Sage Conversion Questions
Sage Conversion Questions
Short, direct answers to the questions we're asked most about Sage to QuickBooks conversions and Sage 50 Quantum downgrades.
Sage 50: "You cannot change the number or currency of an account
Sage 50 blocks edits to an account's number or currency once any transaction has touched the account; here is why, and what you can do about it.
Sage 50Sage 50: "You cannot change the number of a linked account
Sage 50 refuses to renumber the account because a module is set to post to it automatically; the link has to be moved before the number can change.
Sage 50Sage 50: "This file may be in use, or you might not have sufficient access rights
Sage 50 cannot open the company file because Windows is blocking access, usually a leftover lock or a folder permission problem, not your Sage login.
Sage 50Sage 50: "The session date cannot be set into the new fiscal year
Sage 50 is blocking the move into your new fiscal year because the Retained Earnings account it closes the year into is missing or mislinked.
Sage 50Sage 50: "The file that you have selected does not exist
Sage 50 cannot find a company file at the location you picked, usually because the file was moved, renamed, or the path is stale.
Sage 50Sage 50: "The consolidated parent company name cannot be the same
Sage 50 blocks the name because the consolidated parent must be distinct from every real company in the consolidation, including the parent itself.
Sage 50Sage 50: "Some or all of the transactions cannot be imported
Sage 50 refused some or every row in your transaction import, which usually means bad dates, unknown IDs, or unbalanced entries, not a broken program.
Sage 50Sage 50: "Consolidated companies cannot be used as the parent company.
Sage 50 is refusing because the company you picked as the parent is itself a consolidated company from an earlier consolidation.
Sage 50Sage 50: "An error occurred while reading the file that you selected.
Sage 50 found the file you picked but could not read its contents, which usually points to a wrong selection, a bad copy, or real damage.
Sage 50Sage 50 warning: "You may have created an account with an incorrect opening balance
Sage 50 is cautioning that an account's starting balance may not agree with your other records, leaving the books out of balance from day one.
Sage 50Sage 50 item "cannot be removed until time slip lookup data is cleared
Sage 50 blocks deleting an item because a time slip, or leftover time slip lookup data, still points to that item.
Sage 50Sage 50 import error: "The company does not use multi-currency
Your Sage 50 company was set up without multi-currency, so every imported transaction must be in your home currency.