Why do businesses use QuickBooks? QuickBooks is usually the first choice for small start-ups because it’s the most affordable accounting option that can be used to manage the financial basics when starting a company or transitioning from a spreadsheet based systems. For those unfamiliar with this software, QuickBooks is a set of solutions offered by Intuit that provide the tools to manage payroll, inventory, and sales. QuickBooks systems are designed for small business, more specifically start-up businesses that would require no more than 30 employees. How can it be hurting your business? There’s no question about it, QuickBooks is a great accounting solution for startup businesses with smal

What is Sage Summit 2016? Sage Summit 2016 is the largest networking opportunity for small and medium businesses in the Sage 100 community. During this conference you can expect to learn, network, and engage with all aspects of the business world that can, in turn, help you run a successful business. Do I have to be affiliated with Sage products to participate? No, Sage Summit is open to every individual who wishes to improve and grow their business. Sage Summit has traditionally been attended by a diverse group of industries from all over the world with varying knowledge and understanding of the software. Attendees consist of business owners, executives, managers, IT personnel, merchants, H

What is Business Management Software? Business Management Software provides you with the ability to manage and implement all policies, practices, processes, procedures, and guidelines that are necessary and required for the successful running of your business. Since business management is so diverse, it has the ability to tailor to your specific business operations and allows you to customize and manage your business in a number of different ways. Ways in which an ERP system would be limited to, given it’s only a single tier of business management software. Why the transition from ERP to Business Management? Sage cares about the success of their customers. Their focus is on giving customers

Overwhelmed with Distribution? As a distributor, you are responsible for responding quickly and efficiently to all your customers’ needs to stay competitive and profitable in the market. Between completing orders, shipping on time, and fulfilling post purchase activities (i.e. warranties, customer service, etc.) there is little time to make educated decisions and changes, and as your business grows to adequately serve more customers, it can overwhelm your current business processes. You begin to accept more currencies, expand and adopt more distribution centers, and grow your manufacturer base to sell more products. With so much business growth and opportunity, it’s hard to keep track of it

Running a Manufacturing Business can be stressful… As a manufacturer, you must constantly stay up to date with tracking current customer demand, scheduling and placing orders, monitoring costs, complying with industry regulations and standards, and everything else in between. Managing this all with manual processes or unfit software can be quite stressful. Luckily for you, you’re taking the time to look for new innovations to improve your businesses efficiency and we believe we can help. Is technology all that important for your manufacturing business? According to a study published by IDG Research Services, 100% of manufacturing businesses that invested in technology to help them connect bu

Everyone who owns their own business ultimately wants to save time and reduce costs. What if we told you Sage 100 could help you do just that, while also saving the environment? Sage has added powerful paperless capabilities to its Sage 100 solution to help users go paperless. Don’t think having paper around is such a big deal? According to GreenAmerica.org, “the cost of actually using paper—taking electricity and ink into account—is actually 13 to 31 times the initial price of the paper itself”. That’s a lot of unnecessary money out of your pocket each year. Here are just a few reasons why you should choose Sage to help your business go paperless: Improve productivity and security by archi