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Is it just me or does Sage give confusing information about how to log in and register for sessions.

They ask that you register and submit a password.

Then in the registration confirmation email ( which I  appear to have received in triplicate with separate logins for each day ) they provide a different user name to use and login - but advise you use the password submitted during the registration ( Spoiler: Mine didn't work ). And then on the login screen there is no forgot password - so I presume you are either stuck emailing Sage and debugging their reg system or just waiting and hoping for the best on 10/27.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Yes, I had the same problems. After e-mailing the general e-mail on Thursday, I just e-mailed the SagePartnerDay@sage.com and also sara.straw@sage.com to see if I receive a response tomorrow. There is also no way to access Sessions. I would normally contact our trusty PAM, but she is now history.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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Yes, I encountered frustration as well during the sign up.  After 30 minutes of clicking around, I shut it down and had a glass of wine.  It drove me to drink.  I managed to register, was assigned the main sessions, could not see any break out session.  Since it is virtual this year, I can't imagine missing out on sessions due to space limitations.

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-18-2020 20:42
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Yes, I had the same problems. After e-mailing the general e-mail on Thursday, I just e-mailed the SagePartnerDay@sage.com and also sara.straw@sage.com to see if I receive a response tomorrow. There is also no way to access Sessions. I would normally contact our trusty PAM, but she is now history.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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I also emailed the provided address. Heard nothing. No reply.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-18-2020
From: John Hoyt
Subject: RE: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Yes, I had the same problems. After e-mailing the general e-mail on Thursday, I just e-mailed the SagePartnerDay@sage.com and also sara.straw@sage.com to see if I receive a response tomorrow. There is also no way to access Sessions. I would normally contact our trusty PAM, but she is now history.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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I agree with all of you regarding how confusing it was.  In the end, I believe there is only one session for each product line on Wed (10/28).  The general session for everyone is on Tue (10/27) from 1pm to 4:15pm ET.  The Sage 100 & Sage 300 session is combined into one session on Wed from 11am to 12:45pm ET.  And finally, the Partner Recognition hour is from 5pm-6pm Wed.

Like all of you, I was expecting to see several breakout sessions for each product line.  Instead, it is one breakout session per product line and they do NOT overlap.  If you carry multiple products, you can attend ALL the sessions.  At least, I think that's how they set this up.

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Brian Kelly
President and Head Cheerleader
Accounting Systems, Inc. (ASI)
Columbia SC
803-252-6154 x210
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I did receive a response e-mail from Sara Straw. She referred this to another Sage person - Kerri Davies, who may shed some light on this. Kerri is the Events Manager and has been with Sage for 20 years. I hope that means something.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 08:52
From: Brian Kelly
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I agree with all of you regarding how confusing it was.  In the end, I believe there is only one session for each product line on Wed (10/28).  The general session for everyone is on Tue (10/27) from 1pm to 4:15pm ET.  The Sage 100 & Sage 300 session is combined into one session on Wed from 11am to 12:45pm ET.  And finally, the Partner Recognition hour is from 5pm-6pm Wed.

Like all of you, I was expecting to see several breakout sessions for each product line.  Instead, it is one breakout session per product line and they do NOT overlap.  If you carry multiple products, you can attend ALL the sessions.  At least, I think that's how they set this up.

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Brian Kelly
President and Head Cheerleader
Accounting Systems, Inc. (ASI)
Columbia SC
803-252-6154 x210
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>>been with Sage for 20 years. I hope that means something.

In general it means good at hiding

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 10:21
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I did receive a response e-mail from Sara Straw. She referred this to another Sage person - Kerri Davies, who may shed some light on this. Kerri is the Events Manager and has been with Sage for 20 years. I hope that means something.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 08:52
From: Brian Kelly
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I agree with all of you regarding how confusing it was.  In the end, I believe there is only one session for each product line on Wed (10/28).  The general session for everyone is on Tue (10/27) from 1pm to 4:15pm ET.  The Sage 100 & Sage 300 session is combined into one session on Wed from 11am to 12:45pm ET.  And finally, the Partner Recognition hour is from 5pm-6pm Wed.

