Welcome to the Sage 50 Canada Support Group on Community Hub! Available 24/7, the Forums are a great place to ask and answer product questions, as well as share tips and tricks with Sage peers, partners, and pros.
Do you have several years of old data slowing your Sage 50 Canada software down? Here's some tips on how to clear old data:
STEP 1: Make a backup.
Once data is cleared, it is no longer available for lookup and cannot be brought back. Make a backup…
General TIP on installs and data conversions:
Sage 50 CA requires full Windows access rights for update installations and data conversions. Even if Sage 50 CA is a cloud-connected software, it's still a classic desktop installation which is designed…
You may have heard that the latest release of the Sage 50 CA re-released version 2020.1 FULL product download is now available (see KB 100797 or French KB 260-1009042 , the download's file size is 395 MB). Not sure which version you have installed? See…
Are you a business with customers who may be residents of California? Changing regulations may impact you.
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect. The CCPA aims to protect the personal information of all California…
Back in June 2019, the entry of invoices and receipts across databases in Sage 50 CA got easier with the announced integration with AutoEntry. Read more about how to get started with that here.
Now we have big news! Sage has acquired AutoEntry. This…
In this follow up, we'll look at how to customize, modify and save an existing report template (the sales analysis report) so it can be reused. Sage 50 Intelligence Reporting Standard enables you to modify an existing report, note that the modifying of…
First thing to check is your edition of Sage 50 CA, is it Pro? If so, then you only have 7 years + the current year of financial data for reporting available. The Premium and Quantum editions allow for a history of 100 years of data.
Side note: Our…
What is the best way to transfer your Sage 50 CA data between computers that accounts for security and database size? The Sage KB article 18188 (French KB 260-1007247 ) gives us the low down.
STEP 1: Get the install file and a copy of your recent database…
How likely is it that someone out there has your data? You can go to a website called www.haveibeenpwned.com (currently the site is English only), type in your email address. It will tell you how many data breaches your information has had. This information…
The original blockchain technology for tracking who did what and when. Why does it matter if your accounting software uses an audit trail or not? Did you know that if you are ever up for auditing by an official, an audit trail is what legitimizes your…
Looking to expand your small business or just want additional features to enable you to do things like mobile invoicing? See the below for details on how to migrate, move or integrate your Sage Accounting data with Sage 50 CA software.
STEP 1: Already…
Are you using Sage 50 Cloud with the Office 365 integration? Do you manage threat protection for your organization? If so, then perhaps you're assuming that you're fully protected from spam and malware. MS Office 365 does have Advanced Threat Protection…
Sage Drive is a syncing feature. What does that mean? The transactions you save to your Sage 50 are instantly saved to your hard drive, but the syncing to the cloud copy might take a minute or so--longer if you have slow internet.
Top tips and tricks…
Where should you keep your data backups? Does Sage hold cloud data in Canada? What are the Canadian/Provincial laws for this? Can data location and sharing be a liability? We've got the answers below in this informative Q&A, reviewed by our Accountant…
Want to integrate your Office 365 license with Sage 50 , but aren't sure how to get started? Follow these easy steps!
Open the "Get started with Microsoft Office 365 services" email you received from Sage Solutions Admin and click the Get Started…
Get those T4s submitted! While hustling did you get stuck due to a missing update or T4 printing issue? Here's the top 12 resources most used for the month of January 2018.
Please see this blog for a list of useful articles on Sage 50's Common Questions…
Activated the software with the wrong name?
To change it in the installed software there are two locations.
Changing the Company Name the Software is Registered With
To update the license, from the main screen of the program, go to the Help menu…
Our Sage Colleague Kim Crabtree over at the Sage BusinessWorks Support team put together this informative blog called " Why is it critical that you back up your data nightly? ". We've adapted it for Sage 50 CA. Thanks Kim!
Why is it so important to…
A team of us have been keeping close tabs on scenarios where users install Sage 50 2018.0 and function fine until they need to update Windows and it fails. Typically we see the errors related to KBs 18047 and or 61504 stating: "Sage 50 has stopped working…
Since the recent Windows 10 updates we've come across cases where Sage 50's welcome screen (under open last company) no longer provides a dropdown option to select different databases.
This feature is supposed to return after opening several companies…
Where can you go to retrieve an Automatic Backup? Anytime a Sage 50 CA database conversion or new year creation takes place the program prompts users to backup. KB 10087 explains that this automatic backup feature has its' default location set to :
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It took a three-round process of elimination to find the database that could meet the software functionality and vision that Sage 50 had in mind. The reason why Sage 50 originally switched to using MySQL as its database standard was because MySQL
"was…
Did you know that Sage 50c now combines the power and productivity of a trusted desktop solution with secure online access and seamless integration with Microsoft Office 365? That’s right, Sage has partnered with Microsoft in order to integrate Sage 50c…
Scare tactics and money upfront requests are warning signs. Sage does not contact clients to warn them about their data issues. We cannot see percentage (%) levels of corruption. 3rd parties do exist for working with Sage Software data. This is useful…