Orchid Partner News

 
Learn how add-on modules from Orchid Systems can help you tailor Sage 300 to affordably meet your clients' requirements, and how Solution Providers can expand their consulting opportunities by partnering with Orchid.
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Orchid Sales Tip

Let your Raving Fans do the marketing for you!

Any 'out of the box' ERP solution will have limitations. 3rd party add-ons can play a major role in customizing a site to meet business-specific requirements. This in turn can help take the quality and consistency of service delivery to a new level, a pre-requisite for turning satisfied but unenthusiastic customers into Raving Fans. 




Our "Keep the Customer Satisfied" article talks about what drives customer experience, why and how to create Raving Fans, and gives some tips about implementing an NPS feedback regime.
 
 

Return Material Authorizations & Repair Tracking was the very first Orchid add-on module when initially released way back in 1999, and has continued to evolve. The name is a bit of a mouthful, so we usually just refer to it as RMA. 

RMA streamlines the processing of product returns and repairs, and provides a single point of reference for them within Sage 300. It supports improvements in both productivity and customer satisfaction thanks to its flexible workflows, automated generation of cross-referenced inventory and financial entries, and analysis tools.

To find out more, watch the overview video below, and look at the RMA & RT product page.  

Return Material Authorizations and Repair Tracking for Sage 300 Overview
Watch Robert Lavery provide an Overview of Orchid RMA & RT

Orchid Case Study


With their products in over 25,000 retail outlets, Budge Industries, "the original car cover company", needed to find a more efficient way of managing returns. 

Their Sage business partner, MSI Technologies, recommended Orchid RMA. The result? More control, reduced handling costs, and happier customers. Seems they have everything covered!

Tips and Tricks


You may find these KnowledgeBase articles useful:
 

Product News

EFT for Payroll is here!
 

With the release of EFT v2018 PU1, users of Sage 300 US & Canadian Payroll, and their employees, can finally benefit from the features that have made Orchid EFT Processing such a success.

Inter Entity Trade - New Features
 

You can now create AP Payments from AR Receipts, and define a Source Application Ledger for target documents created by Inter Entity Trade. We've also improved matching rules for creating applied Receipts, to support bi-directional processing between AP Payments and AR Receipts. See our KnowledgeBase article for more info, and examples.

Visual Process Flows - Whoops!
 

Last month we told you we'd added some new Visual Process Flows to assist with the setup and configuration of Inter Entity Transactions and Information Manager. We later discovered there was a problem with the link to our KnowledgeBase article.  We've fixed it now - sorry about that! 

 

Support Roundup

v2018 Sample Data & Demo Scripts

We've created Demo Script "cheat sheets" for most Orchid modules showing, step by step, how to run an effective product demo using our v2018 Sample Data. Read this KnowledgeBase article for more info on where to find the scripts, and how to use them.
 

Orchid Support FAQs

This section features KnowledgeBase articles on issues that have been topical in recent weeks:
 

Orchid Events Plus

TPAC Pre & Post conference training 
Don't miss out on the following Orchid sessions in VancouverVisit our Events page for more info.
  • Saturday 24-Feb: Sales Training - How to position, demo & sell Orchid products
  • Friday 02-MarTechnical Training - Extender v2018
Register by contacting Robert Lavery & Associates: robert.lavery@sympatico.ca 
Upcoming Webinars: .
  • 31-January: Return Material Authorizations & Repair Tracking (RMA & RT)
  • 7-February: Enhancing Security with Orchid products 

Visit our Events page to find out more or register. Interested, but can't make it? Register anyway - we'll video the session and email you a link.

 
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