Accounting Software Shreveport

What is Avatax 1099?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Tue, Dec 06, 2011 @ 10:48 AM

Introducing AvaTax 1099

SAAS-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara recently released Avatax 1099 to automate the annual hassle of 1099 reporting.
Avalara's flagship product Avatax works with your MAS 90 and MAS 200 system to reduce audit risk with cloud-based sales tax services that make it simple to calculate rates, manage exemption certificates, file forms, and remit sales tax payments to sales tax jurisdiction authorities.  Avalara's recently introduced Avatax 1099 to reduce the risk of IRS audit.
If you answer yes to either question below please read on to learn more...
  • Do you have to deal with 1099 reporting?
  • Do you want to automate this onerous task and decrease your risk of IRS audit!
If your business deals with the annual hassle of 1099 reporting, you probably have a mountain of 1099 forms to print, mail and electronically file. If this process is manually managed, the risk of IRS audit increases due to inaccurate and incomplete data. AvaTax 1099 formats are guaranteed compliant, reducing the risk of IRS audit. Every step in the highly automated due diligence process is transparent. You import your data and the system validates TIN (Taxpayer Information Number) information. Once validated, with the click of a mouse, the 1099 forms are printed and mailed without any further manual intervention from your accounting team.  Can it get any easier?


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Tags: Sage Software, MAS 90 and MAS 200, Avalara, Avatax

Can you Measure Marketing Return on your Sage Software Investment?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Fri, Nov 18, 2011 @ 03:48 PM
HubSpot Certified Professional
Marketing used to be easier...but now outbound marketing (cold calling) isn't so easy, especially to accounting software prospects.  Inbound Marketing isn't easy either but we have found that in today's marketplace people want to perform an online search and find what they are looking for on demand, immediately.  We have subscribed to the HubSpot Website Content Management System (CMS) technology because we feel it is an important component to engage with our customers. Our goal in writing this blog is to inform our current and future Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 customers of this technology.  We want our customers to take advantage of HubSpot's Content Management System because it measures the effectiveness of web advertising, email campaigns and search engine optimization.  HubSpot integrates with your Sage CRM system to offer closed loop reporting.  At Accounting Systems Consulting Group our skilled consultants are trained to integrate this data into our ERP offerings for a complete solution to show customers how to measure the ROI that they seek from their customer relationship management and ERP systems.
 
One of our first key initiatives as a HubSpot user was to research the popularity of Sage Software's third party enhancements.  It was interesting to learn how often the most popular Sage third party enhancements are searched in the major search engines each month.  Please see below for more information about the top ten Sage MAS 90 and 200 enhancements we researched using HubSpot.
Please take our interactive YouTube Quiz below to learn exactly how many times the first six enhancements are searched according to HubSpot.

Tags: Sage payment solutions, BizNet Software, Scanforce, Scanco, KnowledgeSync, Avalara, TrueCommerce, eRequester, Budget Maestro

Are you a Sage MAS 90 or 200 user looking to accept credit cards?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 @ 02:37 PM

Sage Payment SolutionsToday’s  electronic payment options allow business to accept and disburse funds as needed without mailing checks and depositing funds at the bank.  Why is this important to a business?  Because vendors and customers want flexibility in payment methods and they expect the same from their vendors and customers.  Being able to accept credit cards with Sage Payment Solutions speeds up the process of being paid by customers so product can be shipped earlier or the service can be rendered sooner. 

Sage Payment Solutions has the added benefit of being in the Sage software family of businesses and integrates directly into many of Sage’s Enterprise Resource Planning software such as Mas 90 and 200.  However, a customer of Sage Payment Solutions is not required to use a Sage ERP package.

With Sage Virtual Terminal, merchants can directly interact and process transactions.  This secure website is the merchant’s gateway to processing and reporting credit and/or debit card transactions.  In addition, Sage Payment Solutions has the added functionality of converting paper checks into ACH deposits into your bank account.  With Sage Payment Solutions armed with these options, a business is flexible and accommodating to how a customer wishes to make payment.    

Tags: Sage payment solutions, MAS 90 and MAS 200, Sage virtual terminal, Sage ACH Prociessing Sage Check Processing Sage Mo

Thinking About Implementing a Sage ERP MAS Barcode Solution?

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Mon, Aug 22, 2011 @ 05:15 PM

There are a couple options when it comes to barcode Scanning and automation of your warehouse processes in Sage ERP MAS 90 and Sage ERP MAS 200.  Last week we co-hosted a webcast with Scanco, a preferred Sage Software barcode solution vendor, entitled "Save Time and Money by Improving Warehouse Efficiency".  According to Scott Yoder of Scanco there are five common "pain points" a barcode scanning solution like Scanco can alleviate:

  1. Long Count TimesBarcode Scanner
  2. Overstaffing
  3. Inaccuracies
  4. Delays
  5. Errors

Please watch our 7 minute summary presentation to learn more!

