Sage 50 Memorized Transactions

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Save time and simplify month-end with Sage 50 memorized transactions. It's great for recurring payments or customer invoices. Sage 50 lets you memorize just about any kind of transaction and assign a schedule. It saves the details so you can select it from a list and modify anything that needs to be changed. Sage remembers...

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Import Data With Your Camera

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Have you ever been given a handout in a meeting or a seminar and had to retype the information? Did you know that you can import data with your camera? The Excel mobile app lets you scan a document and turn it into a spreadsheet. Any data in tabular format can be scanned and imported...

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Accelerate Invoicing

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With Sage 300 you can simplify the task of creating and sending invoices to your customers. Accelerate invoicing with the recurring charge feature in Sage 300. It allows you to create a recurring charge for your customers and specify billing frequency. You can have as many schedules as you need. It takes the tedium out...

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Simplify A/P Entry

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You may not know that Sage allows you to enter a supplier invoice with taxes included. It will automatically calculate the included taxes and record them. This especially true if some taxes are refundable and other are not. I prefer this method to entering several detail lines or making notes on the invoice before I...

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Overhauled the Website

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I have not posted in a month because I have been updating the site content. The content needed a refresh to better showcase our services and the products we sell. It has been a while since we've overhauled the website. Instead of many seemingly unrelated pages we have organized them into two categories for now,...

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Low Code Apps

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Make Your Own App Power Apps lets you create an app without learning coding or syntax. The concept is called low code or no code. Microsoft's contribution is dubbed Power Apps. I have been waiting for this moment. Anyone with Microsoft 365 can make a simple app. After watching several presentations on Power Apps at...

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Easily Automate Everyday Tasks

I recently took Microsoft Power Automate for a test drive. The introductory group video I watched was full of useful ways to automate everyday tasks. It's simple to create a mobile notification when you receive an important message because you can select from hundreds of scenarios and set it up in a few clicks. If...

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Simplify: Bill Payments

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It's far less work to pay for things electronically than writing and mailing a cheque. But, you still have to enter the data into your accounting software. The solution is to use a payment service. QuickBooks and Sage give you the choice of electronic payments. All you have to do is enter a bill into...

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Maintaining Focus

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Let’s face it, it’s difficult to stay focused working from home. Zoom meetings can be very tiring. I find it helps to take time from intense tasks. Try not to schedule meetings back to back. Take time to do something different. If it involves leaving your desk for a few minutes, even better.

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Not Just A Spreadsheet

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