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  • 1.  Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-15-2020 15:06
    Trying to copy production to test company so I can try @Brian Kelly 's suggestion on CC processing but can't get past the "you must convert before copying" message.  Sage has a KB on it.  It appears that the sy_enhancementmodulecode table is causing the issue with a mismatched level.  I changed the field and reconverted but the copy still won't budge.

    Anyone else self isolating today and has encountered this situation?​

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    Jeff Schwenk
    FORMER 90M Board Member
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    Waynesboro VA
    540-221-4444
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  • 2.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-15-2020 15:49
    I've had issues copying companies when there are non- standard folders in the data folders.  Like a "direct deposit" folder in PRXXX.

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    Doug Higgs
    Midwest Commerce Solutions, Inc
    (312) 315-0960
    Assistant to the Traveling Secretary
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  • 3.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-15-2020 16:49
    Hmmmmm.  Interesting!

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    Jeff Schwenk
    FORMER 90M Board Member
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    Waynesboro VA
    540-221-4444
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  • 4.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-19-2020 14:25
    @Jeff Schwenk, were you able to resolve this? ​

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    - Brett
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  • 5.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-19-2020 15:01
    Edited by Jeff Schwenk 03-19-2020 15:31
    ASI tech support connected yesterday and ultimately had to add a record to one of the enhancement tables which allowed the copy to go through.  Yea!

    Also bent his ear about not being able to use a chip reader remotely (via a RDS connection).  This inability results in more effort for the client to process the card.  Client does NOT want to key the card number into Sage as that is slow AND they are then liable for any fraud rejections. Client will be running about 2K a month in merchant fees through this store.  Chip readers work at their main (non remote) store (nearly 4K in monthly merchant fees) which can use the APS interface.  From an end user perspective, it makes no sense.  Just called Patty Benitez and bent her ear as well.  Maybe as it is with Sage, if you complain to the sales department, the money will be found for the fix...  Hard to believe that I have the only client using RDS to connect with Sage and process CC's

    So as it stands now (per APS), client options are 1) Key the number into Sage and incur higher fees and assume liability for charge backs, 2) Use a chip reader that does not interface with Sage or 3)  Use an APS certified swipe reader which WILL interface with Sage but incur higher merchant fees and be liable for fraud chargebacks......

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    Jeff Schwenk
    FORMER 90M Board Member
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    Waynesboro VA
    540-221-4444
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  • 6.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-19-2020 15:39
    I asked Patty about chip/pin over RDS at MOTM a couple years ago.  We worked with SPS a couple years before that to try and get it to work for a specific customer, with no success.
    (I've been tapping to pay for groceries for more than a decade... we in Canada have adopted chip cards loooooong ago, and it will be nice if Sage can catch up).

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
    Toronto ON
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  • 7.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-19-2020 17:02
    Small difference - None of the supermarkets that I've worked with are using terminal services - they are usually client/server or they use Linux.  They are not using Microsoft or Citrix terminal services, and BOTH of those mess with chip readers.  This doesn't mean we are not working to resolve this issue, but it is a lot harder than it appears.
    Chip readers work great with Sage Advanced or Premium, or Sage 100 Standard running directly on the workstation where there isn't a OS layer screwing with it.
    But hey, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it, yes?

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    Bob Sosbee
    Senior Developer
    Accounting Systems, Inc. (ASI)
    Covina CA
    803-252-6154 x245
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  • 8.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-19-2020 17:21
    The problem we kept running into was the USB devices (IPP320?) not being recognized in the terminal session.  All efforts at a COM port redirects failed to work.  I looked at remote USB mapping (with encryption), but the setup was really complex and we didn't even take that to the testing stage since it is not something we'd want to recommend (without the endorsement of the CC processor).

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    Kevin Moyes
    Technical Systems Analyst
    Munjal White Consulting Co.
    Toronto ON
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  • 9.  RE: Unable to copy live company to test

    Posted 03-20-2020 09:50
    @Bob Sosbee - Reminds me of being five and a half years old and listening to JFK's speech on going to the moon.  Somehow I knew right then and there I wanted to be a Sage reseller and do great things with my life......

    We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

    ​We are cheering you on in your pursuit of interfacing the chip reader with an RDS connection!!!

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