View our Sage 300 Business Intelligence software solution lunch and learn recording highlighting Solver's BI360 solution. BI360 provides a complete Excel and web-based suite, comprised of Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboard and preconfigured Data Warehouse solutions that integrates to all of your data sources for complete insight! Because BI360 comes with out-of-the-box integration to Sage 300, it only takes a fraction of the time to implement compared to other Business Intelligence solutions. When you view the recording you will discover how to: • Easily design reports with the modern BI360 Excel interface • Empower decision … [Read more...]
Cracking the code on NAICS: What You Need to Know for Sales Tax Registration
The first step in sales and use tax compliance is registering to collect and remit tax in the state or states in which your business has a significant presence or connection (nexus). You start to fill out the necessary forms and come upon a head scratcher: the NAICS code that best represents your primary business activity. If you’ve never heard of a NAICS code before filling out a sales tax registration form, you’re not alone. The six-digit codes are a system of classification. Remember the Dewey Decimal system at your local public library? NAICS codes are similar, except that instead of classifying books by topic, NAICS classifies … [Read more...]
2016 Sales Tax Changes: What to Expect in the New Year
Like every New Year, 2016 will bring many sales tax changes. Rates will decrease or increase, there’ll be new product taxability rules, exemptions will expire or take effect, and there will be reporting changes. The only thing certain when it comes to sales tax is that change happens. And if often happens without much warning. The coming of a New Year is a time to reflect on the past — what went well and what you wish you’d done differently. It’s a time for resolutions. This new year, have no regrets when it comes to sales tax. Resolve to streamline your sales tax compliance. You’ll find that it’s easier than losing weight. Resolution: … [Read more...]
Is Sage 300 C (running Sage 300 in a browser) the future of Sage 300? Here’s what Don Thomson, true Grandfather of the Accpac world says.
We recently came across a video message by Don Thompson, one of the creators of Sage 300 about his views on Sage 300 C. He starts by taking a look at the roots of Sage 300, to help give us a perspective on the present and the future of Sage 300 and the mobility revolution. Is Sage 300 C the future of Sage 300? History of Don Thomson and Accpac 1977 - Let’s go back to the creation of the personal computer. Don Thompson starts by telling us about his attendance at the First West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco, where the first home computers like Apple II were introduced (the event was attended by the likes of people like Steve … [Read more...]
Let’s talk turkey and sales tax
Turkey and taxes. The U.S. has a long history of both. And in 2010, the two converged in Virginia as part of an annual Thanksgiving tradition where tribal and state leaders pay homage to a more than 330-year-old treaty: then-governor Bob McDonnell was presented with a turkey (and two deer) by tribal chiefs in lieu of taxes. Unfortunately, paying taxes in trade doesn’t work for most of us. Depending on where and how you celebrate this year, your Thanksgiving feast could be served up with a side of sales tax. Home cooking. Stop by your local supermarket for your traditional Thanksgiving dinner fixings – turkey, potatoes, cranberries, … [Read more...]
Pumpkins, piercings and the paranormal: 10 scary ways states apply sales tax
Bwaahahaha! Is that the ghostly laugh of a Halloween haunt — or the auditor reviewing your sales tax returns? Dealing with sales tax can be a ghoulish task. And for businesses with compliance obligations in multiple states, it can be frighteningly difficult to know which rules apply. Take pumpkins, for example. Nothing says fall quite like overflowing cornucopias, evil-grinned jack-o’-lanterns and (yep) pie. But be warned: not all pumpkins are created equal. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania, taxability depends on if your pumpkin is tricked-out or treat-worthy. Pumpkins to be used for decoration (painted, varnished or carved) are taxed while … [Read more...]
Discover How to Rapidly Create, Deploy and Maintain Your Integration Projects
Take the ‘Complicated’ Out of Data Integration Would you like to use a code-free, cost-effective and highly configurable tool for your data-integration projects? Would you like to reduce the timeline of your data-integration projects from months to weeks or days? Are you working on a project that requires interaction (sharing data, import or export of data) between different applications like WMS, EDI, Web Imports and Sage 300? Are you concerned about how cost effective the project will be? Contact Front Line Systems to discover how you can use IMAN software to rapidly deploy your integration projects. Examples of a Few … [Read more...]
Attention! Sage Announces Mandatory Upgrade to Sage 300 Payroll Version 7.2 for all Sage 300 Payroll Customers By Dec 31, 2015.
Last week, Sage issued an announcement that all Sage 300 Payroll customers must upgrade to Sage 300 Payroll Version 7.2 by the end of 2015. Unofficially however, the upgrade must be done in time for W2’s to be submitted and for Q4 2015 reporting. At most companies that would be between January 15th and January 31st 2016. What Will You Get in Sage 300 Payroll Version 7.2? Recently, Sage has added many new services to Sage 300 – the biggest one being the Affordable Care Act. The ACA service looks at full time equivalencies and other calculations within the customer base to determine whether or not, you are required to provide Healthcare … [Read more...]
Services sales tax spreads through states
In most states, services are exempted from sales tax unless explicitly made taxable by law. So why are the governors of at least two states, as well as legislators in another, fighting to change that? Sales taxation used to focus exclusively on physical goods. As the United States moved toward a service economy, states started to realize that not taxing services meant giving up billions of dollars in potential revenue. Today, four states (Hawaii, New Mexico, South Dakota and West Virginia) tax almost all services. Five more states (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon) do not have a statewide sales tax (although local … [Read more...]
Stop Now! Discover Why Deleting Master Records in Sage 300 Leads to Bad Juju and Pressing Delete Now Will Cost You More Money Later.
First Things First…What is a Sage 300 Master Record? A master record is the primary record in each Sage 300 module – Vendors for Accounts Payable, Accounts for General Ledger, Customers for Accounts Receivables, Items for Inventory Control, plus anything that is found in the setup folder for the module. So, if you go to Sage 300 Inventory Control and Inventory Control Setup – anything the customer sets up is a master record – Categories, Account sets, Price lists, etc. (If it is something a user creates and it is not a transaction in Sage 300, then it is probably a master record.) Why Deleting Master Records in Sage 300 Is a Big No … [Read more...]