 

Tags: MAS 90 and MAS 200, Shreveport, Warehouse Efficiency, Bar Code Solution

Join us for "Save Time and Money by Improving Warehouse Efficiency"

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 @ 12:21 PM
 
Please join us for: "Save Time and Money by Improving Warehouse Efficiency"
  • Are you in the wholesale distribution business?
  • Do you want to eliminate duplicate data entry?Bar Code Warehouse Scan
  • Do you want to eliminate errors in the data collection process?
  • Do you want to improve customer satisfaction through quicker response times?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above please join us for our complimentary 60 minute webcast, Thursday, August 18 at 10 AM CT.

Time and Attendance Register

During this webcast we will review each step of inventory movement, we will discuss:
  • When most inventory mistakes are made
  • When most inventory mistakes are made
  • What common mistakes are most expensive
  • What processes take too long

Tags: MAS 90 and MAS 200, Inventory Accuracy, Shreveport, Warehouse Efficiency

Automate your Sales Tax Compliance Save Time and Money

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Mon, Jun 06, 2011 @ 10:24 PM

Many companies are learning the hard way that their manual sales tax management process puts them at greater risk for negative audits. With the average penalty costing $34K per audit, can your company afford to continue losing money on manual error-prone sales tax compliance? Eliminate your risk by automating your entire sales tax process with a solution that seamlessly integrates with your Sage ERP application. 

Join us for an informational webinar where we'll discuss sales tax compliance best practices and show you real life examples of success. During this webcast you will discover just how Avalara's solutions can save your company time and money!

 

 

  • Achieve full end-to-end sales tax compliance
  • Automate manual processes involved with managing tax tables and updates
  • Eliminate compliance holes associated with using a flat state rate or zip code-based systems
  • Reduce your audit exposure through ‘bullet-proof’ compliance
  • Outsource all of your sales tax filing requirements
  • Automate the paperless collection and management of certificates
Attend this webinar to learn more about the AvaTax family of products: Sage Sales Tax, powered by AvaTax, as well as AvaTax Certs and AvaTax Returns for Sage.

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Tags: Sales Tax Calculation, Sales Tax Audit, Sales Tax

Join us for "Save 5 to 35 Hours a Week Calculating Time & Attendance"

Posted by Adrian Montgomery on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 @ 11:28 AM

Simple manual employee actions, like time recording, that may only take one employee a moment, can create enormous costs if performed thousands of times a year by every employee in the workforce. Automating the most frequent employee actions yields the greatest cost savings and efficiency improvements.

In this webinar you will learn not only why you should be using time and attendance software to automate the collection process, you will also receive tools to calculate your return on investment.

During this webinar you will learn:

  • How to capture real-time labor information
  • How to reduce errors associated with manual time collection
  • How to reduce buddy punching w/Biometics

 

Watch recorded May 2011 presentation now:

Web-Based to Empower Your Workforce

Employees and supervisors are empowered within your workflow with the 100% browser-based intuitive interface. Eliminate burdensome manual processes by offering manager and employee self-service for:

Employee Self-Service Manager Self-Service
  • Time-off requests
  • Time-entry, review and sign-off
  • Labor allocation
  • Scheduling
  • Expenses and mileage
  • Review timecard history
  • Monitor attendance
  • Manage exceptions
  • Prevent overtime
  • Streamline approvals workflow
  • Real-time Status Monitor
  • Web and email alerting

Data Collection for All Employee Populations

Employees spread across the site, or across the country can enter their time with the data collection option appropriate to their needs. Insperity Time and Attendance data collection devices are supported in both real-time and batch-process modes and encompass badge-based timeclocks, biometric timeclocks, mobile devices, telephony, web punching and much more.

Labor Insight and Reporting

Your workforce data is only as valuable as your insight into it! In addition to real-time alerting, the TimeStar Enterprise™ Time & Attendance Software package delivers a broad range of built-in administrative and business intelligence reports based on the industry-standard Crystal Reports® reporting engine including:

  • Time and labor
  • Attendance and performance
  • HR and organizational
  • Leave accruals
  • Trend analysis
  • Payroll
  • Cost center
  • Audit
  • Scheduling
  • Supervisor and administrative reports

Optimized For Your Environment

The Insperity Time and Attendance' advantage over our competitors lies in our ability to respond to each client’s unique needs and our corporate-wide "culture of consultation." All Insperity Time and Attendance implementations follow a highly-consultative and comfortable process centered on the dependable and efficient Insperity Time and Attendance P3 Methodology.

Tags: ABRA, automated time and attendance, automated timekeeping, Time and Attendance, Manual Timekeeping, Workforce Management Solutions