Sage 100

Does anyone have any details / experience with this feature?


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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON
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You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area
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I have a client setup and using this.  Overall, it works great.  I received most of the attached information from Kent Mackall, a Sage Engineer.  I have added some information.  Regarding my comment under Cash Receipts at the end of the word document, Kathy Newte is looking into a better, different solution,although not guaranteed.  For now I have recommended to my client to add 2 GL lines on the cash receipt to credit the bank account and debit the credit card clearing account.  If the customer is set up to receive an invoice via paperless office, the customer will receive the normal e-mail and an additional e-mail from Paya.  If there are important customizations to the invoice form, then this can be beneficial, otherwise take the customer off of e-mailing.  I will be recommending the eInvoicing to my clients.

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[Michele] [Herzog] [CPA,CITP, CGMA]
[Overland Park] [KS]
[816-520-1365]
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-03-2020 17:08
From: Brett Zimmerman
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area
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Also, it is very easy to setup once you have the correct credentials.

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[Michele] [Herzog] [CPA,CITP, CGMA]
[Overland Park] [KS]
[816-520-1365]
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-03-2020 17:08
From: Brett Zimmerman
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area
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A colleague called Sage support and confirmed there is no additional cost to use Payment Center.  Apparently there may be more info available after you have access... brilliant planning.  Some KB articles:
Payment Center - Dashboard Features
What is Payment Center?
Payment Center contact information
The first link indicates data cannot write back to Sage 100.
Reading between the lines: it's more of a reporting / dashboard tool vs. something functional.

Michelle / Wayne,
Thanks for the replies... eInvoicing / click-to-pay is something else.

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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-03-2020 17:08
From: Brett Zimmerman
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area
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The 1st link is if a payment is processed directly in PAYA.  With e-invoicing the payments do come into cash receipts.

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[Michele] [Herzog] [CPA,CITP, CGMA]
[Overland Park] [KS]
[816-520-1365]
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2020 14:52
From: Kevin Moyes
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

A colleague called Sage support and confirmed there is no additional cost to use Payment Center.  Apparently there may be more info available after you have access... brilliant planning.  Some KB articles:
Payment Center - Dashboard Features
What is Payment Center?
Payment Center contact information
The first link indicates data cannot write back to Sage 100.
Reading between the lines: it's more of a reporting / dashboard tool vs. something functional.

Michelle / Wayne,
Thanks for the replies... eInvoicing / click-to-pay is something else.

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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-03-2020 17:08
From: Brett Zimmerman
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area

Thanks Michelle. 
If the Sage Payment Center is just a link to Paya Connect / the Paya portal, OK.  Dashboard / ability to work with batches... useful tools, certainly.
If the functional online payment features are stand-alone with no integration points, then that should be clearly stated, by Sage, in their documentation.  I'm not sure anyone running Sage 100 will want to create an external invoice in Paya, just to have to re-enter things in Sage 100.

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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2020 16:26
From: Michele Herzog
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

The 1st link is if a payment is processed directly in PAYA.  With e-invoicing the payments do come into cash receipts.

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[Michele] [Herzog] [CPA,CITP, CGMA]
[Overland Park] [KS]
[816-520-1365]
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2020 14:52
From: Kevin Moyes
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

A colleague called Sage support and confirmed there is no additional cost to use Payment Center.  Apparently there may be more info available after you have access... brilliant planning.  Some KB articles:
Payment Center - Dashboard Features
What is Payment Center?
Payment Center contact information
The first link indicates data cannot write back to Sage 100.
Reading between the lines: it's more of a reporting / dashboard tool vs. something functional.

Michelle / Wayne,
Thanks for the replies... eInvoicing / click-to-pay is something else.

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Kevin Moyes
Technical Systems Analyst
Munjal White Consulting Co.
Toronto ON


Original Message:
Sent: 10-03-2020 17:08
From: Brett Zimmerman
Subject: Sage Payment Center?

You are correct in being very wary. Last when @Wayne Schulz and I looked into it, ​we came up pretty-much empty. No one at Sage could provide any info.  Seemed to be some sort of bait and switch, at least that's how I felt. The one thing in particular that caught my attention was the promise of being able to accept payments from anywhere and have them integrate with Sage 100. Absolutely no one could provide any info on how that works. I think there's a couple threads in 90 Minds.

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Brett Zimmerman
Net at Work
Greater Boston Area

This sounds very similar to APS ClickToPay which has been around for a while. I have a customer  I put on that solution perhaps 3-5 years ago and the initial setup was around 30 minutes. I've heard from them about this particular integration maybe twice in that time. The customer is not sophisticated at all and was attracted to the solution because they did a lot of governmental work and the various departments were forever calling on the due day to pay invoices by credit card. This way the user can pay the invoices themselves without having to call.

I think ASI did the integration and there were a couple of things  I worked with them on at the outset but since then it's been smooth sailing.

Here's the APS Payments manual.

At the time that my customer was looking Sage and/or Paya either didn't have a solution or getting information from them was difficult/impossible.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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