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Modulus Training is a scam
Just a heads up really if you are an IT company looking to train your staff give Modulus Training a very wide berth. I was supposed to be on a 3 day course this week for which I paid over a £1000 for and long story short, I’ve been conned.
What basically happened was I found the course, The course looked exactly what I was looking for. So I booked it, and then was told a course induction pack would be sent. I waited, and waited.
Thursday before the Royal Wedding still no pack and I was due to attend to the course on the Tuesday so started chasing hard. Was told, O delegates have dropped out will have to postpone for a couple of weeks, I could go on that course I get a refund. In the meantime I found this sitehttp://www.rennie-bottali.org.uk/ setup by another disgruntled punter.
Bottom line is this, DO NOT pay for any training from Modulus Training, they will not deliver!
As the businessman (or should that be scammer?) behind is about 20 minutes away from me I’m paying him a visit.
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Got a burning question?
I receive enquiries via email and sometimes via comments on the site. Unfortunately I get so many spam comments the genuine ones get lost. To combat this I thought putting this contact form in a prominent position would help you if you have any questions/enquries regarding the Sage products or integration or even bespoke development.
Please use this form to get in touch.
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Chasing Your Tail or Chasing Your Money?
Getting paid on time is a constant frustration for any business. Seven years ago I developed an add-on for Sage 50 (and Instant) that automatically sends email reminders to customers with overdue invoices. At the time it had limited success due mainly to lack of email addresses being held in the system.
Fast forward 11 years and many organisations are try to do everything electronically to be kind to the environment and streamline processes. Perhaps now eCredit the automated credit control tool can help your business, you can read more here.
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Sage 50 to mySQL
I am getting alot of requests lately in exporting data from Sage to mySQL as an automatic process. I now have a beta running and would like to invite anyone who needs this functionality to please get in touch. This will extract all Sage 50 data on a schedule you determine. This will enable you to export the data to either a local/network or even Internet hosted copy of mySQL.
The reason for doing this is two-fold;
I have customers with large datasets starting to encounter performance issues (they are on the verge of outgrowing Sage 50)
There were customers having issues getting the server part of the Sage 50 for iPhone solution configured. Now there will be a central secure repository (at remotediscovery.com) where this application will export your data and the iphone app will connect to this site with your credentials to allow you to view your Sage data on the go.
Of course with the data in a full relational database there are all sorts of possibilites in terms of integration/customisation!
Just send an email to mysqlbeta at domorewith.com
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Sage mySQL no more…
For those of you that we aware Sage have been working on a version of Sage 50 which uses the open, standard database engine, mySQL, codenamed Sage 100. This was a supposed to improve performance for those customers running large volumes of data through Sage 50 (yes I know who you are…..I’ve seen those 7000 customers on your sales ledger 
) but a very recent announcement from Sage has stated that development has stopped.
Reasons aren’t entirely clear, my thinking was that if it didnt offer the ability to talk the database across the WAN (i.e. Internet) as well as the LAN then its not *that* much of a forward leap. My experience is that customers move from Sage 50 not due to data volumes but for functionality, things like multi-location stock.
Of course this isn’t the first time they’ve done a U-turn, last year the very poor and buggy Sage Live was almost drowned at birth. The SaaS offering never really got started before being shelved and allowing all the SaaS boys to further strengthen their offerings and increase market share.
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Coming Soon….Dashboard+
Dashboard+ is coming soon….
What is Dashboard+? Dashboard+ builds on the principles of the free dashboard product by giving you instant access to key data within your Sage 50 or Sage Instant accounting system. But Dashboard+ adds a host of new features such as;
- Drag and drop design of new dashboard widgets
- Create new dashboard ‘tabs’ so you organise the display how ‘you’ want
- Ability to create new key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Web based interface
- Central KPI repository, as new KPIs get added and requested they are available to ALL subscribers
Dashboard+ will be available on a subscription basis where you receive the product, updates and full support on an ongoing basis. Don’t know SQL to create your own KPIs? Your subscription includes full SQL support, if you want a specific KPI that can be derived from your Sage data we will create it!
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Other Accounting Systems
Tools for YOUR accounting system
After the popularity of the FREE tools now its time to look after the needs of non-Sage users. Shortly available will be the dashboard and explorer tool for Quickbooks.
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Sage 50 ODBC Explorer
Sage 50 ODBC Explorer
This FREE tool will allow you to access and extract information from any Sage table. If you are proficient in SQL you can extract exactly the data you need. If not simply double click any of the listed Sage tables to view all of the data.
The ODBC explorer allows you to export Sage data to MS Excel or CSV format.
You can get your copy by sending a blank email to this address
If you want SQL training then please contact me.
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Sage 50 or Sage 200 data online?
I’ve been working on a couple of projects to extract data via scheduled jobs to place on remote servers of late. It was something I was mulling over as the one big sticking point with the iPhone connect for Sage 50 application is for a user being able to configure their firewall to allow external access. My thinking is to charge a nominal monthly fee (and no upfront cost) for a tool which extracts your Sage 50 or Sage 200 (in an extremely efficient manner!), uploads it to a secure site where you will able to view/filter and report on your Sage data.
What I don’t know is how much do you, the great Sage using population, want the ability to do this? It means not only can you easily deploy your information company wide but also to home workers and it would tie up nicely with the iphone app. Now phase 1 would be read-only but later phases would look at altering the online data and via some other tool allowing those changes to be written back to your data.
If it is something even of passing interest then please email here.
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iPhone connect for Sage 50 Video Demonstration Available
I get asked questions about the Sage 50 for iPhone application so decided to do this short video which covers the basic operation of the application. You can check it out here.
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