Bennett/Porter News
It’s hard to believe November is already here! The weather is changing quickly, leaves are falling, and people are debating whether or not it is too soon to start listening to Christmas music. (It’s not.)
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Acumatica News
ACUMATICA SUMMIT 2025 IS ONLY TWO MONTHS AWAY!
We are excited to inform you about the upcoming Acumatica Summit 2025, scheduled for January 26–29 at the esteemed Wynn Las Vegas. This premier event offers a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the latest advancements in business management technology.
The Summit features three days of visionary keynotes and informative sessions, providing insights into cutting-edge technologies and strategies designed to drive business growth. Attendees will have the chance to engage directly with industry experts, participate in interactive breakout sessions, and explore the most significant trends shaping the future of business management.
Networking is a cornerstone of the Summit experience. The event brings together a vibrant community of partners, customers, and technology experts, fostering an environment conducive to building meaningful connections. These interactions can lead to valuable collaborations and the exchange of best practices, enhancing your organization’s capabilities.
Early Bird registration is available at $1,495 per pass until December 6, 2024. After this date, the pass price increases to $1,795. The Summit pass includes access to keynote sessions, over 80 breakout sessions, the Summit Marketplace, customer showcases, daily hot breakfasts and lunches (Monday–Wednesday), the Opening Reception and Dinner on Sunday, the XS Celebration Party and Dinner on Tuesday, and the Closing Reception on Wednesday.
In addition to the main sessions, the Summit offers several activities to enrich your experience. These include a Hackathon starting on January 25, a Fun Run on January 28, a Women in Tech Luncheon on January 28, and the Celebration Party at XS Nightclub on January 28.
We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and network with peers in the Acumatica community. Even better, meet up with our Bennett/Porter Sales & Leadership Team! Register now to secure your spot at Acumatica Summit 2025 and we will see you there.
For more information and to register, please visit the official Summit website.
Also, reach out to us today to discover how Bennett/Porter and Acumatica will give you the tools to grow and transform your company.
Sage 100 News
Unlock Seamless Integration and Transform Your Sage 100 Workflow with IN-SYNCH®
This month, we wanted to let you know about one of our favorite Sage 100 integrations from our friends at ROI. Using ROI’s integration solution will save time, headaches, and money. Here is an introduction about what they do.
First and foremost, they are a trusted Sage Tech Partner and have been an integration partner serving our Bennett/Porter clients for years. Their solution, IN-SYNCH, is featured on the Sage Marketplace.
IN-SYNCH is an installed application for Sage 100 that enables real-time data synchronization with any third-party system. Clients can seamlessly integrate the Sage 100 platform with e-commerce sites, marketplaces, custom websites, shipping solutions, CRMs, databases, and more.
In 2023, they launched the Connector API for Sage 100, enabling developers to easily integrate their applications with Sage 100. This scalable solution provides endpoints that simplify interactions with the connector and databases, maximizing automated data exchanges without requiring deep Sage 100 knowledge. While their specialty is integrating Sage 100 with e-commerce platforms like Amazon, eBay, Shopify, and Adobe Commerce, the Connector API for Sage 100 reduces the need for manual data transfers and enhances efficiency.
Benefits of IN-SYNCH — In addition to their proven track record and extensive integration capabilities, IN-SYNCH offers several key advantages that set it apart:
- Security: Data exchanges are controlled within the Sage 100 server, using its built-in security, and don’t require outside access, ensuring top-tier data protection.
- Real-Time Data Synchronization: Their solution offers seamless, bidirectional data updates between Sage 100 ERP and third-party systems like e-commerce platforms and CRMs, keeping everything synced efficiently.
- Independent Operation: IN-SYNCH connects your systems while allowing them to operate independently. If one system goes down, the other continues running and automatically syncs once restored.
Discover How ROI Can Transform Your Business — Read about how ROI clients have boosted their efficiency and profits through their solutions. Interested in learning more? Let your contact at Bennett/Porter know or contact Kim Zertuche directly at 402-934-2223, 106 or send an email to kimz@roi-consulting.com to set up a meeting.
