The Sage MAS 500 Office module helps you use the power of automation to build stronger, more lasting customer relationships through enhanced communications. It is a key component of Sage MAS 500, a highly reliable, robust and integrated series of business applications that delivers a flexible, scalable and full-featured e-business management solution.
With Sage MAS 500, you can use predefined, customizable templates to help you automatically (or manually) generate business communications that incorporate application data.You can save time while boosting productivity as you create a wide range of highly customized documents, including business letters, e-mails or spreadsheets, without ever leaving Sage MAS 500.
Any authorized user in your organization can quickly and easily create a new template or one-time document without any programming knowledge. Simply open an existing Sage MAS 500 template, make any necessary modifications, and save the new template.
Through Sage MAS 500, you can leverage familiar productivity tools to gain new efficiencies in business communications and customer service. For example, press a toolbar button on the Customer Maintenance screen in Accounts Receivable, and Office will launch Microsoft Word and populate a customized dunning letter with Sage MAS 500 data, including customer name, address and aging information — all without you having to type a word! You can also use Sage MAS 500 spreadsheets as budget analysis tools to pipe business data from Sage MAS 500 tasks into Microsoft Excel, modify as desired, then update the data directly in Sage MAS 500.
FEATURES:Create New Templates
Create a wide choice of templates for your letters, e-mails and spreadsheets.
Create templates using a process as simple as pasting data fields from a screen into your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or e-mail messages.
Make templates available to all companies or a specific company.
Data Objects
Use data objects to establish a link between Sage MAS 500 data and a Sage MAS 500 template.
View all data fields for the current task in the data objects dialog box.
Add fields to an existing template or any new templates you create, and Sage MAS 500 Office will automatically populate the template with the appropriate Sage MAS 500 data.
Generate Templates
Easily select existing templates for customized communications.
Activate Office from the current Sage MAS 500 task to display a list of templates.
Automatically generate the template with all appropriate information.
Sage MAS 500 Office Functions
Facilitate the launch of frequently performed operations from the Sage MAS 500 Office toolbar:
General Templates — to view or modify an existing document prior to printing.
Print Template.
Send Mail Note.
Create New Templates.
Add New Attachments.
Display Data Objects — to paste Sage MAS 500 fields into a new or existing template.
Budget and Journal Editing
Import Sage MAS 500 budgeting or journal information into Excel, modify the amounts as desired, then bring the revised information directly back into the application.
Launch a budget spreadsheet from Maintain Budgets in the General Ledger module, then make changes to the budget in Excel.
Discard your changes or load them to the appropriate General Ledger task.
Save changes in a new spreadsheet if you prefer.
Validate data prior to updating the general ledger.
Launch a journal spreadsheet from Process Journals in the General Ledger module, then make changes to the journal in Excel.
Easy Online Access to Documents
Leverage the Sage MAS 500 electronic file cabinet to attach a variety of files directly to Sage MAS 500 records.
Attach any OLE-compliant file, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, scanned images, photos, drawings, notes, voice, and multimedia files, to any Sage MAS 500 masterfile or transaction record.
Attach any file or Internet address (URL) to a Sage MAS 500 entity, such as a customer, vendor, salesperson or account.
Insert attachments at the transaction or masterfile level.
Add an attachment, and Sage MAS 500 Office displays the attachment in a folder specific to the entity.
View the document or file at any time.
Associate, or attach, a scanned image of a signed contract to a vendor record, or an image of an invoice to a customer record.
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