Sage Fixed Assets

The estimated life of some of our leasehold improvements has changed. I was reading one discussion which suggested changing it to RV, but that doesn't give me the correct values for the new date(s).

Is it possible for make fields required based off other field values? For example, we want to require a serial number and model number for assets in a specific class.

I'm trying to figure out what depreciation method I should use for a new security system my company just purchased. I know with the updates to qualified improvement property from the CARES Act it's estimated life will be 15 years and it's eligible for…

Fiscal year end for a company is 12/31/2019. They've been keeping their books in another system. They want to import assets with depreciation already taken through 12/31/2019. Is it necessary to import into the Beginning YTD field? The documentation…

I am having trouble opening sage fixed assets. When I try to open it comes up with this error message "the application has failed to start because its side by side configuration is incorrect." Has anyone else had this problem?

Hi, I am trying to upgrade Safe fixed asset network from 2017.0 to 2020.1. but first, i need to upgrade from 2017.0 to 2017.1, then from 2017.1 to 2018.1 When I initiated the 2018.1 setup it says: “the installation will upgrade to the 2018.1 release…

All clients using the application have the exact same access/security to delete companies. But only one client is able to delete company's. We are on release 2020.1. Can not figure out why. Clients are using Windows 10 computers and the engineers have…

I need to know the steps in changing the general ledger expense account number on an existing asset.

Hey, I'm having an issue with our FAS server. I had to manually download the patch update, 2020.1.1 Service Update, from the website since our firewall is flagging the update from the Sage Advisor Update as a virus. Anyways, I have the patch installed…

I think it would be nice to be able to export, update, and re-import asset templates. We have a lot of asset template set up to simplify adding assets.Since it requires a date / year to be entered it would be nice to update them on an annual basis. I…

I am trying to run tax expense report with asset additions in a certain time frame but the report defaults to on month only. Does anyone know how I can change the placed in service dates in a report so it can give me asset additions for second quarter…

Is it possible to add Salvage Value to the Asset list grid as a column? Most other fields area already available. This would be very useful to be exported.

Recently the company upgraded our Sage Fixed Assets to 2020.1. Since the upgrade, I am unable to get into the fixed asset system most of the time. Very rarely it will just out of the blue work but only for a short time. Most of the time i receive this…

Is WinFas and WinFasGuest still needed as users on the databases

How do I find KB ID 49911

Looking for some advice on the best way to accomplish 2 tasks. One task is needing to update Sage FAS Network 2018.0 to get to the current 2020.1 version. The second task is migrating Sage FAS Network to a new Windows 2019 server. Does anybody have…

I need to create a schedule that shows the cost and A/D of assets by class (5 year etc.) from 2017 through the end of time when they'd be fully depreciated. I tried using the annual projection for the future years (2020 onwards), but the total depreciation…

When i tried to transfer an asset there is a dropdown that allows for choosing any cost center (all division cost centers are listed) however i cannot change the division. Do i have to dispose of the asset in one division and acquire it in the other division…

Hello, I am a system admin and just inherited our sage fixed asset program. My question is when do the updates become available for year end?

After we upgraded the client to Windows 10, every time try to run the Depreciation function the client just crashes with no error message. I've opened a support case but figured I'd also ask here.

Hello, Everytime I have transfers within the company it always results in an error with the current YTD depreciation and overstates the monthly depreciation. I then back it up a month and re depreciate but then this gets rid of all of my prior throughs…

We have capitalized work performed on a assist. Can it be combined with the original asset that is already depreciating

I have a user trying to dispose of an asset in beginning November without Sage taking depreciation for November. Is there a way to do this? We also use the period close feature so retiring at the end of October is not an option. I'm assuming Sage is taking…

We've skipped a database conversion during multiple upgrades (2017 to 2021), and now the database shows as "incompatible" and cannot be converted. The recommended solution is to get Professional Services involved. I'm wondering if I could start over with…

A little behind here but my company just updated our Sage to 2019. I can now change the row heights in the asset listing, but my asset detail lines are cutting off my data and I'm not finding a way to adjust those lines.