Sage 300 2024 Release Notes

What's new in Product Update 5

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in Product Update 5.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300 web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

Accounts Payable

We have updated the T5018 (CPRS) forms for Tax Year 2024.

Program fixes

This product update also includes program fixes. See the list of fixed issues in Technical Information for more information.

What's new in Product Update 4

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in Product Update 4.

This product update includes program fixes. See the list of fixed issues in Technical Information.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300cloud web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

eInvoicing 71A PU1

eInvoicing for sending documents from Sage 300 Accounts Receivable, Order Entry and Accounts Payable (for self-billed transactions) to the Malaysian Government is now available.

You can now also retrieve documents from the Malaysian Government and import them to Sage 300 Accounts Payable.

This requires separate installation as well as Sage 300 2024 PU4 or higher.

For more information, please see the User Guide and Online Help.

What's new in Product Update 3

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in Product Update 3.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300cloud web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

This product update supports eInvoicing and HR Integration.

eInvoicing

eInvoicing for sending invoices, credit notes and debit notes to the Malaysian Government is now available.

It requires separate installation as well as Sage 300 2024 PU2 or higher.

For more information, please see the User Guide and Online Help.

HR Integration

In addition to installing and activating 2024.3 Product Update, you will need to install and activate Sage HR Integration v8.0.

In a Workstation Setup environment, you will need to register each workstation by performing wssetup.cmd.

Refer to Sage 300 Online Help for more information.

To begin:

1. If applicable, uninstall the existing workstation setup.

2. Install the workstation setup (wssetup.exe) that comes with the product update.

3. Run the wssetup.cmd

Program fixes

This product update also includes program fixes. See the list of fixed issues in Technical Information for more information.

What's new in Product Update 2

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in Product Update 2.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300cloud web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

System Manager

• Subclassing is now supported in both the Sage 300 Web Screens and Web API.
• Translation Package is now included with the Sage 300 Desktop SDK.

Program fixes

This product update also includes program fixes. See the list of fixed issues in Technical Information for more information.

What's new in Product Update 1

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in Product Update 1.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300cloud web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

Accounts Payable

• Five new fields have been added for 1099 purposes: First Name, Last Name, FATCA, Second TIN Notice, and Tax Withholding State. These fields also appear in Inquiry Reporting.
• Sage 300 now supports Form 1099-Div in the AP 1099 Filing screen.

Sage Support Resource Centre

You can now access the Sage Support Resource from Sage 300 menus.

Sage 300cloud web screens improvements

This release includes the following new web screens for Project and Job Costing:

• PJC Budget Maintenance. Use the PJC Budget Maintenance screen to forecast revenues and costs over several fiscal periods, so that you can budget your contracts effectively.

What's new in Sage 300 2024

This section contains a summary of new features and changes in the 2024 release.

General improvements

This release includes the following new features and improvements in both Sage 300cloud web screens and Sage 300 classic screens:

Sage 300cloud web screens improvements

This release includes the option to install Sage 300cloud web screens: modernized versions of Sage 300 screens that you can use in a web browser.

Web screens run in parallel with Sage 300 desktop screens, so there's no need to choose between desktop or web. Everyone in your organization can use the interface that best suits their needs, while working seamlessly with a single shared set of company data.

Here's a quick overview of what's new in Sage 300cloud web screens:

• New Project and Job Costing web screens. This release includes the following new web screens for Project and Job Costing:
  • Equipment Usage. Use the PJC Equipment Usage screen to record the use of equipment that you own.
  • Adjustments. Use the PJC Adjustments screen to adjust or transfer timecard, equipment usage, material usage, material return, cost, or charge transactions that you have posted in Project and Job Costing.
  • Timecards. Use the PJC Timecards screen to enter timecards for employees, which is how you charge job-related labor costs to projects.
  • Transaction History. Use the PJC Transaction History screen to view details for transactions posted in Project and Job Costing and job-related transactions posted in other Sage 300 programs.
  • Transaction History Report. The report provides a printed listing of transactions that appear on the Transaction History screen, with the advantage that you can print the report for a selected range of contracts, projects, categories, cost classes, customers, contract status, and project status.
• Enter job-related documents in Purchase Order. You can now enter and work with job-related documents on all P/O web screens:
  • Transactions
    • Requisition Entry
    • Purchase Order Entry
    • Receipt Entry
    • Invoice Entry
    • Return Entry
    • Credit/Debit Note Entry
    • Copy Purchase Orders
  • PO Analytical Reports
    • Transaction List - added Job Related checkbox
    • Purchase Order Action Report - added Job Related checkbox
    • Purchase History Report - added Job Related checkbox
    • Posting Journals – added Job Related checkbox
  • PO Statistics and Inquiries
    • PO Purchase History – added job columns in the Purchase History Detail
    • PO Pending Receipts Inquiry – added job columns in the PO Pending Receipts Details screen
  • PO Create Purchase Orders - Create Pos from Requisitions – added Job Related checkbox
  • Setup – Optional Fields – added Job Related settings

Financial Report for the Web

Sage 300 Financial Reporter for the Web is a web-based tool used to manipulate, format, graph and print general ledger (GL) data. Financial Reporter for the Web utilizes Microsoft Excel to create financial statements and statement specifications that display data from Sage 300 General Ledger.

Compliance – IRAS ASR Tier 2 (Singapore Tax Report Direct Submission)

Available on Sage 300 web screen only, this feature is an enhancement from existing Tax Singapore (TS) module. It is specifically designed to report GST Taxes for form 5 and form 8 (F5 and F8) digitally via IRAS (Government) server website.

Direct API Bank Feeds

Access to Direct API bank feeds as added by Sage Service Fabric. Example. Bank of America CashPro bank feed.

Additional Web APIs

The additional web APIs include CP employee, UP employee and IC Item location details.

Global Search

The Global Search feature is available in the 2024.0 release. This feature was not available in product updates 2023.2 or 2023.3.