytime Learning training course with the purchase of  ACT! Premium – Corporate Edition – Upgrade (ACT! by Sage Premium 2009 and ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2009. These are version 11.0 for anyone keeping track of releases. Free shipping is available and payments can be delayed [...]

Different users have very specific needs for data entry. Here is an issue we found recently and how we resolved it. You can also watch a full screen version of the video. What are the specific data entry needs of some of your users?