• Sage BusinessVision 2023 SBE Bug Report - Broken indexes (Actian v15)

    Hi ClarkM and Erzsi_I I see that that a similar question was posted by slacka 6 months ago, and remains unfixed. I don't understand why this issue hasn't been taken seriously. This seems to be a critical issue in the way a client is able to, or in…
  • Back-Ordered Item Error

    We are on the updated Sage Businessvision 2023 edition, but we have been experiencing an unusual problem in the past few months. Random items will show items as "back-ordered" despite there being no outstanding sales orders. That, or the back-ordered…
  • Sage BusinessVision 2023 - AP_TRANSACTIONS.REF_NO - 25 Character Field limited to 10 chars in the front end GUI

    AP_TRANSACTIONS.REF_NO has a 25 character field limit, however the use of this field has been limited in the BusinessVision front end GUI to 10 characters. It appears that this is because the cheque number field in system setup is limited to 10 characters…
  • Sage BusinessVision 2023 SBE Bug Report - Duplicate Customer Records created in POS Module

    We have reported this bug on several occasions dating back to 2019 but it still exists as of Oct 03, 2023 After adding a customer in the POS module, and creating a sale, then pressing the tender button, the payment details screen pops up. (The customer…
  • Sage BusinessVision 2023 SBE Bug Report - legitimate Sales posted that do not pass Data Validation

    If a sale is tendered for $0.01 or $0.02 or -$0.01 or -$0.02, and tendered with "Cash & Cheque Receipts" selected as the payment method, BusinessVision will apply penny rounding and will round the total to $0.00. This will post a journal entry that…
  • Exporting Data to Excel

    How do I activate this option? We have excel on workstations, but not on server where BV runs, and cannot export data files to excel (see "grayed" Excel option in pic). Thanks for any help.
  • BusinessVision licence - activation - 5 User LAN Pack license

    Hi everyone, I recently upgraded to the latest 2019 BusinessVision from an earlier version. I understood the 2019 has a built in 5-user license. I had the 5 user LAN pack with the old version. When I upgraded, I expected to see 10 user because…
  • The Sage BusinessVision Control File for the company selected is currently being used by another user. The company selected cannot be accessed by Sage BusinessVision at the present time.

    Hi i have the lastest version of BV running on a server with Server 2016. I have the 10 user lanpack installed and this has been working perfectly for the past 6 years. All of a sudden only 1 user is able to connect to the data file at any time. I checked…
  • Open previous year file

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    FormerMember
    How does one access Business Vision files from earlier years? The program does not seem to follow Windows convention that clicking on the word File on the upper ribbon does not give an option to locate and load a file.
  • Need DB definition for Sales History Detail field (ITEM_TYPE)

    I'm wondering if I can ask a more technical question here. In the DB table SALES_HISTORY_DETAIL, there is a field called ITEM_TYPE which seems to store values from 0-9. However in the Database Structure Help where with other similar fields the list of…
  • "Out with the old, in with the new". Why reviewing your software make sense.

    Many of our customers have been using our products for years. Yet these customers' business may have evolved - perhaps through growth, maybe through a change in strategic direction, even changes in compliance or similar. Change also comes from younger…
  • Product numbers

    Hello! Our legacy data includes special characters and odd formatting for part numbers that I guess we made up along the way and I want to standardise them. Is there a way to wholesale change part numbers where, for example: export part numbers…
  • Vendor Price Lists

    Hello, Is there a way to import Vendor Price lists from excel so that the prices are updated for existing products and so that new products are added into inventory? Thanks, Dave
  • Vendor Selling Price Upload Question

    Hello, would like some help/advice. We uploaded a vendor selling price file into BV and there were about 8000 parts. We later found out we only use 1000 of the parts therefore the system updated 7000 additional parts. Is there an easy way to delete…