Sage Line 50 support

[G_Hughes]

I read that Actinic has support for importing products and customers from Sage Line 50. Does anyone have any experience of this? Our shop uses Sage for its accounts, but the manager wants to be able to access information such as sales for particular designers over certain periods, customer purchase history etc. At the moment, we can't really do all this in Sage, and it looks like I'm going to have to go through all the reciepts for the past 12 months. All we can do is get how much stock we bought and sold for each designer in a certain season.

We are looking at developing an E-commerce site, and I'm considering the options. If we could integrate Actinic and Sage to access this information easily in the future, it would be a huge bonus, and would save a lot of man-hours.

Any help would be appreciated.

[cdicken]

Version 2.0 of Actinic Link for Sage Line 50 is available to download and evaluate from
http://www.actinicdownloads.com/link/index.htm

The software allows you to:

1) Transfer products, customers and discount structures from Sage Line 50 into Actinic.

2) Transfer orders from Actinic into Sage Line 50, raising invoices and sales orders as required. You can also transfer order details via a batch invoice transfer

Actinic Link for Sage Line 50 v2.0 will also create new customer accounts in Sage for any new retail orders that come in.

With regards to your issue with doing customer-based reporting, Actinic itself can run a report that will give you all the orders from your customer accounts within a set time period. This may go someway towards what you need. I'm surprised Sage does not give you this level of detail. Doesn't Sage have the ability to write custom reports?

Anyone else got experience with this?

[G_Hughes]

I don't know to be honest, I'm not an accountant, but Vicki, (accounting lady) tells me it's not possible. This makes Sage basically a glorified calculator in the store. She tells me it was a waste of money in her opinion, and at £12,000, I'm inclined to agree. Even getting stock bought over stock sold is a mission, and Mark wants much more detail, as he's trying to find out which clothing lines have been performing over the past 2 years over different seasons and periods, as he's trying to cut £60,000 out of his budget. (It's all designer stuff.)

To be honest, even if we can automate getting the orders recieved online onto Sage, it'll be a bonus, I was trying to find out if it was any more use in the context I described.