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Sage 50
Sage 50 (US Peachtree and Canadian Simply Accounting) conversions, editions, and downgrades. 36 guides and 425 answers on this topic.
Sage 50 message: "The date of this transaction is no longer in the last calendar year
Sage 50 is refusing the entry because its date falls in a year the company file no longer treats as open, usually after a year-end close.
AnswerSage 50Sage 50: "The income period cannot cross over fiscal year ends
Sage 50 is rejecting a date range that starts in one fiscal year and ends in another; split the entry or report at the year end.
AnswerSage 50Sage 50: "The program cannot find the form or report file you wish to open.
Sage 50 cannot locate the template file behind the form or report you tried to open; your accounting data is usually not the problem.
AnswerSage 50Sage 50: "Use a new filename or close the file in use by another program
Sage 50 is blocked because the file it wants to write to is already open or locked by another program, so it asks for a new name or a released lock.
AnswerSage 50Account Reconciliation cannot be performed on Group Heading accounts
Sage 50 blocks reconciliation on accounts that are structural or linked, because they do not hold their own clearable transactions.
AnswerSage 50Administrator(s) will be locked out for 5 minutes only" Sage 50 message
Sage 50 temporarily blocks the admin account after repeated failed login attempts; the lockout clears on its own after five minutes.
AnswerSage 50Allow duplicate values" cannot be disabled — duplicate Part Numbers
Sage 50 is blocking you from turning off duplicate part numbers because items sharing a vendor already have identical part numbers.
AnswerSage 50An Accounts Receivable account is required to create invoices" — Sage 50
Sage 50 cannot post invoices because no general ledger account is linked to Accounts Receivable, or the linked account is damaged.
AnswerConversionAn object on a custom form could not be converted" during Sage 50 conversion
Sage 50 could not carry over a layout element on a custom invoice, check, or form during a conversion or migration.
AnswerSage 50An unexpected error occurred while either loading or converting your company data
Sage 50 hit a problem it could not describe while opening or upgrading your company file, usually pointing to data corruption or a version mismatch.
AnswerConversionCan I convert a Sage 50 file set up for multiple companies?
Yes. Each Sage company converts into its own separate QuickBooks company file -- there is no single-file multi-company conversion.
AnswerSage 50Can not delete this order as an invoice has been applied to this order
Sage 50 is blocking deletion of a sales order because an invoice is linked to it and must be dealt with first.