• How to give your customers a customer number

    For one of my application I have a list of my customers and it requires me to give them a unique ID so we deicded to go with numbers 5000-0000-0001 and it increases everytime a new customer is made Now is there any way for me to give my customers in sage…
  • dbClient.GetConnectionInfo(szFileDir, szHost, szPort) parameters

    I'm writing an application in VB.NET to run custom queries against the Sage 50 database. I've gone through the SDK manuals, but have some additional questions while walking through the sample code. We run the connection manager on the server and install…
  • Doing books for two different companies

    I've been using Sage 50 for a number of years to do books for a company. There are three of us who access the company db so we have the db file located on a shared computer. I recently set up a new set of books for a new company. I will be the only one…
  • Changing a sole proprietor to incorporated company

    I have a client that is a sole proprietor and is changing to be incorporated. There bank manager is telling them they do not need to start a new bank account but I don't know how to get a clean break if he doesn't. He has receivables and payable should…
  • Error when switching between companies "this file doesn't exist"

    Using Sage50 Premium 2015, single user; Windoww 8. Have three companies. Company A is open - I want to work on Company B so I go to "Open Company" and this has always worked in the past. Now however, it gives me an error message "Company A.SAI This file…
  • Finding Sales & Purchase History

    New to Sage 50 Premium. Was using Business Vision. How do I find an order we sold to a client without an invoice #? How do I look up sales history for a particular part?
  • cant find company data files ?

    I have Safe premium Accounting 2013 for school and the text book says: " Locate the folder C:\SageData13 where you installed the data " Double Click the SageData13 folder to open it Double Click the Murial Folder to open it " I have the sage application…
  • Payments window does not show data

    Hi there, I have had a problem with my program as of late. Where when you open the payments selection under payables and select a company it does not show any invoices as being owed, simply blank data. But when you click on the fields an amount shows…
  • Expenses after selling business

    My boss has sold his business - it was an asset sale. The business was in a corporation, so my boss retains the shares but is no longer operating. One of the requirements of selling the business was that my boss has to pay for renovations to the premises…
  • Chart of Accounts (7 Digits) Invalid Entry When Entry is Between 1999001 and 1999999

    Using Sage 50 Premium Accounting (Release 2015.1), with General (Accounts) "Number of digits in account number" set to 7. When I attempt to create a new account in the chart of accounts, the following ranges: 1999001 - 1999999, 2999001 - 2999999,…
  • Can you have 2 databases open at once?

    Using Sage 50 Premium 2015.1 Can you have 2 different databases open at once so you can toggle between them? I want to be able to lookup data in one and post in the other.
  • run time error 75 path/file access error

    hi since this morning I have this error and the EFT direct closes. The EFT direct was working well before and I try to find what happened since...and I verified all the info on company maintenance. (that are not supposed to be changed) I work on…
  • Bad Debts

    When a business receives an NSF cheque I normally enter it as ($100.00 cheque) CR bank acct $100.00 DR GST adj for $5.00 and bad debts for $95.00. If the client makes the cheque good later on I enter it as a normal cheque. Is this the right way to handle…
  • Financial History

    Hi, I have the SA pro, which is 7 years of financial history. 2015 will be year #7, what happens once I'm in my 7th year with the program? Thanks Alana