MAS 90 / 200 Update 5

Take A Dive Into Product Update 5

Sage has announced the availability of Product Update 5 for Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200 Version 4.4 and it’s available via compact download from Sage Online. Product Update 5 continues the trend of incorporating many of the old “Extended Solutions” into the core product which means you get a bunch of great new features without additional cost. Here’s what you get with Product Update 5.

Company-Specific Background Colors
For years, this has been a very popular request among Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200 customers running multiple companies. Finally, you can chose to assign a unique background color for each of the different companies. This will make it tremendously easier to ensure entries are made in the correct company … particularly when you have several company screens open at the same time.

Multi-Company Aged Invoice Report
Now you can print your Accounts Payable Aged Invoice report in a multi-company format, combining vendor information across all of the companies you select.

Expense Distribution Tables
This new feature in Accounts Payable allows you to pre-define your GL account distribution and their percentages, removing the extra steps of manually keying amounts separately each time an invoice is entered. For example, monthly rent payments can be set up in an Expense Distribution table to automatically allocate percentages to various departments and GL codes.

Inactive Inventory Items
You can now designate inventory items as “inactive” so that it can no longer be purchased or sold. Inactive items will still retain their history and allow returns processing using RMA or a credit memo in sales order. This can be useful for holiday or seasonal items that are available only during certain periods of time. In previous versions of Sage MAS 90 and 200, an inactive inventory item issued only a warning that was easily overridden.

New Security Options in Item Inquiry
Four new permission settings have been added to prevent order entry personnel from accessing standard cost information while still allowing access to price and quantity on-hand. You can also restrict access to certain vendor information.

941 Tax Form Update for 2011
In March of this year, the Federal Government issued an update to the 2011 Form 941 and these changes have been incorporated into Product Update 5. Included is a new data entry field for Tax Due on Unreported Tips as well as necessary calculation changes to certain form types.

Other notable enhancements include additional ‘Accounts Payable Check Sorting Options’ along with the addition of ‘Physical Inventory Count Cards.’ Be sure to contact us if you’d like assistance downloading and installing Product Update 5 for Sage MAS 90 and 200 Version 4.4.