Archive for April, 2012

Sage Summit, the annual partner and user conference for all Sage products, is scheduled for August 12-17 (partner days August 12-14, customer days August 14-17) in Nashville. Understanding that any attendee can make or break their experience, regardless of the content, it seems these reasons apply to Sage Summit and any other conference or event [...]

Let’s put aside the argument for or against meetings for a moment. We may be closer to eliminating unnecessary meetings but we all still have schedules to manage. Because I want to eliminate questions of my availability and the associated email threads and phone tags, I choose to publish my calendar. I can use my [...]

Join Avalara’s sales tax expert, Wendy Leonard to discuss best practices in managing exemption certificates. The webinar is one hour and is offered at no cost.

As part of Avalara’s Sales Tax Management Thought Leadership Series, Dan Thompson, President of Thompson Tax & Associates LLC, explains how sales tax automation affects the outcome of an audit.

As part of Avalara’s Sales Tax Management Thought Leadership Series, Dan Thompson, President of Thompson Tax & Associates LLC, explains how to prepare for a sales tax audit.

We wrapped another successful online user group meeting last week. With the calendar turning on the first quarter of the year and users receiving instructions from their CPAs, we talked about closing the fiscal year and closing the quarter in Payroll. A note of caution –  always confirm the number of years set to retain [...]

Sage MAS 200 user Cal Pac Painting is  hosting a document shredding event to benefit Kiwanis International. If you are using Paperless Office, you can be confident that your records have been filed and indexed electronically.

As part of Avalara’s Sales Tax Management Thought Leadership Series, Dan Thompson, President of Thompson Tax & Associates LLC, explains how and why businesses are selected for audit.

Processing payment card transaction through Sage 100, formerly Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 began with the integration of PC Charge. The process was advanced by Sage Payment Solutions which plans to add these features to Sage 100 in coming releases: Storing cardholder data in a remote, secure, PCI-compliant Sage Exchange vault with end-users no [...]

Last month we learned that Hightower, a Sage partner and developer, was undergoing changes. While all of the details have not (and may never) come to light, we have learned (through a notice included below) that SWK Technologies, another Sage partner and developer, has assumed responsibility for the Hightower enhancement portfolio and announced release dates [...]