As Your Sage Certified Consultant, Drake Hardware & Software is excited to announce that the New Sage MAS 90 4.4 should be on your doorstep!

As a Sage MAS90 ERP customer, product updates are important for you and your company. A product update is filled with great enhancements in several modules and is released in between major releases. The new Sage MAS 90 4.4 release was scheduled for March 2010 and Drake Hardware & Software has been asked, "What's new in this release?" So here are a few highlights!

Accounts Receivable

Have you ever received a check paying a particular invoice, and had no idea which customer the invoice belonged to? This can happen if your customer has their parent company paying the invoice or by a purchasing agent. The Cash Receipts Entry by Invoice Number now has an Invoice Number field. So now when you enter the Invoice Number, the Customer Number of the first matching Invoice from the Invoice History file will be placed in the Customer Number Field. Remember, to use this feature, you must retain invoice history detail.

Searching for invoices in Invoice History is even faster and many new search field options have been added. You can search by Phone Number, Ship To Zip, PO Number, Invoice Header Comment, Ship To Code, Invoice Date and let's not forget, by invoice history user-defined fields.

Accounts Payable

If you do International trade or just have certain vendors that want wire transfers to pay their invoices, Sage has been listening. This update adds the ability to enter wire transfers in Accounts Payable Manual Check Entry.

Sales Order

Have you ever inadvertently processed a customer order twice and sent duplicate shipments? An existing option in Sales Order setup allows you to check for duplicate customer PO numbers when entering an order. This feature is expanded in the update so that during Sales Order and Sales Order Invoice data entry, if an existing customer PO Number is found, then a pop-up window displays the duplicate that is detected. This will also work with the Accounts Receivable Invoice History file, if specified. Remember, security settings determine if you will receive the warning or if you are prevented from creating an order with the duplicate customer purchase order number.

Another added feature is the ability to control items that your customers may purchase. For example, if you sell a controlled product that can only be sold in certain states, you can setup your system to allow the purchase and shipping to the allowed states only. The new Purchase Control screen will allow you to choose either:

• Prevent customers or orders that reference particular Ship-To state codes from purchasing specific items or specific product lines

• Allow only specified customers or Ship-To state codes to purchase certain items or product lines.

During Sales Order Entry and Sales Order Invoice Entry, if you enter an unauthorized Item Number or an Item Number from an unauthorized Product Line, a warning message will appear. However, your security settings can be set to allow certain users to override the warning.

Credit Card Processing Security

The credit card processing industry has recently updated its security compliance requirements to more strongly guard against credit card fraud. With the update, Sage MAS 90 Credit Card Processing capabilities have been enhanced to be PA-DSS Certified.

Payroll Enhancements

The Product Update offers an enhancement that allows you to set up multiple earning codes per employee that will be automatically populated in Payroll Data Entry and auto pay operations—similar to the way voluntary deductions are currently set up. Nearly an unlimited number of earnings codes and the corresponding earning type (fixed or percentage of pay) can be set up and maintained for each employee.

New eBusiness Web Services With Sage MAS 90 Version 4.4

There is a new module called eBusiness Web Services included with Sage MAS 90 ERP Version 4.4. This module provides an open interface between certain Sage MAS 90 data tables and the Internet.

Sage MAS 90 And eCommerce

You may be wondering what the difference is between eBusiness Manager and the new eBusiness Web Services module. eBusiness Manager is a suite of applets for Sage MAS 90 that allows you to quickly and inexpensively get an eCommerce Web site up and running. This is an excellent choice if you are just getting started with eBusiness and have a Web programmer familiar with the specialized Sage MAS 90 toolset.

What if you already have an eBusiness Web site and want to integrate it into your Sage MAS 90 system?

Enter eBusiness Web Services, the module that connects Sage MAS 90 data to the Internet using any popular programming environment.

In the initial release, Sage had focused on providing access to the data most often used for eCommerce: Customers, Customer Contacts, and Sales Orders. For each of these, the software has the ability to view records, add new records, update existing records, and delete records. For each type of data, the programmer can choose which fields in the file can be displayed and/or written into the Web page.

Is it secure?

eBusiness Web Services require the use of SSL encryption and are used with HTTPS protocol, to provide you with a secure and reliable method of communication. You can specify which Sage MAS 90 users will have access to eBusiness Web Services, and the system recognizes and respects the role-based security built into the software.

There are even more great enhancements to Sage MAS 90 4.4!

If you would like more information on what is Sage MAS 90 4.4, training classes or how Drake Hardware & Software can help you upgrade your current product, feel free to contact us at 319.752.1155 or email us at info@drakehs.com