Sage 100 What's New - Previous Versions
Sage supports the current and prior two versions of Sage 100. If you use the Payroll module, Sage supports the current and prior three versions of Sage 100. Below are links to the What's New documents for retired versions of Sage 100 and the Sage 100 Payroll module. Remember that the new features in the older versions carry forward to the more recent versions.
- The employee social security number prints masked on selected reports and on certain reports you can elect to print the last four digits of the social security number or exclude from the report. Only users with the appropriate security setup can view this sensitive information and access the option to print the full social security number.
- Employee direct deposit information, which includes bank account and routing numbers, will now print masked on selected reports.
- A Tax Table Rate Inquiry button has been added in the Tax Rates and Limits window accessed from Tax Profile Maintenance.
- The default number of years to retain payroll history is now nine years.
- A Next Lot Number button has been added in Lot/Serial Number Distribution.
- The 1099 DBA Name field prints on the 1099 Form. New options have been added to support Form 1099 printing.
- The Production Start Date field 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.
- A new calculation method using a percentage of disposable wages has been added in Deduction Code Maintenance to help calculate certain garnishments.
- The ability to reset the deduction balance at year end is available for all deduction types.
- The year-to-date earnings hours has been added to the payroll check printing work table.
- You can integrate the Payroll module with the Accounts Payable module and set up your deductions and payroll taxes so invoices are created when the Payroll Check Register is updated.
- Federal unemployment tax is broken out into its own section on the Payroll Tax Liability Report.
- A new checkbox, Allow employees with other pay cycles for bonus and commissions, has been added to the Pay Cycle window.
- 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.
- When running the Payroll Tax Calculation, the Resident wages, Non-resident wages, Resident tax amount and Non-resident tax amounts are totaled separately.
- A Gender Identity field has been added to the Additional tab in Employee Maintenance.
- There are two new reports - Tax Liability Report and Tax History Report on the Reports Menu. Make sure to update the role permissions so that these reports are available.
- There is a Rates and Limits... button in Tax Profile Maintenance which displays information about federal, state and local taxes.
- The check number field has been expanded to 10 characters; the direct deposit stub number field has been expanded to hold 9 characters.
- OAuth, Open Authorization, has been added as an email authentication method in Company Maintenance on the Email tab.
- New options have been added to support Form 1099 printing.
- A Payments tab has been added to Accounts Receivable Invoice History Inquiry showing all payments applied to the selected invoice.
- A Reverse Check Run utility has been added to reverse an entire check run after the register has been updated.
- For those using Paya Connect Desktop, there is an eInvoicing feature that allows customers to make online payments.
- The customer name, customer contact name, vendor contact name, confirm to name and requested by name fields have been expanded to 50 characters.
- For customers, vendors and employees the address lines are expanded to 40 characters, the city is expanded to 30 characters and the country is expanded to 50 characters.
- International addresses can be entered for customers, vendors and contacts.
- Expiration dates can be added for items with lot or serial numbers when the items are received into inventory or produced through Bill of Materials.
- There is a new Quarterly Unemployment Report which includes gross wages, total wages subject to employer's unemployment tax, capped wages subject to employer's unemployment tax and weeks worked.
- You can now enter international addresses in Employee Maintenance and ACA Employer Maintenance.
- You can now view a recap of hours entered for the day and week in Time Track Entry and Punch In/Out.
- The Payroll Data Conversion Wizard has been updated to help ensure that the correct tax profiles are assigned to employees.
- The Payroll Tax Update utility has been enhanced to provide more options and information.
- Changes have been made on the Taxes tab in Employee Maintenance to accommodate the revised form W-4.
- New filing statuses are available for the state of Arkansas.<
- Several changes have been made to the Physical Count functions in Inventory Management.
- Paperless Office features have been updated to include a new message editor, increase the size of the message field and you can now specify if an email address is added to the To, CC or BCC fields when an email is sent.
- An Expense Distribution Table field is available in Vendor Maintenance so you can enter a default distribution table.
- A security event has been added in Role Maintenance that allows you to automatically update the Daily Transaction Register.
- An in-line spell checker has been added which underlines misspelled words and you can right-click them to open a menu to select a replacement, add the word to your personal directory or ignore all instances of the misspelled word.
- A status field has been added to Warehouse Code Maintenance with active, inactive and restricted statuses.
- Payroll has been completely re-written is a separate module; the Timecard module which is now call Time Track and is new and is included in the Payroll module
- You can reprint sales orders and quotes from the Sales Order and Quote History Inquiry window.
- Multiple sales orders can be included on the same invoice and multiple sales orders can be consolidated into one shipment in shipping data entry.
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.
