Sage 100

Anyone have a JobOps customer using Sage Mobile Sales? I have a customer asking about it and neither Sage nor JobOps can answer if they are compatible... @PaulZiliak does your mobile solution work with JobOps?

Not a good sign.

A similar situation with Sage Inventory Advisor working with JO. But @MoiraGoggin is working with the SIA team on it.... @PhilMcIntosh , perhaps this could be your good deed for mankind...

I already went through it for SIA with JobOps, and way back when eBusiness and Jobops. If it's something I make at most pennies on the publishers are going to have to do the QC or I tell the customer up front that no one has ever tested the configuration so it likely will have issues.

I'm with @PhilMcIntosh on this - there's no/little margin - so who pays for the demo, sales time, pre-qualification and any follow-on support for issues Sage cannot fix or for missing functionality. In order for anything to sell like this it has to be super cookie cutter.

Good deeds to mankind do not usually result in the gesture will be repaid in monetary units. So I am also in the ""product is too new to give you a definitive answer, here is a contact at Sage camp

I would insist sage offer a trial copy and you get the client to pay you to test

Mark is correct. But it takes a different mindset in approaching the customer. If you let them keep the idea, ""this is a product enhancement,"" then you're stuck. If you insist that they have a business process-functionality issue, then you charge to fix that problem -- which might or might not include software. Kless talks about the ""FORD consulting model"" (http://bit.ly/1jK2oFP), then you can charge for a modest project to define the problem and produce options (F and O). work the demo into that project if need be. I have done this more than a few times, and if you take the effort to get the customer to think about the challenge from 20k foot level, you get everybody into a better place. But it is easier than getting them to agree to, ""The fee for the demo is $xxx"")

@JerryNorman - in order to start that process you have to know that you will likely have a solution to offer at the end of it. If JobOps blocks all the solutions...

Phil - iSales 100 does work with Job Ops version 4.4 and higher (and we have at least one live company doing so). I'd be happy to find out if we have a fit for your client.