Welcome to the Sage 50 Canada Support Group on Community Hub! Available 24/7, the Forums are a great place to ask and answer product questions, as well as share tips and tricks with Sage peers, partners, and pros.
Sage 50 CA - Multi-user collaboration through remote data access – Sage Drive (is now called Remote Data Access ).
The new naming now properly represents the functionality of this feature. And allows you and your accountant, bookkeeper or co-workers…
General TIP on installs and data conversions:
Sage 50 CA requires full Windows access rights for update installations and data conversions. Even if Sage 50 CA is a cloud-connected software, it's still a classic desktop installation which is designed…
Are you a business with customers who may be residents of California? Changing regulations may impact you.
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect. The CCPA aims to protect the personal information of all California…
Here's some quick tips on how to customize your employee's hourly rate of pay when handling payroll using Sage 50 CA's payroll module.
STEP 1: Go to the Employees & Payroll module , then open up the individual employee's profile by going to the Employee…
Are you finishing off year end but will need to wait for your accountant to reconcile the year before you can begin entering transactions for the following year?
Year-end Tips and Tricks
If your accountant works with the Sage 50 CA Accountants version…
Getting started with Sage 50? We have some new videos, showing you how to navigate the software and how to create new: customers, vendors, accounts and employees! Created by Sage Colleagues, " Sage University” videos are quick snippets to help you get…
Microsoft had some buggy Windows updates recently(10 July) that prompted them to quickly release fixes for Windows (server and workstation) this past Monday (16 July).
These fixes are KB4345424 (for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2), KB4345420 (for Windows…
May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union. What does it have to do with emails, specifically, attachments?
"Sending files by email poses a threat of personal data leakage for a number of reasons…
This week's quick tip is for the user now comfortable with Sage 50.
If you no longer desire to see new user message alerts for checks and invoices, etc., no problem!
Some messages can be turned off by going to your Setup menu, then to User…
New to Sage 50? Or do you just need to re-create a database? Here are the top 3 tips to help get you started after you've installed and activated your software. For full details see KB 29934 .
Tip #1: Talk to your Accountant and Set Fiscal Start and…
Sage has partnered with Microsoft to integrate Office 365 into Sage 50c, a new toolkit for small business!
See our previous posts on why businesses are buying O365 EN / FR plus :
the 1st Key Benefit of O365: Reduced Risk! EN / FR
The 2nd Key Benefit…
Sage 50 wants full Administrator Rights to run processes and services in the background of the Windows Registry. Newer operating systems like Windows 11 crack down on this behaviour, especially when recent updates are released. When running as administration…
Anyone who has recently upgraded their operating system has probably noticed security changes. Something to consider is that Windows has specific operating system editions used for business or the home environment.
Data Collection and Windows Settings…
You try to link an account but you can not select it in the
account dropdown list. It’s not
there. You try typing in the account
number in the field and same result, it’s not there. You open the chart of accounts and you see
the account. It does exist…
Alec B.
Hello all, this week i'd like to discuss the error 'a required data file is missing' that a user may be presented with when opening a file or a backup in Simply Accounting.
The first thing to check is that the data file set is located in…