You have probably heard that Sage has decided to phase out MAS 90 and 200 Extended Solutions. We’ve been developing and supporting MAS 90 and 200 solutions since 1990 As a Source Code Development Partner, we have full access to Extended Solutions source code.
Sage will begin to phase out Sage MAS 90 and 200 Extended Solutions, which were created to address specialized needs of unique businesses. This process includes incorporating the main features and functionality of many of the top Extended Solution titles into the core product. That additional functionality will be delivered over the next several releases and product updates.
Customers who own titles that will be retired and not incorporated into the core product, will begin to see those Extended Solution title(s) drop off their renewal notices. As of November 1, 2010, Sage will no longer support any retired Extended Solutions titles. Please make note that the 2009 year-end updates will be the last year-end updates for those titles.
Friendly Systems has the source code for the library of Extended Solutions, and is available to support and maintain these retired Extended Solutions, on a case by case basis.
Customers who own the select group of titles that contain features and functionality that will be phased into Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP over the next few releases will continue to see their title(s) on their renewal notices. Also, they’ll continue to receive support until such time as the features and functionality are incorporated into the core product. Once their title has been incorporated into the core product, they will see that title drop off their renewals.

How the ‘Use Shipping Code to Calculate Freight’ option in Sales Order Options works.

The option to ‘Use Shipping Code to Calculate Freight’ has three settings: ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Actual’.

Select ‘Yes’ to use preset the Shipping Codes set up in Shipping Rate Maintenance to calculate freight charges. A Freight Charge Table is created for each shipping code, with shipping rates determined by ship weight and, optionally, by ship zone.

Select ‘No’ to manually enter all freight charges, or if freight charges are not required.

Select ‘Actual’ to calculate freight charges using the total weight of all items ordered; this option allows you to use Ship Codes and the actual weights from the Inventory Master File (IM1). Individual shipping codes are defined in Shipping Rate Maintenance.

Note: When using Actual, and the freight amount is manually overridden in Sales Order Entry, the system will recalculate the freight amount based on the rates setup in Shipping Rate Maintenance. In other words, changes made to the freight in Sales Order Entry will be changed back when the sales order is invoiced. Additionally, any typed-in freight amount will not carry over from the order into Shipping Data Entry. When setting the option to use ‘Actual’ as the Shipping Rate, the system assumes the freight will be either entering during Shipping Data Entry, or the freight amount from StarShip will be used.

There are three ways to calculate the freight amount:

Weight – By weight using shipping codes
Product Line – On a price per quantity or weight by product line
Amount – On the invoice amount

Sage MAS 90 and 200 have this option on the Inventory Main menu. It allows you to change either Prices or Standard Costs or both.
Select a Range of item numbers.
Change costs for a vendor
Change prices for an entire product line
Change prices for a price-code

Change prices by:
percent +/- of price change
percent +/- of cost
add or subtract $$ amount to price
add or subtract $$ amount to cost

Change Standard costs by:
percent change
added $$ amount
set to average cost
set to last cost

…but the update doesn’t affect GL, so if you are changing standard cost, you would need to correct the GL. The Inventory Valuation Report should be printed before and after the change and then used to make adjustments in the General Ledger.