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  • 1.  How Many User Licenses Does User REALLY Have?

    Posted 09-13-2022 12:47
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    Riddle me this 90Minders.........

    Customer called last week.  They increased the accounting department head count.  Thus they need another Sage 100 user license.  The partner portal indicated that at the time, they had FOUR Sage users.  However, five DIFFERENT users were on the system with regularity.  Was the extra user the CRM user?  With the additional user, they NEED a total of six.

    I explain this to Sage customer support.  The customer needs six active users.......  Numerous times!!!

    Sage collects money for ONE user license and issues keys.  We install the keys.  Customer is ONLY able to access FIVE licenses.

    The attached PDF contains screen shots of what we see on the system now..

    From the partner portal - five users (used to be four)
    From *info in Sage - Six user
    From System Configuration, tab two - Number of Registered Licenses - 7, available - 0
    From Installed Module Listing - 7, Available 3

    Again, only FIVE users can access system.

    So the question is how many active users do they have?  A legitimate five?  Or six but there is an issue with the licensing.  And does the CRM license EVER count (if CRM is not installed)?

    TIA


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    Jeff Schwenk
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    (540) 221-4444
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  • 2.  RE: How Many User Licenses Does User REALLY Have?

    Posted 09-13-2022 12:50
    I believed one of the Sage developers mentioned at MotM a few years ago that they quietly patched the extra user, which was a bug.  Your customer must be on a version before that fix was done.

    For Advanced / Premium you need to restart the service for the extra user to become active... and re-copy activate.pvx to the workstation folder on Terminal Servers.

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
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  • 3.  RE: How Many User Licenses Does User REALLY Have?

    Posted 09-13-2022 12:54

    If they are Sage 100 advanced or premium then *info, the System Configuration Screen and the installed Module listing should all show 2 extra user licensed, one for the application service and one for CRM.

     

    *INFO seems to be what actually controls how many users can log in.  Since that shows 6 on yours, I would get all users out, stop the service or application. Then log in using MAS90 mode and go to the registration screen and click on the ACTIVATE button. Then check *info again. Sometimes I've had to do that a couple of times before *INFO shows correctly.

     

     

     

     

     

    David Overholt

    DWD Technology Group, Inc.

    9921 Dupont Circle Drive West, Suite 300 | Fort Wayne, IN 46825

    260.423.2414 main

    800.232.8913 toll free

    sagesupport@dwdtechgroup.com

    www.dwdtechgroup.com

     






  • 4.  RE: How Many User Licenses Does User REALLY Have?

    Posted 09-13-2022 12:58
    Link to Sage City thread on this subject.

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
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  • 5.  RE: How Many User Licenses Does User REALLY Have?

    Posted 09-13-2022 14:21
    Thanks all.  Amazing how these issues just keep hanging out in Sageverse.

    Client will be purchasing another license after "freeloading" all of these years.......

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    Jeff Schwenk
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    (540) 221-4444
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