We have just tested the integration of the latest versions of Sage 50 and ACT! and were pleased with the following results:

• You can import all your products from Sage 50 into ACT to use for tracking your sales opportunities;
• You can create a Sales quotation automatically from the products listed on your opportunity;
• When the customer proceeds with the order you can push the Sales Order into Sage 50 from the information listed on the opportunity without any rekeying;
• You can also see up to date customer account financial information within ACT, for example customer balance and invoices outstanding;

In conclusion, the level of integration between Sage 50 and ACT is impressive and should lead to better sharing of information for businesses using both these systems.

If you are interested in purchasing either Sage 50 or ACT! or if you have any questions relating to Sage 50 ACT! integration, please contact James  on (071) 9146815.

If your program version number is currently 18.1.0.8 or earlier you need to apply this update. Please check this in Help->About. If you have already applied updates 1 through 3, you can still install this service pack – it detects which updates are installed and which are missing. You  can download the executable file for Service Pack 1  from here.

Before applying the update, backup your Sage data. Exit Sage and Microsoft Excel.

Your version number should now be 18.1.0.12.

Synergy Network Opening Hours over Christmas are as follows…

Closed December 26th to 28th

Open December 29th, 30th, 10am to 4pm

Closed January 2nd

Business as usual Tuesday January 3rd

As you aware, in the recent budget, the standard rate of VAT will be increased from 21% to 23% from January 1st 2012.

ORT Software has produced a set of guidelines for Hireman Pro users, available from here, outlining the procedure you should follow to get your software updated.

Please contact us on 071 9146815 if you have any queries prior to carrying out these changes.

As you aware, in the recent budget, the standard rate of VAT will be increased from 21% to 23% from January 1st 2012.

Synergy Network has produced a set of guidelines for Exchequer users, available for download from here, outlining the procedure you should follow to get your accounting software updated.

Please contact us on 071 9146815 if you have any queries prior to carrying out these changes.

As you are aware from the recent budget, the standard rate of VAT will be increased from 21% to 23% from January 1st 2012. We have written a set of guidelines for Sage accounts users which is available for download from here outlining the procedure you should follow.

Please ring us with your queries on 071 9146815, prior to carrying out any changes on your accounting software.

Payroll Software Updates Available via Download Only

Your Payroll Year End Update is now available to download. The Budget Update is currently in development following the Budget Announcement by the Government on 6th December 2011. This will be available to download through yourAuto-Update feature and via www.sage.ie/pye. We strongly recommend that you switch on the Auto-Update feature inyour payroll software. This will ensure that you receive all software updates as soon as they are released (including the PYE and Budget Updates). If you haven’t done so already, simply follow steps 1-3 below to switch on the Auto-Update feature:

1. Enter your Sage account number into the program, if you haven’t previously done so. In your payroll program go to the top toolbar, go to Help and then About Quickpay/MicropayProfessional. Select the Edit button and enter your account number. Click OK to save your settings.
2. To turn on the auto update service in your payroll program, go to the top toolbar, go to Tools and then Internet Options. Choose the ‘Recommended’ option and click OK to save your settings.
3. To turn on your Product News Feeds service in your payroll program, go to the top toolbar, go to Help and thenView News. Click on Configure feed. Select the Enable checkbox and click OK to save your settings.

Checklists

Micropay Professional PYE Checklist

Quickpay PYE Checklist

Before applying the update, backup your Sage data. Exit Sage and Microsoft Excel.

Your version number should now be 18.1.0.6.

Before applying the update, backup your Sage data.

Your version number should now be 18.0.13.227.

As a rule, anti-virus software can have a serious impact on the performance of Sage 50 running on a network. In the aforementioned article we outline how, in general, to configure anti virus software so that it doesn’t conflict with Sage. This blog post is an add-on to that article since we would like to specifically mention ESET anti virus software, a package that we have found popular with many of our support clients.

We would like to thank Des from DM Computing for his input to this article. He has devised the best way to configure ESET and passed it on to Synergy Network.

First of all to access exclusions you have to enter “Advanced Setup” – see below.

Then we recommend that you exclude all local Sage directories (as opposed to file extensions) and also your mapped drive to the Sage data (in this example s:).

Follow the rest of our original support article for advice on making reports run faster by creating a temporary reports folder on your computer.