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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…