September 14, 2010

I stumbled across this article by Greg  Hammermaster of Sage Payment Solutions today that listed some great payment processing tips for small businesses. Read the full article, or see below for a quick summary.

•     choose a technically savvy and financially stable payments provider
•     look to maximize sales channel opportunities
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September 8, 2010
 One of the largest glass processors in North America was poised to acquire its largest competitor. The acquisition was held back, however, because their information systems were not scalable. They needed to integrate systems between their 50+ locations scattered throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. As part of a successful effort to provide the integration, the company&r...

September 3, 2010

This is a great post written by Stephen Smith regarding how you can write server side code in Java to assist your UIs do their job more efficiently.  We are getting ramped up for the release of Sage Accpac ERP Version 6.0 here at CodePartners! Contact us if you have any questions regarding custom programs in the new version. We’re happy to help!

August 31, 2010

Deposit Connector is a great tool for any company who either uses their bank’s remote deposit capture program or uses lock box service at their bank to collect checks. Both of these are great services provided by banks, but users still have to manually key in the bank deposit transactions to their accounting system. Not anymore! Our newest tool, Deposit Connector, helps you ...

August 24, 2010

Here’s a link to a blog posted by Stephen Smith regarding how the Browser part of a UI control is coded in the new Accpac SWT framework. Most of the basic functionality is automatic from the XML screen definition, but UIs are more complex than just Create/Read/Update/Delete, and Stephen points our how you add that extra complexity to handle sophisticated UI needs.

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August 24, 2010

Database Dump and Load are extremely useful utilities that let you transfer Accpac companies between different organization IDs and even between different types of database servers. They provide an easy mechanism to send data to your Business Partner or Tech Support. They provide a mechanism to back up your data, if you need one.

One thing to watch out for when moving data betwee...

August 17, 2010

Sage ERP Accpac 6.0A is just entering beta. With this release you will be able start to run Web based User Interface forms. But as a developer, how do you create new Web Based forms using the Accpac SDK? The new Web based forms are written using a number of tools that are integrated into the Eclipse development environment (http://www.eclipse.org/). This SDK involves programming w...

July 30, 2010

On Sunday, March 21, 2010, the House of Representatives passed the fiercely contested healthcare reform bill, HR 3590. On Thursday, March 25 the Senate passed the Reconciliation Bill, the so-called “fix it” bill. On Tuesday, March 30, President Obama signed the final piece of the legislation into law. This legislation will have a major impact on every person living in th...

July 20, 2010
Navigation

•     j or n : next story
•     k or p : previous story

Application

•     / : search
•     ? : open help

I don’t know about you, but I can always use good shortcuts…here are a few helpful ones for Google News:
Actions

•     s : star story
•     . or ...

July 12, 2010

Here are a few shortcuts that allow you to use forms, notebooks, and records in Sage Accpac more efficiently:

HOME – Move to the first entry in the form
END – Move to the last entry in the form
↑ or ↓ – Move up or down a single row
ENTER or TAB – Move the cursor to the next field
SHIFT + TAB – Move the cursor to the previous field
INS –...