Like all of you, I was expecting to see several breakout sessions for each product line.  Instead, it is one breakout session per product line and they do NOT overlap.  If you carry multiple products, you can attend ALL the sessions.  At least, I think that's how they set this up.

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Brian Kelly
President and Head Cheerleader
Accounting Systems, Inc. (ASI)
Columbia SC
803-252-6154 x210

And REALLY averse to job hunting...

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Phil McIntosh
President
Friendly Systems, Inc.
Asheville NC
678.273.4010 ext 5
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 10:37
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

>>been with Sage for 20 years. I hope that means something.

In general it means good at hiding

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 10:21
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I did receive a response e-mail from Sara Straw. She referred this to another Sage person - Kerri Davies, who may shed some light on this. Kerri is the Events Manager and has been with Sage for 20 years. I hope that means something.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 08:52
From: Brian Kelly
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I agree with all of you regarding how confusing it was.  In the end, I believe there is only one session for each product line on Wed (10/28).  The general session for everyone is on Tue (10/27) from 1pm to 4:15pm ET.  The Sage 100 & Sage 300 session is combined into one session on Wed from 11am to 12:45pm ET.  And finally, the Partner Recognition hour is from 5pm-6pm Wed.

Like all of you, I was expecting to see several breakout sessions for each product line.  Instead, it is one breakout session per product line and they do NOT overlap.  If you carry multiple products, you can attend ALL the sessions.  At least, I think that's how they set this up.

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Brian Kelly
President and Head Cheerleader
Accounting Systems, Inc. (ASI)
Columbia SC
803-252-6154 x210

By comparison, the platform ( https://www.rainfocus.com/ ) being used by Sage Intacct for their conference 10/20-21 seems much better coordinated.  One place to login and you can review and change schedules pretty easily. Maybe they'll use this for Sage Summit when/if it reschedules.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Or once everyone migrates to Intacct it is used by default....

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 11:39
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

By comparison, the platform ( https://www.rainfocus.com/ ) being used by Sage Intacct for their conference 10/20-21 seems much better coordinated.  One place to login and you can review and change schedules pretty easily. Maybe they'll use this for Sage Summit when/if it reschedules.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Maybe but given that the Intacct Advantage sessions appear to have just one inventory update I’m not sure how quickly Intacct will be ready to accommodate Sage 100 or 300 or 500 migrations where distribution modules are used.

For the foreseeable future i think you’ll see SIC code companies not using inventory as the key migration targets.

I don’t know what percentage that is - maybe 1/4? I do sense a lot of GLAPAR types were either scared off by the constant price hikes or have been acquired and in turn swap to the acquirers accounting system

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020
From: Jeff Schwenk
Subject: RE: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Or once everyone migrates to Intacct it is used by default....

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Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
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I did hear back from Kerri - she reset my password and went through what I had thought the sessions section would be. Did not work, so it may be my user name, which was supposed to be given to us upon registration, but it was not. I was using my e-mail address.

They will be adding Forgot Password? Isn't that a standard best practice?

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 12:40
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Maybe but given that the Intacct Advantage sessions appear to have just one inventory update I'm not sure how quickly Intacct will be ready to accommodate Sage 100 or 300 or 500 migrations where distribution modules are used.

For the foreseeable future i think you'll see SIC code companies not using inventory as the key migration targets.

I don't know what percentage that is - maybe 1/4? I do sense a lot of GLAPAR types were either scared off by the constant price hikes or have been acquired and in turn swap to the acquirers accounting system

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020
From: Jeff Schwenk
Subject: RE: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Or once everyone migrates to Intacct it is used by default....