YEAR-END WEBINARS ARE BACK
Year End is approaching and we are offering a FREE Sage 100 webinar on Tuesday, December 17th. In this webinar, we will address processing Accounts Payable 1099 Printing and the changes in the 1099 Vendor information this year. We’ll also describe which 1099 form you should be using and do a demo of the process for printing those forms.
As always, we can process both your W-2s and 1099 Forms for you if you don’t want to process your own forms, and we simply bill you hourly to do so. The service includes sending “test prints” for you to confirm numbers before the filing is done, as well as delivering final forms to the government and a final copy to you. If you are interested in this service please contact Carina Sims in our office (carina@benpor.com) and she can send you authorization forms for us to help you with those pesky little year end forms.
People Savvy HCM News
Here come the holidays! And what do employees tend to do during the holidays? They take extra time off from work. Whether that time comes in the form of actual holiday days themselves, floating holidays, or employees just trying to use time off hours that they’ll otherwise lose, the end of the year is always a busy time for timecards. What is your company’s system for tracking days off and managing adjustments to all of those time-off banks. If you don’t have one – or if the one you do have is eating up all your time – consider the advantages of automating time off accruals and usage with an HCM system like People Savvy HCM.
Fill Timecards Automatically – You probably know what holidays your company will observe even before the new year gets going. Rather than someone having to remember to add holiday time to timecards for particular payrolls throughout the year, let your HCM system do the work. With People Savvy HCM, you create a list of holidays, and the system adds them to timecards automatically when those payrolls approach. No more corrections because a holiday was missed or mis-paid! And it’s not just holiday time. When an employee’s future time-off request is approved, that scheduled time instantly appears on the appropriate timecard in the future, so payroll errors don’t get made down the road.
Accrue Without Guessing – How much vacation time does Bill have left? Who approved this request that took Sarah over her available PTO amount? Did we roll over Jacob’s balance right, or did we give them too much sick time? Stop wondering, and start knowing the answers to these questions in seconds. People Savvy HCM manages all accruals according to your policies, whether people accrue time off by tenure, based on hours worked, or a combination of both. Then, as accrued hours are used – or transferred, or donated – the system manages all balances automatically. If employees aren’t allowed to go into a negative balance, it prevents that. If they have some eligible time to roll over, it does that. Is there a maximum running balance allowed? People Savvy HCM handles it…without you ever having to pick up a calculator.
Stay Covered – When lots of people take time off towards the end of the year, one of the greatest challenges for a business is maintaining coverage. Managers are constantly under pressure to make sure enough employees are present to keep the operation running. Without an effective tracking mechanism, one might arrive to an understaffed production plant during the entire week of Thanksgiving. People Savvy HCM prevents this problem by enforcing coverage rules at the point of request. So if no more than three employees are allowed to be out on December 24, the fourth request for that day can be automatically declined before it ever hits the manager’s to-do list. Team schedules can also show managers at a glance who has time off scheduled and who is scheduled to work at any point in the year.
So this year, give yourself the gift of effortless time-off management. Ask us how to wrap up People Savvy HCM for your business today!
Managed IT Services News
IT NEEDS DURING BUDGET PLANNING SEASON!
With budget planning season on-going for many organizations, the Bennett/Porter Managed IT Team wants to remind our clients to keep in mind the upcoming Windows 10 End of Life when plotting out their IT and technology budgets for the coming year! Many organizations will likely need to replace a large number of workstations and laptops due to the stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11, which could leave them choosing between blowing up their budget in October or leaving their company exposed to risk.
Budget planning season is also a great time to look even further out to start planning for other potential initiatives. Are you planning on moving your email to Office 365? Replacing your servers prior to Server 2016’s retirement in 2027? Changing your cloud workloads? Spreading these out can help alleviate stress and financial crunch.
Another great option to consider budgeting for is increasing your cybersecurity posture. Our team produced some great content and advice during Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, including a webinar on the current threat landscapes and misconceptions affecting SMBs. Want to avoid the growing and crippling threats of conversation hijacking and MFA-skipping phishing? Chat with us today to find out about phishing training options.
Reach out to us today to discover how Bennett/Porter’s Managed IT Services will give you the tools be prepared for whatever life has in store.
