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Freedom of Choice Helps Control Total Cost of Ownership

Sage 300’ is a mid-range accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution that is easy to use.

We believe your business management solution should support your business strategy—not hinder it or force you to buy what you don't need. That's why Sage 300 ERP offers you the flexibility to build the best possible solution for your business by giving you the freedom to select the edition (Sage 300 Standard, Advanced, or Premium ERP), database, modules, deployment method, and payment options that keep your total cost of ownership as low as possible.

Accounting and Financials

Slash the time and cost of complex accounting and financial processes and redirect those resources toward growing your business. Sage 300 ERP Accounting and Financial Management integrate your sales and service functions for streamlined, end-to-end financial management.

Powerful, flexible tools improve financial reporting and compliance and provide better business intelligence for a greater ROI. Make confident financial decisions based on solid, comprehensive data.

Banking

Economic Policy

Financial Sector Management

Quantitative Finance

Project Management/ Project and Job Costing (PJC)

Count on Sage 300 ERP Project and Job Costing Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage ERP Accpac) Project and Job Costing delivers efficient management of estimating, tracking, costing, and billing of projects—simplifying cost control and planning so you deliver on time and on budget, every time.

Human Resource Management (HRM)

Optimize human resource management Sage 300c enables you to decisively meet and respond to HR management challenges. With integrated payroll, benefits, recruiting, employee self-service, and analytics, Sage 300c helps you to maximize every dollar you invest in employees. We call this the Return on Employee Investment.

Manufacturing

Take full control of your production floor with the Manufacturing Order (M/F) module. Supervisors can now create manufacturing orders (MO) and track it on the production floor. Material movement in terms of component issuances or returns and product receipts are reflected in Sage 300 ERP Inventory Control (I/C) in real-time. MO Backflushing and Just-in-Time (JIT) processing are supported. With the Production Planning (P/P) module, planners can ensure stock availability and at the same time minimize inventory levels in I/C using full MPS and MRP planning logic. Lot/ serial tracking can be fully supported and shop floor control options are also available.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sage CRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solution for businesses seeking a low-cost, low-risk option. With seamless integration to Sage 300 ERP, Sage CRM lets you view critical customer data from the back office, providing your staff with a complete view of customer interactions. By integrating your sales, marketing, and customer service functions, Sage CRM makes it easier for everyone inside your company to work together and share critical information. Sales, marketing, and customer service teams gain the tools they need to find new customers, close sales more quickly, and build lasting, more profitable relationships.

Services Management

Streamlining your control over service operations, Sage 300 Construction and RealEstate (formerly Sage Timberline Office) Service Management software integrates with other applications for better communication between customers and your organization's dispatchers, technicians, and accounting staff.

Ready access to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Job Cost, Payroll, Inventory,Purchasing, and General Ledger information enables you to track and streamline your response to service needs

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)

Sage 300 ERP helps you slash the time and cost associated with complex processes and redirect those resources toward growing your business. Whether you choose the Sage 300 Standard, Advanced, or Premium ERP Edition, you can select from any of the Sage 300 ERP applications to create a custom-fit solution to support your end-to-end business management requirements.

Online

Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) Online is award-winning business management software that allows your entire organization to work more productively, find more customers and keep them happier, and compete in today’s global economy. Sage 300 ERP provides small and midsized businesses around the world with the tools to streamline business processes, comply with the myriad of regulations, and ensure the business is performing optimally. Sage 300 ERP Online provides an on-demand (cloud computing) version that gives you all the power and functionality of our suite of on-premises accounting, operations, sales, marketing, and customer service solutions with the added flexibility, convenience, and affordability of a hosted application.

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Editions

Sage 300 ERP Standard (Accpac) Our entry-level offering for a growing business that requires strong and secure financial and operations management. Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) Standard handles up to three GL account segments, stores up to seven years of history and can accommodate up to ten concurrent users. Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) Standard easily manages data for up to five different companies.

Sage 300 ERP Advanced (Accpac) This edition builds on the solid financial and operations management capabilities of Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) Standard, but we've added advance credit claim and user-defined account group capabilities as well as support for up to four GL segments. Sage ERP Accpac Advanced can accommodate up to twenty concurrent users and there is no restriction on the number of companies that can be managed.

