SPRING 2018 ENHANCEMENTS STANDARD & PROFESSIONAL - WHAT'S NEW - CPIO
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Spring 2018 enhancements Standard & Professional What’s New
Sage 200cloud is part of a global Sage 200cloud Spring 2018 enhancements is due
for release in April 2018. The release is one in a
franchise which has a single vision
series of releases to launch Sage 200cloud in the UK
and strategy across fourteen countries and Ireland. Sage 200cloud includes Standard and
worldwide. The strategy has a single focus Professional. Sage 200cloud will introduce a number of
of delivering product modernisation by connected services through a regular release cadence.
harnessing the power of the desktop With that in mind Sage 200cloud has three
whilst liberating key data via connected key themes:
web and mobile services. The strategy • Connected data.
allows us to deliver on continuous • Customer experience.
improvement through a regular release • Simplicity.
cadence to ensure we are continually Sage 200cloud has been built on direct customer
adding value to the customer base. feedback with customers telling us that simplifying
their business processes is key whilst improving the
user experience to become more productive on a
daily basis is what really matters to them.
Highlights include:
• Making Tax Digital ready – HMRC enter beta in April
2018 ahead of Making Tax Digital (VAT) coming into
effect in April 2019.
• General Data Protection Regulation support. We
cannot make our products GDPR compliant, but
we are providing reports that will help customers
achieve compliance within their business.
• Hiding redundant nominal and cash book accounts
– the most frequently requested item in the Sage
200Cloud Ideas Hub.
• Automatically refreshing list – second only to hiding
accounts in popularity on the Sage 200Cloud
Ideas Hub.
A detailed list of new features and benefits per module
is provided within this guide.Features & Benefits
Feature What Explanation Benefits Location in software
Hide Redundant • Mark nominal and cash book accounts • The account selection drop • Simplify data entry by reducing number Financials,
to indicate that they cannot be selected downs filter out accounts of accounts selectable. Commercials,
Nominal And
by the user during data entry. marked as hidden. • Save time at period end spent tracking Project Accounting
Cash Book and Manufacturing
• Drop down account selection lists exclude • Hidden accounts treated as posting errors.
Accounts hidden accounts. invalid if entered directly. • Remove the need to have accounts
• Hidden accounts still available for reports • Non-existent accounts treated named “DO NOT USE” or similar
(but can be suppressed using filter). as invalid if entered directly. on reports.
• Filter account lists to suppress
hidden accounts.
Automatically • Completing a process updates the list • Processes are aware of list • Remove doubts about the success of a Financials,
associated with the process to include most relevant to them and process by visually confirming the impact Commercials,
Refresh List
the newly created/amended record or trigger a refresh when they of the process on the list presented. Project Accounting
the change of state. are completed. • Filter the list to act as a “to do” list and
• Clearly see the last time a list was see the items on the list reduce as the
refreshed and invoke a manual refresh. tasks are completed.
Convert Quote • Convert a quote to a proforma to collect • A new process is available • Save time and avoid errors involved in Commercials
payment prior to creating a sales order. to create a proforma from manually re-keying data.
To Proforma
• Track a quote to the associated an invoice. • Have Sage 200cloud reflect your desired
proforma and the resultant sales order. • New cross references have been business process.
added to link quotes, proformas • Track sales at each stage from quote
and orders. to order.Feature What Explanation Benefits Location in software
Licence warning • Every user is currently warned every day • We have changed the licence • Greater user experience. All
for 60 days before the licence expires. warning to appear from 30 days
The licence cannot be renewed until the of the licence expiring.
Business Partner invoices the customer
which is usually 30 days before the licence
expires. The licence warning is within the
top ten on the Ideas Hub and is a regular
complaint from both customers and
Business Partners.
General Data • Handle Subject Access Requests quickly • Reports showing records • Quickly and easily take actions in your Financials,
by correcting, redacting or deleting containing data for a accounting data as required by your Commercials,
Protection
personal data. named person. GDPR approach. Project Accounting
Regulation and Manufacturing
• Identify redundant customer and supplier • Reports showing customers
support records for deletion. and suppliers who have not
traded for a period of time.
Making Tax • Register an interest in participating in the • Link in the software to register • Influence the direction of MTD by taking Financials
HMRC beta scheme relating to submitting interest in the beta scheme. part in the HMRC beta scheme.
Digital ready –
VAT Returns under MTD rules. • Enable MTD VAT Return • Be reading early for the MRD deadline
HMRC beta
• Once accepted into the beta scheme, submissions. of April 2019.
submit VAT Return under the MRT rules. • Submit VAT Return under
MRD rules.Feature What Explanation Benefits Location in software
CRM: Adopt latest • Integration with Sage CRM 2018 R2 • Adopt the latest version of Sage • All the latest functionality from the latest CRM
which provides support for General Data CRM on premise. release of CRM including GDPR support.
version of CRM
Protection Regulation.
NOTE: Only
applicable to
Sage 200cloud
Professional
Defect fixing • Continued focus on fixing defects. • An Ask Sage article will be All
available upon release.
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