Sage News and Discussion

Sage Fixed Assets: Based on feedback we've received from our channel community and to align to a standard experience across Sage North America, we have make some adjustments to our programs and processes. Effective immediately, Sage Fixed Assets certified partners will be paid on Sage Business Care renewal marginsregardless of who closes the deal. We are discontinuing the use of the Sage Fixed Assets ERP pricing and will leverage the 15% in the family discount promotion for cross-selling into the Sage ERP base. Please provide a list of any outstanding Sage Fixed Assets ERP pricing quotes that you have delivered to customers to your Sage business development manager by January 15, 2015, and we will honor them through January 31, 2015. Achieve your next growth tier faster with double tier margin on all Sage Fixed Assets orders. Sage Fixed Assets works with any ERP solution, so even if your prospect is not a Sage ERP user, you can position Sage Fixed Assets as a bolt onto their current ERP system and remain ""sticky"" to that customer. The Sage Fixed Assets team is here to help! You do not need to be an expert on fixed assets to succeed--we can supply whatever assistance you need to close more deals: Demo and sales engineers are available. Sales personnel are available to help during the sales cycle. PSG and training teams can help with training, installations, data conversions, and custom integrations to any ERP. For questions or assistance, please reach out to your Sage Fixed Assets sales representative or contact the SFA channel team. Your success is our success!

Your success is our success!"" is a motivating ending. Whose failure is whose then? Then there is this enticing offer: ""PSG and training teams can help with training, installations, data conversions, and custom integrations to any ERP."" This, of course, includes Sage 100. And if you have no Fixed Assets certified consultants on staff, it's probably automatic. We have 2 certified consultants, so the above does not apply - maybe. It's interesting how the Fixed Assets pricing has evolved (upward). With the original EES bundle and with the Fixed Assets for MAS 90/200, both with only 1,500 assets, it was a module and could be accessed with the concurrent ERP licenses. That didn't really mean much, because at the most there are usually only 2 users who accessed it. Then Sage released the Sage Fixed Assets ERP pricing, which was $2,500 for 1 network seat and $5,000 for 3 network seats (either OS). It amuses me that Fixed Assets and HRMS are still using the archaic ""seat"" term. Now customers get the 15% in the family promotion off of the standard product pricing, which results in a 55% increase for 1 network USER and 17% increase for 3 network USERS, after the discount. And the annual maintenance is higher, based on the list prices. And every time I review this with a customer, they want 2 users, and I have to explain what a deal they are getting for 3 (""But I only need 2.""). It turns out to be a deal now. With the old ERP pricing, it was $2,500 more to go from 1 to 3 users. Now it will only be $2,000 more. I'm motivated! And as the original Twitter used to respond: ""Success!

I always installed the single seat to the network and told the users that only one person could be in it at one time. Worked like a charm back in the day. Sage did get a little huffy if you called for tech support and found out it was installed on the network but they always resolved the issue.

Easier to do business with"" means the license we were quoting just increased by 40%.

I am very puzzled by Fixed Assets. I would think it's a minor piece, and yet it is $40M/yr !?

My response: Wow. I knew that the ERP pricing for Fixed Assets wasn't retired without any notice but I didn't expect the price increase to be 40%. Sage's reply: ... realized that I was mixing up the pricing ... quite a jump in price from the old FAS pricing unfortunately. (attached: 76% price increase)