Sage 300 ERP Premium (Accpac) This edition provides the mid-market customer with big business aspirations all the tools for success. Sage 300 ERP (Accpac) Premium offers advanced inventory, purchasing and order management with up to ten GL account segments, unlimited account structures, 99 years of financial history and the ability to manage an unlimited number of concurrent users and companies.

System requirements

Database server operating systems

Microsoft SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016 or 2017 on Windows Server 2012 R2 2016 or 2019 are supported for use as the database server for Sage 300 2020.

Note the following points:

Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise, Standard, and Express Editions are supported.

For Microsoft SQL databases, we recommend using a binary collation method, such as Latin1_general_bin.

Sage 300 2020 and higher only supports Microsoft SQL Server as a database server.

See Microsoft’s websites for limitations of their databases.

Sage 300 application server operating systems

Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 or 2019 are supported as the application server for Sage 300 2020.

Note the following points:

Sage supports only the 64-bit version of any application server operating system.

Terminal Server and Citrix XenApp are supported only for Sage 300 Classic (Visual Basic) programs, not for web screens.

Hardware requirements

Recommended configurations

	Advanced	Premium
Number of users	5–10	10+
Modules	Financials & Operations Modules	Financials & Operations Modules
Database engine	Microsoft SQL Standard	Microsoft SQL Standard
Database size	5–10 GB	10 GB+
Operating system	Windows Server Standard with Terminal Services	Windows Server Standard/Enterprise with Citrix
Reporting	Moderate	Intensive

•Financials Modules include System Manager, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable.

• Operations Modules include Inventory Control, Order Entry, and Purchase Orders.

• For SQL Express, check CPU and RAM limitations.

Hardware requirements

Recommended hardware specifications

	Advanced	Premium
Number of users	5–10	10+
Workstation	Intel Core i3 or higher 4GB RAM 100MB for workstation files Windows 7, 10	Intel Core i3 or higher 4GB RAM 100MB for workstation files Windows 7, 10
Sage 300 server	Intel quad-core processor or higher 16GB RAM 5GB for application files	2x Intel quad-core processors or higher 32GB RAM 5GB for application files
Database Server	2.6 GHz dual-core processor 16GB RAM Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 (x64) SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016 or 2017 1TB free hard disk space RAID 1 for operating system RAID 5/10 for SQL data files RAID 1 for SQL log files	3.00 GHz dual-core processor 32GB RAM Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 (x64) SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016 or 2017 1.5TB free hard disk space RAID 1 for operating system RAID 10 for SQL data files RAID 1 for SQL log files
Citrix Terminal Server		2x Intel quad-core processor or higher "Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 Standard with Terminal Services (x64)" "32GB RAM capable of supporting 40 concurrent user sessions"
Reporting	Moderate	Intensive

Hardware notes

•Additional applications require more resources. Recommendations are based on a standalone server with little to no additional network traffic. Running additional applications on the same server will require additional resources.

•Add RAID to protect data. Adding RAID to your storage configurations is one of the most cost-effective ways to maintain both data protection and access.
For the database and file servers, we recommend using RAID 10 (minimum RAID 5). For the application and web servers, we recommend using RAID 1.

•Plan for different user types. It is important to keep in mind what type of user will be working with the system. For example, 100 users working in Operations modules will use the system more intensively than 100 users working in Financial modules. The guidelines in this document are intended for users of Operations modules on a non-customized system, with little to no additional processing or network traffic.

•Plan for backup and recovery. Each site must have adequate backup and recovery capabilities. We strongly recommend that you set up a “hot standby” system with a backup database. This standby system should have a similar configuration to the primary production system. The standby system can also be used for development and testing.

•Plan for disk space requirements. The amount of required disk space varies widely, depending on the number of customer records, archiving plans, and backup policies. Required disk space can also vary depending on the amount of information held for each customer. Therefore, it is important to estimate disk space requirements prior to installation, and to purchase sufficient disk storage to allow for significant growth in the volume of data.

•Protect against power outages and surges. We recommend that you use an uninterruptible power supply.

•Understand the effect of product customizations. Note that product customizations can significantly affect the performance of Sage 300, and should be evaluated carefully when specifying hardware.