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.

• What's New in 2025

• You can expand the invoice number length from 7 to 20 characters in Accounts Receivable, Sales Order and Job Cost modules.
• You can enable audit tracking in Sales Order and Purchase Order.
• A Switch View button has been added to the Select Invoices for Payment window so you can toggle between the grid view and the list view. In the list view you use CTRL + SHIFT to select invoices.
• The last invoice date and last invoice amount fields have been added on the Statistics tab in Customer Maintenance and Inquiry.
• You can print the extended item description for miscellaneous items and charges in Invoice Printing and Invoice History Printing.
• The columns entered in the sort columns window will not persist by user.
• A total amount cleared field has been added on the Checks tab and the Dep/Adjust tab in Reconcile Bank.
• Several new views have been added to Business Insights.
• When using the journal reversal button in account maintenance to reverse a journal entry, the posting date will be the original posting date if that period is open. If it is closed the posting date will be the current accounting date.
• You can add the Universal Product Code or European Article Number to an item on the Additional tab in Item Maintenance.
• You can sort by product line on the physical count worksheet, the physical count variance register and the count card variance register. You can also print the extended item description on the physical count worksheet.
• There is an option to print inventory items where the quantity on hand ending balance and the dollar amount ending balance are zero on the Trial Balance report.
• In Paperless Office, a new quote document has been added for the Purchase Order Request for Quote feature.
• The Positive Pay export log document has been added in Paperless Office tasks.
• The customer and vendor form codes are saved in the pdf log in Paperless Office.
• The Export to Excel button has been added to all Paperless Office Viewer tasks.
• Standard cost rate per piece labor improvements have been made in Production Management.
• Work ticket template maintenance improvements have been made in Production Management.
• A new Production Management option has been added to Relieve WIP on Last Completion.
• A new Purchase Order option has been added to require a cancellation code when deleting purchase orders or quotes.
• If Production Management is integrated with Purchase Order and a purchase order is costed to a work ticket, you can reverse the work ticket cost and quantities from the work ticket files during return of goods.
• In Purchase Order Entry, you can enter a quote and email a request for quote to one or multiple vendors using Paperless Office.
• Several new features have been added to Purchase Order module for quotes.
• You have the option to not create a back order if an item on a purchase order is returned.
• The customer telephone number has been added in Sales Order Entry, Sales Order Invoice Data Entry, Sales Order and Quote History Inquiry and A/R Invoice History Inquiry for sales order invoices.
• A new Sales Order option has been added to require a cancellation code when deleting sales orders or quotes.
• You can print the extended item description for regular items, miscellaneous items, charges and special items in several tasks in Sales Order.
• You can enter a descriptive name for temporary fields in the Visual Integrator module.

• What's New in 2024

• 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'.
• Three new fields have been added to the Additional tab in Vendor Maintenance to support the 1099 Form changes for individuals - First Name, Middle Name and Last Name.
• 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.
• When creating a sales order credit memo and recalling the invoice from history, you can select to apply either the general ledger sales account from history or the sales return account.
• New features have been added to Inventory Requirements Planning.
• New features have been added to Production Management.

• What's New in 2023

• Improvements have been made to Inventory Requirements Planning including to correctly link components back to parent items, particularly when the same subassembly appears on a bill of material multiple times.
• Improvements have been made to the Production Management module including 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.
• Three new fields have been added to the Additional tab in Vendor Maintenance to support the 1099 Form changes for individuals - First Name, Middle Name and Last Name.
• 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.
• When creating a sales order credit memo and recalling the invoice from history, you can select to apply either the general ledger sales account from history or the sales return account.

• What's New in 2022

• 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.

• What's New in 2021

• 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.