Discover What's New in Recent Versions of Sage 100!
Sage supports the current and prior two versions of Sage 100. While your Conner Ash partner supports versions older than Sage does, we want you to know what you might be missing out on by not upgrading. You will also notice that many of the updates were suggestions that received multiple votes on the Sage 100 Ideas Site. So, if you have a great idea for a new Sage 100 feature or to see what others are suggesting and vote for the ones you like, check out the ideas site.
Below are links to the What's New documents for the last several versions of Sage 100 along with some of the new features. Remember that the new features in the older versions carry forward to the more recent versions. The features added in older versions of Sage 100 and the Payroll Module can be found here.
- You can suppress the extended item description in data entry tasks.
- Improvements have been added to the delete and change utilities in Accounts Payable - Vendors, Accounts Receivable - Customers and Inventory Management - Items.
- Data tracked and printed on the audit trail has been expanded for vendors, customers, employees and items. For employees, Payroll 2.24.1 must be installed.
- A date established field has been added to the Statistics tab in Vendor Maintenance.
- A W-9 form on file checkbox has been added to the Additional tab in Vendor Maintenance and you can now retain the EIN/SSN for vendors with a vendor type = 'none'.
- Two new tasks, Delete Warehouses and Change Warehouses, have been added to the Inventory Management Utilities menu.
- New features have been added to Paperless Office.
- There is a new security feature and a checkbox so that you can quick close a partially received purchase order.
- A Received order status is now available for purchase orders that have been received but not invoiced.
- There is a new option to print forms for generated back orders and display ordered quantity in red have been added to the Sales Order module.
- Improvements have been made to Inventory Requirements Planning to correctly link components back to parent items, particularly when the same subassembly appears on a bill of material multiple times.
- Changes in the Production Management module include an option to summarize material lines in Work Ticket Entry and the ability the edit star and end times in Labor Entry.
- The Recent Tab has been added to the ribbon.
- A Select Serial Numbers by Range button has been added in Lot/Serial Number Distribution.
- SAP Crystal Reports has been updated to version 2020.
- An Include check box has been added in the Select Invoices for Payment window enabling you to quickly select each invoice for payment.
- A Display Quantities for Inactive Warehouses check box has been added on the Additional tab in Inventory Management Options to allow you to hide inactive warehouses.
- Several improvements have been added in Inventory Requirements Planning and in Production Management.
- A Next Lot Number button has been added in Lot/Serial Number Distribution.
- The 1099 DBA Name filed prints on the 1099 Form. New options have been added to support Form 1099 printing.
- The Production Start Date filed has been added in Work Ticket Entry Copy to simplify the process of copying a work ticket.
- If you are using the new Production Management module, check out the Inventory Requirements Planning module that is now available.
- You can add tasks to the new Public Favorites group.
- You can exclude inactive items from the Lookup in Item Maintenance.
- Several features that were originally available in the subscription plan are now available in both subscription and perpetual versions.
- There are DBA (doing business as) name and address fields in Vendor Maintenance on the Additional tab.
- A Company Type field has been added in Company Maintenance to designate a company as live, demo, archive or test.
- The check number field is expanded to 10 characters in Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation, General Ledger, Payroll (version 2.21 or later) and Purchase Order.
- There is a Nonemployee Compensation form type in Form 1099 Tax Reporting.
- When you save a new form code in A/R Invoice Printing, all of the setting are saved.
- There is a new report, Purchases Clearing from History, that you can run after period end processing to get the information needed to reconcile the purchases clearing account at any time.
If you would like to discuss an upgrade, please contact Sue Deters or Suzanne Watson at (314) 205-2510. If you have third-party enhancement(s), we can assist you with determining if the enhancement(s) are compatible with the most recent version of Sage 100. We can also coordinate with the vendor to make sure the updates are scheduled so you have no unexpected downtime.
