Enhancements Make Sage MAS 500 ERP, V. 7.30, More Efficient
By Alec Smith

Sage MAS 500 Version 7.3 builds on its foundation by setting new standards for quality and reliability. The latest version introduces numerous usability enhancements that improve productivity and ease of use, and technology updates that deliver support for the latest operating systems, database platforms, and virtualization. Significantly improved performance and scalability let you accomplish more with fewer resources, saving you time and money.

New to MAS 500 - Credit Card Processing
Process payments quickly and easily with the new Sage MAS 500 Credit Card Processing module. The module allows you to initiate and manage credit card transactions from within the Sales Order, Accounts Receivable and Cash Management modules. New features deliver advanced security and ease of use to support your payment processing needs.

The Credit Card Processing module’s flexibility is accompanied by its powerful security options, which provide the peace of mind you need. Powerful encryption protects confidential credit card information, while address verification and card security code verification help protect you from fraudulent transactions.

Users can set up multiple credit card accounts for each customer. The Credit Card Processing module supports a variety of credit card types and processors, including Sage Payment Solutions.

Credit Card Processing features benefit many areas of your company, including:

  • Sales: Down payments, multiple authorizations per order and multiple credit cards per order.
  • Shipping: Capture funds during shipping, reauthorize partial shipments and flexible error handling.
  • Accounts Receivable: Cash receipts, invoice payments and refunds.
  • Customer Care: Store transaction history and card information for future visits.

Enhancements in MAS 500 7.30

  • Improve user productivity with the updated, customizable Sage MAS 500 Desktop.
  • Run the latest technology and virtualization platforms.
  • Make the inventory count process faster, more efficiently and more accurately.
  • New Business Insights Explorer (BIE) views are now available to view pending and posted inventory transactions, including Pending Increase or Decrease Transactions, Pending or Posted Physical Counts, and previews of Pending Lots or Serial Numbers.
  • Streamline sales order processing and workflow.
  • Make payments electronically (ACH) and avoid check fraud.
  • Work faster with significant performance improvements in data entry, processing, posting and reporting.
  • Access the My Tasks Explorer Bar more easily. This navigation tool now appears on the right side of the Desktop by default and can be personalized by simply dragging tasks to the menu.
  • Customize the content for each task group according to your business needs. Display Web pages, company policies, links to documents or Web sites, or workflow diagrams with links to launch Sage MAS 500 tasks.

Sales Order

  • Enhancements were made to improve shipment commit workflow. The shipment commit process has been enhanced to enable printing a pro-forma invoice before committing a shipment, so a printed invoice can be included in a shipment or quickly printed for counter sales and handed to a customer.
  • In Sales Order Entry, updates to Ship To, Ship Via and Delivery Method fields in the order header optionally cascade down to all open sales order line items, saving you time by eliminating the need to update line items individually.

Accounts Payable

  • Electronic Payments through Automated Clearing House (ACH) increases flexibility in your payment methods with the ACH feature, which lets you use electronic funds transfer (EFT) as an alternative to checks. The ACH feature supports both U.S. (NACHA) and Canadian (AFT) formats.
  • The New Positive Pay feature for increased security provides a valuable tool in preventing check fraud by generating a file that is submitted to your financial institution to verify check information prior to payment. The bank processes the check only if check data matches the vendor’s information.
  • New vendor merge option feature lets you eliminate duplicate vendor records by merging information from a “source” vendor into another “target” vendor, including all aging and history records.

Accounts Receivable

  • The new customer merge option eliminates duplicate customer records by merging a “source” customer into another “target” customer, including all aging and history records.
  • The new invoice merge option allows multiple shipments to be merged into a single invoice for easier billing and reduced paperwork.
  • Additional credit card refund options allows processing credit card payment refunds conveniently through the Process Cash Receipts and Process Invoices tasks

For more information on these enhancements and other MAS 500 solutions, visit www.swktech.com.

Alec Smith is director of Project Management Services for SWK Technologies, Inc. Contact him at 631.271.6402 or alec.smith@swktech.com.