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.
 

Orchid Sales Tip

Why not use Orchid's own Sales Presentation pack?

We're constantly updating and fine tuning the PowerPoint pack we use for presenting overviews of Orchid products to audiences around the world. Now we've decided to also make this sales pack available to business partners.

Next time you're pitching any of Orchid's Sage 300 add-ons to your prospects, why not use the pack we use?




The pack is available in both 4:3 and 16:9 (widescreen) formats. Ensure you are using the latest version by downloading it from Resources area of our website, under Marketing Material. (Login required to view sales material.)
 

Inter Entity Transactions has rapidly become one of our most popular products, and it's not hard to see why. Accountancy staff regularly report they are saving days of effort each month as the deadline for balancing and closing off the books approaches.

Working within one or across multiple Sage 300 databases, Inter Entity Transactions automatically creates balancing entries for organisations that need to allocate expenses or revenue, balance loan accounts, or process cash between related entities. (An entity equates to a GL segment, and could be a company, department, branch, fund, project etc.)

To find out more, watch the overview video below, read Robert Lavery's love letter to Inter Entity, and look at the Inter Entity Transactions product page

Inter Entity Transactions Overview
Watch Robert Lavery provide an Overview of Orchid Inter Entity Transactions

Orchid Case Study


Club Mykonos resort were running 361 units, 10 sets of books, and multiple Sage 300 databases. Much of the month was spent collating and reconciling transactions between entities, then having to enter them in duplicate or  triplicate.
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Read our Case Study to find out how their Sage business partner, Affinian ICT Solutions, radically streamlined their operations, with Orchid Inter Entity forming a key part of the solution.
 

Tips and Tricks


Here are just a few of our KnowledgeBase articles (login required) related to Inter Entity:
 

Product News

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v2018 - it's a wrap!

The v2018 versions of all Orchid products have now been released, and are available for download from our site.
v2018 Activation Codes, and a note about Sage 300c Premium
Activation Codes for all clients who were current as at 30 September have been sent to the nominated contact for all business partners, who can then forward to them to their consultants. If you believe you are the nominated contact but haven't received yours, please contact us.

All our v2018 codes were generated for the edition the client was running on prior versions, according to our records. While there is no price difference, clients who have have upgraded to Sage 300c Premium for v2018 will need a new serial number and Activation Code from Orchid. Please contact us as soon as you can if you need new codes, so as to avoid delays in future upgrades. When requesting v2018 codes for clients who used to be on Advanced or Standard, please let us know which edition they are now running.
Notes - new option to display a note every time a screen opens
 

You can now configure an Information Manager Note to be displayed every time you open a given Sage 300 screen, independent of the field values on that screen. This is useful if, for example, you want to provide instructions about how to use a particular screen. See our KnowledgeBase article for more (login required).

 

Support Roundup

Orchid Support FAQs

The following KnowledgeBase articles (login required) answer some of our most commonly asked support questions from recent weeks: Our Video Library continues to grow
We continue to publish product overview, demo and training videos (including recordings of recent Webinars) to the Resources area of our website, and also to YouTube. By subscribing to our YouTube channel you can be among the first to know when we upload something new.
 

Orchid Events Plus

On the Road:
  • Anne and Steve have just returned from the Sage Sessions roadshow in South East Asia, where they met many of our business partners and end users in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
  • We'll recharge our batteries before heading off again late February for TPAC 2018 in Vancouver, where we'll also be holding pre & post-TPAC training sessions. Visit our Events page to find out more or register.

Online Training:
We've scheduled the following webinars for our partners. Visit our Events page to find out more, register, or see what else we might have planned.
  • 6-December: Inter Entity Transactions
  • 13-December: Process Automation using Orchid products (Process Scheduler, Extender, Report Runner)
Interested in the online training, but the dates or times don't suit you? Register anyway - we'll video the session, post it on YouTube, and email you a link.
 

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They are all available on our website, just go to the News page and look for the Newsletters tab.
 

Ideas welcome!

We’d love to hear from you if you have any suggestions for blogs, technical articles, webinars etc. Don’t be shy, just contact us.