------------------------------
Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 11:39
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

By comparison, the platform ( https://www.rainfocus.com/ ) being used by Sage Intacct for their conference 10/20-21 seems much better coordinated.  One place to login and you can review and change schedules pretty easily. Maybe they'll use this for Sage Summit when/if it reschedules.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990

Your e-mail address is not your user name. As it indicated, this was assigned when you registered. The problem is my registration confirmation just arrived 10 minutes ago, even though I registered on 10/15.

I successfully logged in and was excited to now see the other sessions . . . and it was about as exciting as Al Capone's Vault - nothing! There are no other sessions, and the ones we have are those related to our indicated product.

Should we all total up the time we all wasted on this? If I skip the 10/28 sessions from 12:50 - 2:30, that should make up for this.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 14:07
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I did hear back from Kerri - she reset my password and went through what I had thought the sessions section would be. Did not work, so it may be my user name, which was supposed to be given to us upon registration, but it was not. I was using my e-mail address.

They will be adding Forgot Password? Isn't that a standard best practice?

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 12:40
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Maybe but given that the Intacct Advantage sessions appear to have just one inventory update I'm not sure how quickly Intacct will be ready to accommodate Sage 100 or 300 or 500 migrations where distribution modules are used.

For the foreseeable future i think you'll see SIC code companies not using inventory as the key migration targets.

I don't know what percentage that is - maybe 1/4? I do sense a lot of GLAPAR types were either scared off by the constant price hikes or have been acquired and in turn swap to the acquirers accounting system

---------------------------------
Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020
From: Jeff Schwenk
Subject: RE: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Or once everyone migrates to Intacct it is used by default....

------------------------------
Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 11:39
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

By comparison, the platform ( https://www.rainfocus.com/ ) being used by Sage Intacct for their conference 10/20-21 seems much better coordinated.  One place to login and you can review and change schedules pretty easily. Maybe they'll use this for Sage Summit when/if it reschedules.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990

Fortunately the only time I spent on it was reading this thread:-)

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Phil McIntosh
President
Friendly Systems, Inc.
Asheville NC
678.273.4010 ext 5
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 14:27
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Your e-mail address is not your user name. As it indicated, this was assigned when you registered. The problem is my registration confirmation just arrived 10 minutes ago, even though I registered on 10/15.

I successfully logged in and was excited to now see the other sessions . . . and it was about as exciting as Al Capone's Vault - nothing! There are no other sessions, and the ones we have are those related to our indicated product.

Should we all total up the time we all wasted on this? If I skip the 10/28 sessions from 12:50 - 2:30, that should make up for this.

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John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 14:07
From: John Hoyt
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

I did hear back from Kerri - she reset my password and went through what I had thought the sessions section would be. Did not work, so it may be my user name, which was supposed to be given to us upon registration, but it was not. I was using my e-mail address.

They will be adding Forgot Password? Isn't that a standard best practice?

------------------------------
John Hoyt, Co-Founder
Next Level Manufacturing Consulting Group
johnh@nextlevelMCG.com


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 12:40
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Maybe but given that the Intacct Advantage sessions appear to have just one inventory update I'm not sure how quickly Intacct will be ready to accommodate Sage 100 or 300 or 500 migrations where distribution modules are used.

For the foreseeable future i think you'll see SIC code companies not using inventory as the key migration targets.

I don't know what percentage that is - maybe 1/4? I do sense a lot of GLAPAR types were either scared off by the constant price hikes or have been acquired and in turn swap to the acquirers accounting system

---------------------------------
Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020
From: Jeff Schwenk
Subject: RE: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

Or once everyone migrates to Intacct it is used by default....

------------------------------
Jeff Schwenk
FORMER 90M Board Member
Bottomline Software, Inc.
Waynesboro VA
540-221-4444


Original Message:
Sent: 10-19-2020 11:39
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Sage FY 21 Kickoffs 10/27 and 10/28 Registration Issues?

By comparison, the platform ( https://www.rainfocus.com/ ) being used by Sage Intacct for their conference 10/20-21 seems much better coordinated.  One place to login and you can review and change schedules pretty easily. Maybe they'll use this for Sage Summit when/if it reschedules.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990