SWK Handling HighTower Customer and Reseller Support

Since 1999, HighTower has partnered with SWK Technologies, a leading Sage developer and business partner, to better serve our mutual clients.

Effective today, Friday March 23, 2012, SWK will be handling all HighTower client support, as well as supporting resellers of HighTower enhancements.

SWK will provide telephone & remote support from Monday through Friday, between 8:30AM and 5:30PM Eastern time. Calls will be handled on a first come, first served basis, with special consideration to mission-critical issues. Simply call 877.979.5462, email info@swktech.com or use the SWK Support Portal at http://support.swktech.com/

Video Tips: Printing AP Checks by Vendor Name in Sage MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL

Learn how to print Accounts Payable checks in Sage MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL by watching the video linked below.

Printing AP Checks by Vendor Name (2:04)

Video Tips: Wire Transfers for Sage ERP MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL

What follows is a feature tour of Sage ERP MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL. These feature tours focus on wire transfers.

Set Up and Enter a Wire Transfer (3:13)


Inquiring on a Wire Transfer (2:03)


Reversing a Wire Transfer (2:17)

Timekeeper for Client Billing

Traditional methods for capturing billable time on projects can cost your company money. Relying on paper forms, email, and spreadsheets prolongs the data gathering process, introduces errors, and often misses hours and employee expenses that should have been billed. You can overcome these costly shortcomings by implementing a project time-tracking software.

Why is this important?

Getting your invoicing done quickly and accurately is a key to optimal cash flow. The sooner you bill, the sooner your receivables can be available as working capital. Your profitability is a function of this “cash flow velocity.” So it’s vital that your billing processes are as streamlined as possible. Unfortunately, in many organizations this is far from the case. Many struggle with manual methods for submitting and reviewing hours, managing project-related items, coordinating approvals, processing expenses, and much more. These factors impede cash flow, hindering profitability just as much as clients who pay late.

This problem is compounded in many situations because billing depends on capturing the appropriate hours and expenses from multiple employees. Normally, invoices can’t be sent until this information is collected from everyone involved in a project. But people are too often late in submitting their hours, or fail to submit them altogether. It becomes a prolonged effort to collect all the information needed to prepare invoices for sizable projects.

A related problem is billing accuracy. To invoice accurately you need precise information about factors that can vary. For example, different individuals are billed at different rates, or the same individual’s time is billed differently per task. Before invoicing, their hours and rates must be calculated, which can be tedious and slow if done manually. And if any of this data has to be re-entered at any stage, errors can result. Such problems only increase with the number of workers. And what happens if billing is wrong? Contested invoices delay payment, and can erode client confidence and loyalty.

All of these difficulties can be overcome by implementing software that simplifies and centralizes data entry and management. User adoption rises, and information about billable hours, becomes available instantly, making it easy to shorten billing cycles and accelerate cash flow.

http://www.timekeepersoftware.com/

Video Tips: Quick Printing in Sales Order for Sage ERP MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL

Below is a feature tour of Sage ERP MAS 90, 200 and 200 SQL. These feature tours focus on "quick printing".

Set Up Quick Printing In Sales Order


Quick Printing in Sales Order Entry


Quick Printing in SO Invoice Data Entry

HighTower Earns Prestigious VAR Star Award

HighTower is proud to announce that is has made Bob Scott's Insights VAR Star list for 2011. The VAR Star list is a selection of 100 mid-market accounting software resellers based on one basic principal as the deciding factor: quality, not revenue. From one-person shops to large, multi-location Value Added Resellers (VARs) have been selected in past years’ and in this year’s rendition of the list.

Read the full press release on the HighTower website.

Multi-Bin v4.4 Service Pack Update

A major service pack/update to our Multi-Bin Advanced Distribution enhancement MAS 90 and MAS 200 v4.4 is now available.

The service pack contains many fixes and is recommended for all users of Multi-Bin Advanced Distribution for Sage MAS 90/200 v4.4. The service pack is available on the HighTower website as well as the non-branded Multi-Bin product website for resellers.

If you have third party modifications, you must check with your Master Developer before applying any HighTower service packs.

Before making any upgrades, ensure that:

* You have the latest Sage service packs installed
* You back up your system
* You have read the system requirements