Sage 300

Sage 300 is the name for the mid-market line of enterprise management and accounting applications (formerly Sage ACCPAC), primarily serving small and medium-sized businesses. Since 2004, Sage 300 is developed by Sage.^[3] In 2012, Sage renamed ACCPAC to Sage 300.^[4]

Sage 300

Sage 300 Logo
Sage 300 web desktop
Developer(s)	Sage Group
Initial release	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Stable release	Sage 300 2024.1 / 30 November 2023; 11 months ago (2023-11-30) [1]
Written in	C and C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	5 languages
List of languages English, French (Canadian), Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)[2]
Type	ERP
Website	www.sage.com/en-us/products/sage-300/

Features

Sage 300 is a Windows based range of ERP software, running on Microsoft SQL. This can run under a Windows environment^[5] and has an option of being hosted by Sage. Sage 300 is a modular system with the following core suite of modules. The full list of modules developed in the Sage 300 API is also available.

Financials suite

• General ledger
• Bank services
• Tax services
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Multi-company

Operations suite

• Inventory control^[6]
• Purchase orders
• (Sales) Order Entry

Payroll

• US and Canadian payroll^[7]

Core options

• Multi-currency
• Project and job costing
• Transaction analysis and optional fields

It is multi-user, multi-currency, and multi-language. It is available in six languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

History

Accpac Plus screenshot

The original product, EasyBusiness Systems, was developed for the CP/M operating system^[8] in 1976 by Don Thompson, Ted Comfoltey, Keith Wales, and Norm Francis of Basic Software Group^[9] and distributed by Information Unlimited Software. This was ported to MS-DOS and the IBM-PC in 1983.^[9][10]

Computer Associates acquired Information Unlimited Software in 1983^[11][12][13] and ran it as an independent business unit.^[14][15] Easy Business Systems added payroll processing in 1984 and supported multiuser networking at this time.^[16] In 1987, it implemented a multi-window interface to allow moving between different modules.^[14] Easy Business Systems was renamed Accpac Plus in 1987 with the release of version 5.^[17] Accpac became popular in Canada with support of Canadian public accounting firms that would sell and support the software.^[15] The name Accpac is an acronym for 'A Complete and Comprehensive Program for Accounting Control'.^[18]

Accpac for Windows v3 desktop

The first Windows version, CA-Accpac/2000, popularly known as ACCPAC for Windows, was developed in the early 1990s and released in October 1994.^[19][20] The Windows version marked the move to client/server and was developed with all new code in COBOL with Computer Associates development tools (these components were redeveloped in 2001 in Accpac Advantage Series with a core business layer developed in C and a user interface layer developed in Visual Basic).^[21][22]

In October 1996 ACCPAC for Windows 2.0 was released.^[23] In August 2001, the company presented ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.0, its first web-based version.^[24] The web interface was rebuilt in Sage 300 2016 for cross browser support, running on IIS with ASP.Net,^[25] a web API was added in the 2017.^[26][27]

Sage 300 web desktop

Sage 300 initially ran on Btrieve Databases^[28] and then supported a variety of database backends.^[29] Since Sage 300 2016 only the MS SQL database is supported.^[28]

Sage Software acquired Accpac from Computer Associates in 2004.^[30] Sage renamed it Sage Accpac ERP in 2006,^[31] then Sage ERP Accpac in 2009. Sage dropped the Accpac name in 2012 when it was renamed to Sage 300 ERP.^[32]

Branding, editions and versions

Branding	Edition	Internal Version	Owner	Year	Databases
Sage 300 2024	Standard/Advanced/Premium	7.1	Sage Group	2023	MS SQL[33]
Sage 300 2023	Standard/Advanced/Premium	7.0	Sage Group	2022	MS SQL[34]
Sage 300 2022	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.9	Sage Group	2021	MS SQL[35]
Sage 300 2021	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.8	Sage Group	2020	MS SQL[36]
Sage 300 2020	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.7	Sage Group	2019	MS SQL[37]
Sage 300 2019	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.6	Sage Group	2018	MS SQL[38]
Sage 300 2018	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.5	Sage Group	2017	MS SQL[39]
Sage 300 2017	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.4	Sage Group	2016	MS SQL[40]
Sage 300 2016	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.3	Sage Group	2015	MS SQL[41]
Sage 300 2014	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.2[42]	Sage Group	2013	Pervasive PSQL, MS SQL, Oracle [43]
Sage 300 ERP 2012	Standard/Advanced/Premium	6.1[42]	Sage Group	2012	Pervasive PSQL, MS SQL, Oracle [44]
Sage ERP Accpac 6.0	100/200/500	6.0[42]	Sage Group	2010	Pervasive PSQL, MS SQL, Oracle [45]
Sage Accpac ERP 5.6	100/200/500	5.6[42]	Sage Group	2009	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL, Oracle [46]
Sage Accpac ERP 5.5	100/200/500	5.5[42]	Sage Group	2008	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle [47]
Sage Accpac ERP 5.4	100/200/500	5.4	Sage Group	2006	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle [48]
Sage Accpac ERP 5.3	100/200/500	5.3[49]	Sage Group	2004	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle [50]
Accpac Advantage Series 5.3	Small Business/Corporate/Enterprise	5.3[49]	Accpac International	2004[51]
Accpac Advantage Series 5.2	Small Business/Corporate/Enterprise	5.2[52]	Accpac International	2003[53]
Accpac Advantage Series 5.1	Small Business/Corporate/Enterprise	5.1[54]	Accpac International
Accpac Advantage Series 5.0	Small Business/Corporate/Enterprise	5.0[55]	Accpac International	2001
Accpac Corporate Series 4.2	Discovery/Small Business/Corporate/Director/Executive	4.2[56]	Accpac International	2000	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL[57]
Accpac Corporate Series 4.1	Discovery/Small Business/Corporate/Director/Executive	4.1[58]	Accpac International	1999	Pervasive.SQL, MS SQL [59]
Accpac Corporate Series 4.0	Discovery/Small Business/Corporate/Director/Executive	4.0[60]	Accpac International		Btrieve 6.15 Workstation Engine / Pervasive.SQL 7.0
Accpac for Windows 3.0	Discovery/Small Business/Corporate/Director/Executive	3.0[61]	Accpac International
Accpac for Windows 2.0	Plus	2.0	Accpac International	1996[23]	Btrieve (16 and 32 Bit)[62]
CA-Accpac/2000		1.0	Computer associates	1994[19]	Btrieve 6.15 [63]

See also

• Comparison of accounting software
• Sage Group

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External links

• The Sage 300 ERP Web Site