Sage 300 is the name for the mid-market line of enterprise management and accounting applications (formerly Sage ACCPAC), primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses. Since 2004, Sage 300 is developed by

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. In 2012, Sage renamed ACCPAC to Sage 300.

Features

Sage 300 is a

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based range of

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, running on Microsoft SQL. This can run under a Windows environment and has an option of being hosted by Sage. Sage 300 is a modular system with the following core suite of modules. The full list of modules developed in the Sage 300

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is also available.

Financials suite

* General ledger * Bank services * Tax services * Accounts payable * Accounts receivable * Multi-company

Operations suite

* Inventory control * Purchase orders * (Sales) Order Entry

Payroll

* US and Canadian payroll

Core options

* Multi-currency * Project and job costing * Transaction analysis and optional fields It is multi-user, multi-currency, and multi-language. It is available in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

History

The original product, EasyBusiness Systems, was developed for the

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operating system in 1976 by Don Thompson, Ted Comfoltey, Keith Wales, and Norm Francis of Basic Software Group and distributed by Information Unlimited Software. This was ported to MS-DOS and the IBM-PC in 1983.

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acquired Information Unlimited Software in 1983 and ran it as an independent business unit. Easy Business Systems added payroll processing in 1984 and supported multiuser networking at this time. In 1987, it implemented a multi-window interface to allow moving between different modules. Easy Business Systems was renamed Accpac Plus in 1987 with the release of version 5. Accpac became popular in Canada with support of Canadian public accounting firms that would sell and support the software. The name Accpac is an acronym for 'A Complete and Comprehensive Program for Accounting Control'. Accpac for Windows v3

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with Computer Associates development tools (these components were redeveloped in 2001 in Accpac Advantage Series with a core business layer developed in C and a user interface layer developed in

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). In October 1996 ACCPAC for Windows 2.0 was released. In August 2001, the company presented ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.0, its first web-based version. The web interface was rebuilt in Sage 300 2016 for cross browser support, running on IIS with ASP.Net, a web

was added in the 2017. Sage 300 Web

Sage 300 initially ran on Btrieve Databases and then supported a variety of database backends. Since Sage 300 2016 only the MS SQL database is supported. Sage Software acquired Accpac from Computer Associates in 2004. Sage renamed it Sage Accpac ERP in 2006, then Sage ERP Accpac in 2009. Sage dropped the Accpac name in 2012 when it was renamed to Sage 300 ERP. Sage 300 is no longer available for purchase in the UK, but is still available in other markets around the world.

Branding, editions and versions

References

External links

The Sage 300 ERP Web Site
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