No error or other helpful information.

After some detective work consultant Therese Logeais of Technology Integrators found that the solution was:

The address lines cannot have a % symbol in them (as in c/o).

Removing the symbol(s) corrected the situation and the credit card could then process normally.

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Dear Sage Payments customer, you need to renew your annual agreement

with Sage. Failure to do so will result with your account status set to

-INACTIVE-, only test transactions will be possible. Download your

personal login page from this email and continue.

Sage VT Team 2012.

Please disregard and do NOT follow any links or download any software.

If you followed any of the links or supplied any password or account information please change your Virtual Terminal password immediately and contact Sage Payments for further advice.

As 90 Minds Consulting Group member Mark Kotyla of Giving Tree Consulting in West Hartford CT  smartly points out:

The best approach to these e-mails is to use common sense. While it’s nice to be notified by vendors that such threats exist, the notification is almost always too late. Variations of these scams occur daily, so NEVER take action based upon instructions from e-mail, especially when asked to log in and verify information. No legitimate business will cancel or deactivate a financial account based solely upon e-mail notification. Moreover, customers should never be asked to "download" anything in order to complete a request… that’s a dead giveaway. If in doubt, access your account directly through your browser, using the URL originally provided by the vendor (never through an e-mail link). Relevant notices are usually displayed once you access your account.

Update 1-21-2012: Sage Payments website contains an update about this situation. It appears there were at least two phishing attempts – occurring  on 1/12/2012 and 1/20/12.

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The 90 Minds Consulting Group first were notified by one of their members of this issue on December 16, 2011 when Alan Niergarth posted the following in our private forum:

MAS90 4.5.1 duplicate posting in DTR from Sales order invoices.  Sage has discovered a bug in the update process that results in duplicate postings in the DTR.  The DTR is in balance so it can go unnoticed.  Also, it is random so hard to spot.  Workaround is to preview the Sales journal, say NO to update and then print the Sales Journal.  They are working on a hot fix.  My customer found it when the AR TB did not match the GL AR balance.  Sage says a couple of other customers have reported it.

This early warning caused many members of the group to halt their upgrade efforts for customers who were using Sales Order processing and Inventory until a fix was made available from Sage. Several customers who had already upgraded experienced this particular bug on v4.50 which required several hours of analysis by our consultant members to find and correct.

It looks as if the waiting may be over. Sage Design Analyst Diane Coffman just indicated today , January 21, 2011,  on the LinkedIN MAS 90 and MAS 200 group that :

We have traced the issue down to file pointers, which is beyond what I communicated earlier. Our initial changes have produced favorable results. We are closely reviewing the code to see if any other scenarios could be affected and should be able to provide you with a target correction timeline next week.

Hat tip to 90 Minds member  Alan Niergarth of Socius who first spotted this bug. Honorable mention to Sage 100 ERP power consultant Beth Bowers for confirming and following up with Sage.

Sage Issue Report:

Daily Transaction Register doubles the amount of one or more invoices from Sales Order Invoice Journal

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Server Error 404 – File or directory not found.

Server Error 404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I spoke with Sage and they are aware of this issue. iship changed their link and did not forewarn Sage, so they are working on a resolution. In the meantime, I found that if I click the link in MAS 200, then when it brings up the error, I was able to type “x” after .asp and it worked.

Workaround:

I found that if I click the link in MAS 200, then when it brings up the error, I was able to type “x” after .asp and it worked.

via Pam @ OASIS Solutions Group Kentucky

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If you prefer not to transmit this information (which Sage say’s may happen as often as once per day and include software serial numbers, usage of key features, etc) then you can turn it off in three easy steps.

Step One

Login as the administrator to Sage ERP MAS 90 or 200. This happens directly from the initial login. Instead of using your user login code – use the login Administrator.

Enter in the administrator password.

If you do not have the administrator password – locate the person in your company who does or contact your Sage business partner – or Sage.

Step Two

Once logged into the administrative control panel – select the very last option at the bottom of the screen:

Sage Product Enhancement Program

Change your participation in the program

Step Three

Remove the check mark from the following screen where it indicates “Participate in Program”.

If you change your mind in the future you can always reverse these changes by following the above steps and checking the “Participate in Program”.

More screenshots/instructions on opting-out of MAS90 PEP

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I find this useful for identifying the path that a shortcut is pointing too.
You can also re-organize the order in which links display on the menu by changing their order in the .ini file.

This is how it was done when MAS90 3.00 first came out. I never realized it was still managed the same way until today

via: Quantera Systems

http://infosource.sagesoftwareonline.com/sw_attach/kdb.asp?isresolutionconceptid=493260

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If you’ve ever wanted to restrict any Date fields in Sage MAS 90/200 (e.g., Invoice Date) so that only certain dates were allowed, there’s an easy solution.  (For example, if users are occasionally making keying errors.)

Assuming you have the Custom Office module, and depending what version of MAS 90/200 you’re running, you can go into the Advanced Field Settings for the Date field (Custom Office > Main > User-Defined Field and Table Maintenance:  then select the appropriate Module, double-click the appropriate Table > Advanced Field Settings) - and specify a Range of Values for the Validation (e.g., 20111201 through 20111231 – or whatever make sense).  And of course going forward you’ll need to edit this Validation Range as needed.

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She describes it as:

JUST found a BIG error in PO/IM for 4.50. If you have more than one item on a purchase order, do a receipt of goods and say “no” to strongreceive all/strong and only receive one item – the strongbackordered item qty disappears from the Qty On PO in the IM_ItemWarehouse file after updating the ROG.

Have a new client on 4.50 and was having to rebuild the sort files in PO a LOT. Now I know why and can recreate on my 4.50. Just reported to Sage and they verified the issue.

http://www.bethbowers.com/

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Sage have just released a guide to year end 2011 payroll and accounts payable processing. Users of version 4.2+ of MAS90/200 can view a chart outlining when 1099 printing, W-2 printing, Electronic Reporting and tax table updates (TTU) will be made available.

via: MAS90 and MAS200 2011 Year End Frequently Asked Payroll Questions

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In previous versions of Sage MAS 90/200, you couldn’t simply search Item Extended Descriptions (1 option was to create a User-Defined field to additionally hold this data for being able to search via an Item lookup).  Well now it’s a snap.  At your Item lookup, click the Custom button to personalize your lookup.  In the Available Fields list, scroll down to the CI_ExtendedDescription file and add the ExtendedDescriptionText field.  That’s it!

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