Author Archives: greysagemas

Customer Statement with supporting documents

There was a very unique but interesting requirement from one of our clients recently, what they needed was along with the Customer Statement, they also wanted to have all the supporting documents printed sequentially after each customer’s statements so that they can attach them along statement for customer’s ready reference. (By supporting document we mean… Read More »

Mass Item Pricing Change

Recently we have done a customization that allows the user to change the price of Items at mass level. In this user has an option to increase or decrease the price based on Percentage as well as on fixed amount. For example, if the unit price of the item equals $100 and the price change… Read More »

Viewing the Profit Margin in the Sales Orders Screen

Currently in the ‘Enter Sales Order and Quotes’ task user can view the Gross Profit Amount and Percent for a single line item. Please refer the below screenshot. If a user wants to view the total Gross Profit for the entire Sales Order then user has to list and then total the profit amounts for… Read More »

Message Queuing Problem

During installation of MAS 500 Client on a Windows XP system, you are asked to make sure the following prerequisites are already installed in the system Refer below screenshot. Now, even though you may have installed the Message Queuing Services using Add/Remove Windows Components, the MAS 500 setup sometimes does not detect the same, particularly… Read More »

Drill-Down facility in the Invoice BI Explorer

In standard MAS 500 functionality, the Business Insights Explorer for Invoice displays the records of the Invoice transactions i.e. Invoice Header and the corresponding Invoice Detail records. Please refer the below screenshot. If user wants to view the invoices on the basis of Aging Category then first user has to open the Customer BI explorer… Read More »

Upgrading database from version 7.00 to version 7.20

Have you come across the below error while upgrading MAS 500 database from version 7.00 to version 7.2? ‘An error occurred reading Sage MAS 500 license information from the Registration Message. Please contact your Authorized Sage Partner or MAS 500 Support to resolve. ’ This error may occur even though you have entered valid registration… Read More »

Display entire year’s activity in Vendor Ledger

As per current MAS 500 functionality, in Vendor Status task the ledger tab displays ledger activity only for the current fiscal period. It also displays open/closed invoices and memos in the current fiscal period. Please refer the below screen shot. However, users may want to view the entire year’s activity in the Vendor Status window… Read More »