Earlier this year, Sage realized the 2015 version of Sage 100 ERP, which comes with over 60 product enhancements to make your current Sage 100 ERP investment even more powerful with increased productivity, efficiency and profitability.
As we approach the final quarter of the year, now might be a great time, to start reviewing your current Sage 100 product usage, discover ways to improve your business processes, and upgrade your Sage ERP system.
If you are currently looking to move to Sage, these new product enhancements along with the already existing robust features of Sage might help you with your buying decision.
Sage 100 New Accounting Features:
- Sage 100 General Ledger
- Sage 100 Accounts Payable
- Sage 100 Accounts Receivable
- Sage 100 Bank Reconciliation
16 New Sage 100 Features for Automating Accounting Processes
1. Sage 100 New General Ledger (GL) Features:
At the core of any accounting system is the general ledger. The new Sage 100 has many general ledger enhancements including:
- Automatic Default of Print Full comments Checkbox in Journals/Registers
Save time with this new enhancement by quickly checking the box to print full comments when printing journals or registers. Additionally, the checkbox stays checked until the next time you uncheck the box. You can save those extra minutes of printing, reprinting and having to make this selection every time.
- GL Account Numbers Are Auto-Formatted During Entry in Report Selection Grids
With the 2015 Sage 100, General ledger numbers are auto-formatted according to the GL account number mask, to prevent errors when printing a report while at the same time saving you time.
- Out of Balance Message Printed on the GL Detail Report
View accounts that are not balanced at a glance in the new General Ledger report. All out-of-balance errors are printed in bold next to report totals.
- Sort and Select by Account When Generating The GL Account Audit Report
Save time by easily sorting through the account Audit Report by user or by account number to generate reports that help you track changes made by a specified range of users and accounts.
- One-click Journal Reversals
Ever wanted to reverse a journal entry due to an error posted? With the new Sage 100 ERP 2015, you can quickly and easily reverse your journal entry with a single click.
2. Sage 100 New Accounts Payable Features
- Additional UDF Data Sources in Manual Check and Payment Entry
Match user-defined fields for manual checks and payment entries with the new 2015 release of Sage 100. Manual check and payment entry tasks allow you to easily process checks on-the fly with the same consistent data elements to improve efficiency and accuracy. This new feature also allows you to pull invoice AP History Header data to check detail in UDF for easy check printing.
- Expanded Vendor Name to 50 Characters
With the Sage 100 2015 release, the length of vendor name has been expanded to 50 characters to avoid transactions with truncated payee names. This enhancement expands across all vendor facing reports and forms.
- Select Invoices from any Purchase Transfer Vendor in Manual Check and Payment Entry
Select multiple invoices from a purchase vendor to simplify the process of transferring and paying vendors with the new Sage 100 ERP.
- New Sort Options for Vendor Audit Report
Sort your vendor reports by the vendor number and select just the vendors you want to review with the new sort options available in Sage 100. Quickly determine who made changes to certain vendor records and what was changed for a specific vendor or range of vendors.
- New Sort Options in Selection Dialogs
The new multiple column sort option in selection windows for Sage 100, is modeled after familiar Excel column sorting functionality allowing you to easily sort selected columns to help speed up your search with easy record sorting. Find and sort just the record or records that you want.
3. Sage 100 New Accounts Receivable Features
- Cash Receipts List Button Added
Provide quick answers to your customers with the new cash receipts list button. The new cash receipts list button allows you to sort cash receipts deposit or cash receipts entry in a convenient easy screen. Quickly locate your entries to save time while improving customer satisfaction.
- Options Added to Print Invoices Through Sage Data Cloud
Easily track and manage invoices from when it was sent, received and opened by quickly printing, resending or reprinting from Sage Billing Payment.
- Sort Options Added for Customer Audit Report
The customer audit feature with Sage 100 now offers more flexible sorting options for viewing changes for specific customers or range of customers. Easily sort and select customer numbers and save time.
4. Sage 100 Bank Reconciliation
- New Sample Format Available in Positive Pay Export Wizard
Positive pay allows you to prevent fraud by making sure that only the checks you authorize to be paid by your bank are funded. Sage 100 ERP alleviates the challenge with not knowing the right format to transmit to banks by offering a number of sample formats. Currently banks available include, Bank of America, Chase, Fleet, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and newly added – Capital One Bank.
- The Remit To Name Now Written to Bank Reconciliation During Accounts Payable Check Register Update
Previously, the payee name in Bank Reconciliation was always under the vendor name. In the 2015 update, the Remit To Name will now be written to Bank Reconciliation during AP Check Register Update and Manual Check Register Update so Bank Reconciliation Positive Pay Export will export the correct payee name.
- Multi-column Sort Available in Bank Reconciliation
Enjoy the ease and flexibility of having multiple column sorting options available for Bank Reconciliation tasks. For instance, as shown in the image below, the new search criteria allows you to quickly sort all of the cleared checks to help you save time when reconciling bank records.
Looking to upgrade your current Sage 100? Ask for a quick price quote or demo to see the new features.