Version 2023 of Sage 50 has released. The first thing to know is, if either of these situation apply to you, you need to wait before upgrading. If you have custom reports written using Sage Intelligence Reporting, do not upgrade yet. Sage Intelligence Reporting is not included with, and does not work with Sage 50 […]
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Steve Collins
IQ Accounting Solutions
Setting up multiple ship-to addresses for customers in Sage 50 (formerly Peachtree) is simple once you understand how to ship-to addresses relate to contacts.
Have you ever wished you had more space between columns on a spreadsheet, or between the cell contents and the cell border? Some people resort to inserting narrow empty columns between columns of data. But that interferes with the use of timesavers like keyboard navigation shortcuts or Fill Right, and doesn’t help if you’re using […]
Sage 50 comes standard with an income statement that has 12 monthly columns. But recently I had a request for a 12 month balance sheet. When building this report I realized what a great example it is of how Sage 50’s financial statement designer is powerful, flexible, and easy to use. At first this report […]
You have probably all seen Excel formulas that result in an error such as #DIV/0!, #N/A, #NAME?, #NULL!, #NUM!, #REF!, or #VALUE!. Usually they indicate that you need to correct something in your formula or the data it references. But sometimes the condition that produces the error is unavoidable. In those cases not only does […]
Sage 50 2022 New Features
Jul 21
Version 2022 of Sage 50/Sage 50cloud releases July 21, 2021. It should show up in your updates soon as they gradually roll it out to users. The list of improvements is short, but they will be significant to some users. State Paid Family and Medical Leave enhancementsNew payroll functionality has been added to accommodate the […]
One of Sage 50’s built in financial statement formats, “<Standard> Income – 12 Period”, gives you an income statement for the current fiscal year split out into monthly columns. People are often surprised to find that it doesn’t let you choose a date range so you can’t use it to report on prior years. But […]
When typing in the description field of a Peachtree invoice, the enter key moves you to the next field. Read this tip to find out how to start a new line of text within the same description field.
Do you require down payments or prepayments from your customers? I’m often asked how to record prepayments since there is no invoice that the payment can be applied against. Today I’m going to go over two ways to a deal with this and some of the pros and cons of each method. OPTION 1: Use […]
I’ve had several calls recently from people trying to do payroll, but for some employees there are no pay fields showing in Payroll Entry. As a result there’s nowhere to enter the employee’s pay. The solution is simple, but far from obvious so I thought it would be a good topic to cover here. In […]
