Out of the box, the standard behavior for the Receive Money window is Sage 50 is to remember the last account that was use in the Cash Account field. Sometimes that is fine, but other times it causes problems. For example, a common way to write off bad debt is to receive a dummy payment […]
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Steve Collins
IQ Accounting Solutions
Sage 50 2021 New Features
Jul 22
Sage 50 2021 released on July 15th 2020. The new release provides a few new features that improve ease of use. It also steps up security for those who integrate Sage 50 with Gmail. And the new feature that I haven’t had a chance to test yet but has the potential to be a huge […]
Easily assign different prices to different groups of customers using price levels.
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS
May 27
Sage 50’s quantity discount feature makes it easy to give price breaks based on the number of units sold.
When you copy and paste cells on a spreadsheet, do you get tired of having to resize the columns where you pasted the cells? There are two good ways to copy the column widths along with your data. Copying entire columns is the fastest and easiest way to copy contents and formatting at the same […]
By now I’m sure most of you have heard about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Several people who received money under the program have asked about the best way to account for the money in Sage 50, so I thought it would a good topic to address here. Most lenders are having PPP recipients setting […]
You probably know that you can use the Sum function to add up a range of cells. But did you know that you can specify a range that covers multiple tabs (worksheets) in your Excel workbook? EXAMPLE Let’s say you have a workbook that lists the month’s sales of each of your products. There is […]
Sage 50 2020.2 New Features
Mar 18
The second update to Sage 50 version 2020 is scheduled to be released today. You should see a message in Sage 50 notifying you of the update within the next few weeks. These aren’t ground breaking new features but they (particularly the first two on the list) will be appreciated by most users Cash Account […]
Do you ever see the word “Duplicate” printed in the signature area of your checks or below the invoice number and date on your invoices even when you are printing them for the first time? Read this tip for two ways to solve this problem.
You can use number formats, such as the comma style or currency style, or the increase/decrease decimals buttons to control how many decimals Excel displays. These are convenient and can be very useful, but they can also lead to some embarrassing problems in how your numbers display. For example if you have 1.254 in cell […]
