Stock monitoring

[00lewis]

Happy New Year to all,

The company that i work for is currently moving to sage mms http://www.sage.co.uk/productsandser...65&stid=131941
ideally i would like to link actinic to this to have up-to-date monitoring of stock, Also does this automatic upload/re-upload?

If this can not be done can anybody suggest other alternatives i could use, We are worried that if or when the site picks up that this could become a timely manual process!

i am aware of actinics built in stock monitoring, and that you can download a patch to automaticly to download orders and then re-upload the new sock qtys.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated

[Jan]

You can do this if you use the Actinic sage link with our One Stop Automation products, take a look at these links on our forums for more details of how to set this up.

Linking Actinic to Sage, for multiple sites.
http://www.mole-end.biz/ME_Forums/to...p?TOPIC_ID=140

Linking Sage to Actinic
http://www.mole-end.biz/ME_Forums/to...p?TOPIC_ID=183

and you can find more details for our automation program and a free trial at this URL :

http://www.mole-end.biz/acatalog/One...r-Actinic.html

Regards,

[00lewis]

will this allow me to link actinic to sage mms, or is it its own database type thing, I have read the links and have got confused. does it work as part of actinic or as a seporate program?

Also has anybody else been using this software and what do they think of it?
The first option is to be able to link to sage mms, But i understands that to get programers/developers to do this would cost around £15,000- £2000. unless the sage line50 works on sage mms (doubtful).

[Jan]

One Stop Automation is a plugin for Actinic, that allows you to automate Actinic, it is a separate program that runs Actinic for you.

I misread your post though, Actinic link is for Sage Line 50, I don't know if it will work with Sage MMS. It's unlikely in my opinion - lets hope that someone will come along and prove me wrong though. If it does, my solution will work for you if it doesn't then it will not.

Regards,

[00lewis]

so its your plug in that automaticaly download an order and re-loads the new stock numbers?

Am i correct in thinking that your software will only work for sage line50.
Do you know if it will work for sage line100, this is our current sage package, In about 3-4 moths we will be transfering over to sage MMS.

when our shopping site goes live, i do not expect it to pick up quick so hopefully we will be able to managed with manually chaning the stock amounts.

Do you think it will work by manually chaning the stock levels within Actinic.?

thanks for the help so far.

[cdicken]

Hi Steve

Jan's One Stop Automation feature will automatically retrieve orders from your website, update stock levels accordingly and then upload to the website, marking any products out of stock that need to be marked as such. You can schedule this to happen ever hour, 10 minutes etc. etc.

It's nothing to do with Actinic Link for Sage, which does only work with Sage Line 50 - neither Mole-End or Actinic can help you with your Line 100 and MMS issues.

All you will be able to do with Sage Line 100/MMS is, as you say, manually updating the stock levels. The alternative to this is to allocate a certain number of stock items to be sold online, and then enter this stock level into Actinic.

[00lewis]

ok thats sounds good, i will try out the free trails and see how it goes,

Does the software only work when that computer is on, so at weekends for stock control purposes i can only hope that sales do not go mad? Unless we leave the computer on.

Also i had a quick look at one of the tabs and i notice that you can select to set the maximum order qy to the stock minimum. I tried this and was still able to place an order over the max qty, Is this not the key selling point of this product?

Many thanks

Oh also is the free trails the same as the full version, but obviously just need to purchase the serial key?

[Jan]

Does the software only work when that computer is on, so at weekends for stock control purposes i can only hope that sales do not go mad? Unless we leave the computer on.

The software will only work when the computer you have installed it on is switched on, so you do need to leave your computers on to monitor stock over night and at the weekend.

Also i had a quick look at one of the tabs and i notice that you can select to set the maximum order qy to the stock minimum. I tried this and was still able to place an order over the max qty

This shouldn't happen, it is likely that either a) the site was not uploaded (you can set it up to upload always, when an order is received or when an item goes out of stock) or that b) the stock monitoring settings on the product you were testing were not quite right.

Oh also is the free trails the same as the full version, but obviously just need to purchase the serial key?

It is the same.

Regards,

[00lewis]

ok thanks for the help i think that once i have worked it all out this will be a good product to add onto actinic, purely for the maximum order qty being set as the stock level.

I will have to speak to the man with the dosh and hopfully perchase this item.

well done you for noticing your sales oppertunity here in this forum.

[Jan]

Jan's One Stop Automation feature ....
It's nothing to do with Actinic Link for Sage,

Actually, there is a relationship here, you can use One Stop Automation to automated the link to and from Sage. We've been working with Brian Johnson on this recently and between us we have come up with a nice little solution for quickbooks US that shoud also work with Sage.

Regards,

[Mike Hughes]

we have come up with a nice little solution for quickbooks US

That's right, keep us all in suspense.

What does this do and is there any reason it shouldn't work with the UK/ROW version?

Mike

[Jan]

It will work with the UK quickbooks link as well but you don't have the facility to send stock levels back to quickbooks in the UK version.

The links in my second posting tell you how to set it all up, here they are again

Linking Actinic to Sage, for multiple sites.
http://www.mole-end.biz/ME_Forums/to...p?TOPIC_ID=140

Linking Sage to Actinic
http://www.mole-end.biz/ME_Forums/to...p?TOPIC_ID=183

Cheers,