If you are trying to clear ‘old’ purchase orders, using the Purchases Clearing report (Purchase Order | Period End | Purchases Clearing Report) to identify open amounts on purchase orders might be helpful. The report includes the quantity ordered, received, and invoiced. If these three quantities do not match, the purchase order remains in a Backorder Status until […]
A purchase order with a status of Backorder could mean that goods are outstanding or that the invoice is outstanding. If you still need to change the Quantity Backordered column to zero and Sage won’t allow you to, try the following workaround: Change the quantity ordered column back to the correct value and that should prompt the system […]
How do you clear sales orders that have a backorder status backorder? Even after changing the quantity ordered to be equal to quantity shipped and zeroing out the quantity backordered, the status remains Backorder. The trick is to create a $0 invoice for that sales order. This process will clear the backorder status from the sales […]
Auto Generate Invoices Feature Did you know that Sage has an auto generate invoices function? This works well if you have many sales orders to invoice. Here are the steps to process invoices using the auto generate feature: In Sales Order | Main | Auto Generate Invoices Selection, create a batch (if you are using batch […]
Post a One Sided Journal Entry For those times when you need to post a one sided journal entry to correct an out of balance ledger, here are the steps: In General ledger | Main | General Journal Entry. Select a source journal and choose Next for the entry number. Enter the transaction date in the […]
This utility can be accessed from the File | Run menu within Sage. When the pop-up screen appear, type in the name of the utility. Note: you must have appropriate rights to run these utilities. GLWSKA – Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of cheque selection or printing cheques when the system suddenly stops responding. […]
Common Issue – Post Dated TransactionsWe have often seen this issue where users are posting future dated transactions but using the wrong posting date (eg. creating rent invoices/cheques for December but posting them in July). Using differentdates (invoice dates and posting dates) will affect Sage reporting. To avoid the confusion, ensure that an invoice created in a particular month, […]
Common Issue – Dates in Sage 100 Dates play an important role in accounting, where one date may be treated differently from other dates. To clear some confusion as to how the different dates in Sage 100 are used, here is a recap of the types of dates in Sage 100. There are three major types […]
An issue that comes up periodically with Sage 100, is that ‘Deferred’ printer is the only option when selecting a printer for any report in Sage 100. When you print a Sage report/form and you see Deferred printer as the only printer available, you need to authenticate to the network. Meaning . . . that […]
Tips To Improve Sage 100 Performance We are often asked about ways to speed up Sage 100. We’ve borrowed and lightly edited one of our peer’s articles. Although this is a bit dated, most of the content is still relevant. Below are some steps that you can take to improve the speed of Sage 100. […]