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Argh – my Sage has Errors – what shall I do?

There is nothing quite like that sinking feeling you get when you run a Sage Data check and find there are Errors in your Sage Data.  We go months with no one having any problems at all – then have some months wher...

Sage 50 Add-On – Adept Sage 50 Code Changer

This is another post to highlight Sage Add-On products which have proved particularly popular with Silicon Bullet’s clients.  To see the other useful add ons available then take a look at the add on category on our...

Sage 50 Add-On – Adept Payment Allocation

This is the third in my series of blog posts highlighting add-on products which tackle regularly requested extra functionality to improve your Sage 50 experience. To see the other useful add ons available then take a loo...

Sage 50 Accounts 2014 – New Features

The current version of Sage 50 Accounts is version 20 or 2014 as it is otherwise known With this version Sage are focusing on making it much smoother and easier to process your VAT, as this is something which stresses ou...

Sage Backups and Dropbox

I quite often need to send and receive Sage backup files as part of my job.  I used to be able to easily send them via email but as Sage gets more sophisticated the backup files have got bigger and not all email systems ...

Who should use a CRM?

CRM means customer relationship management, but what does this really mean and who in your company should use the software? CRM software, such as Act! by Swiftpage (formerly by Sage), keeps track of all your interactions...

Sage 50 2014 – Service Pack 1 Update

Sage have released a new update which will take your Sage 50 2014 software to version 20.4.9.364.  This is called Sage Accounts 2014 Service Pack 1. To learn about what in included in Service Pack 1 then take a look at t...

Uptime and SLA

Do you ever see 99.9% or the “five nines” – “99.999%”bandied about?  Its usually in relation to uptime – how much uptime or conversely downtime your service is up or down for. Pretty i...

DNS – website and email hosting.

DNS is one of the key parts of what makes the internet world go round. Think of it of a big address book of website servers, mail servers and similar. Without a working DNS, a lot of the internet would simply stop workin...

Bank Reconciliation – Is it really necessary?

So you have heard people talk about the bank reconciliation but have no idea why you should be doing it, or even what it is. You enter all your transactions in Sage (or your other bookkeeping software or manual books) so...