• Company Vehicle purchases

    Hi All I'm wondering if someone can assist in the best way to record the purchase of company vehicles for a painting company in BC. -This is a sole proprietorship, they buy and sell their vehicles every couple of months, these vehicles are always…
  • HST Amended Returns

    I have just started here and the person previous to me completed the Q3 and Q4 2016 HST returns incorrectly. We owed more in both quarters. HST returns were amended and manual cheques were written for Q3 and Q4 2016 this month (April 2017). I know have…
  • Sudden firewall issues running SAGE

    I have been using SAGE without issue for the past year. All of a sudden yesterday I couldn't open SAGE. I received a troubleshooter message that said that my computer firewall is blocking required processes to access my data. Then is gives me a whole…
  • Invoice numbers in First Step Accounting

    Hi there. I am brand new to Sage. I have the basic program, First Step Accounting. I am trying to figure out how to have my invoices automatically generate the next invoice number. It defaults to '1'. Help please!! Thank you in advance.
  • Database corruption

    SAGE sadly do not work on weekends, no support whatsoever, if you have a problem during the weekend then you are screwed, at least I though I will reach chat support, yet I have been trying to reach CHAT online support, NO, no more chat support during…
  • RE: Linking Equity Accounts

    I have a few questions in the same line... When the Owner decides to take money out of the account for personal use this is how I was told to enter the transaction: 1060 Bank Credit $1000 3015 Owners Withdrawals Debit $1000 Am I doing this…
  • Sage 50 Canadian - printing AP cheques with more than 36 line items

    Sage 50 Accountant edition - How do you print a cheque with more than 36 items in the advice? When we batch print, Sage simply states that "this cheque cannot be printed as it has more than 36 line items. It requires 2 cheques." I recall Sage allowing…
  • Volunteer payments

    Hi. I am doing books for a Non Profit Organization. One of the projects is summer camp for kids where volunteers help out assisting with activities. You may think volunteers don't get paid but the company pays a small amount $100 per volunteer/season…
  • refunds

    we have a client who paid the full amount for a vacation, then decided to change the dates, for a shorter vacation, thus leaving a credit on their account, we credited their credit card with no problems, (Q) how to apply the credit in Sage 50, client…
  • Sage 2012 The file does not exist. Please enter or browse for a valid filename

    I have Windows 8.1 64-bit computer. Recently migrated from Vista. My question is when I try to print Receipt & Forms I am getting this error "The file does not exist. Please enter or browse for a valid filename"
  • Importing Excel Spreadsheet if Sale Transactions to Sage 50- Canadian

    I have a lovely Excel spreadsheet from my customer of all their sales (cash/Interac/ MC sales) from their own customers. I am trying to import it to Sage because it is hundreds upon hundreds of small amounts and inputting each one individually would take…
  • Newbie question

    I started working with this roofing company on March 2015 and before that, I knew nothing about Sage. The former assistant was using QuickBooks and unfortunately, there was nobody able to train me. I decided to take the job since I would be working from…
  • GST

    I have been using Sage 50 for a year...prior to that it was Simply and before that...Bedford... I cannot get my GST added to work in my vendor invoices. I have chosen a tax code of 'G' and a rate of 5% (Alberta vendors only). In Simply...when I chose…
  • payroll

    I am trying to access old payroll records from 2012 in simply accounting but my system only displays the years 2014/2013??
  • Payroll for new Employee and getting it to reflect the right account.

    I am new to Sage accounting. I am trying to set up an employee so that their payroll amount is charged or allocated to a certain account number on the Chart of Accounts (ie Office Wages as opposed to Mechanic Wages). What area do I need to change this…
  • Account Reconciliation Report

    Jan & Feb reports printed ok but now it says No data available. I had been on hold for along time doing my bank recs and so I continued and all months after that say this. How can I fix this - I am starting November 2014 but need reports from March/14…