Much like a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system provides features beyond the sales tracking and customer services capabilities of MAS 90 and MAS 200, a Credit and Collections Management (CCM) system helps control the Accounts Receivable cycle.
You can begin to craft your CCM by reviewing 17 Fundamental of Effective Credit & Collections Management.
On Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 10:00 am, we will dive deeper into the requirements of a CCM system during the Sage MAS 90/200 Online User Group meeting. We will consider activity tracking, automation, documentation, work flow, and Business Intelligence. If you are interested in attending, leave a comment below and we will be certain to get your invitation to you.
Don’t forget that every User Group meeting concludes with the Open Forum where everyone has the opportunity to ask their MAS 90/200-related questions for feedback from other users and consultants.
Over the course of the last several releases, Sage has shipped a load of system enhancements. One might think there are too many to document, but Sage has taken care of that with the MAS 90 and 200 Chronicle of Releases. Sage’s development decisions are based on a number of
factors, most important of which is user feedback. With the VersionOne-powered Sage MAS 90 and 200 and Extended Enterprise Suite Ideas, we can all study, suggest,collaborate, and vote on ideas for future development. The site is organized by categories (Financial Management, Manufacturing, Sales & Distribution, Reports/BI, CRM, Integration, and General Enhancements), is completely searchable, and can be sorted by the latest suggestions, hot suggestions, top voted, planned for release, and completed.
You can create an account or browse anonymously, but participating is the best way to get your idea implemented and your request fulfilled. Of course you want your idea to get some votes, so leave a comment below and let us know why we should vote.
To some businesses, it might seem negligible but to others it is vital. The Bank Code field in MAS 90 and 200 is limited to a single character which means any single organization can have up to 36 bank accounts (26 alpha plus 10 numeric characters). With the number of locations that Bank Code file writes to in a MAS 90 or 200 installation, extending the field to two or more characters is a daunting task.
Wisely, our friends as DSD Business Systems in San Diego, have programmed a system enhancement allowing lower-case characters in the Bank Code field. Now 62 bank accounts are available (26 lower-case alpha, 26 upper-case alpha, plus 10 numeric characters).
With the release of version 4.40 and subsequent Product Updates, Sage rolled several Extended Solutions (add-on system enhancements) into MAS 90 and 200 and discontinued the balance of the Extended Solutions catalog. The source code for those Extended Solutions that were not planned for inclusion as standard features was distributed to a number of third-party partners certified by Sage to program for MAS 90 and 200.
In the several months since the release of the source code, several of the Extended Solutions have been updated and are being made available for the 4.40 release including some of the most popular like GL-1061 Bank Reconciliation Integration with General Journal. The result is that some organizations with a variety of Sage Extended Solutions were had to wait for these titles to be programmed and released. While the entire catalog isn’t immediately available, the wait for many may already be over and the wait for others should be over soon.
It’s a questions I hear all of the time: “What has changes since the version we are running?” If we’re talking about the latest release, the answer can be straight-forward. However, the answer to that question can be complicated in some cases (if an upgrade hasn’t been installed over the last several releases) and just plain impossible to remember other times (it might not seem like a long time ago, but 3.71 was released over five years ago). To give a complete answer, I usually have to share Sage’s release notes or pre-release guides which are usually 20 to 30 pages each.
Recently, Sage launched a Chronicle of Enhancement Releases outlining the “wide array of enhancements through previous releases” all the way back to version 3.50 which was issued nine years ago. Curiously, the lastest release, 4.30 isn’t included but if you send me an email, I will share the 26-page pre-release guide.