Vendors - Multiple addresses and multiple currencies

Good day,

I use Sage 50 Premium 2018 (Canadian Edition) and it does 99% of what I need it to do for my small business.

Things it doesn't do that could benefit me (as well as other users I'm sure) are:

1) Allow multiple addresses for the same supplier(s).

  • Reason I mention this is because creating the same supplier with a location descriptor (ex: Supplier A and supplier A [Canada]) isn't always possible. As a matter of fact, in one instance of me doing just that, my supplier's bank refused to process the check I sent them
  • We are now living in a global economy and companies are growing. Many of my suppliers have multiple locations (in the same country and or other countries) and, each location wants a P/O issued to them with their address clearly indicated on the purchase order. However, payments all need to be sent to the head office.
    • Right now, when ever cutting a check, I have to manually change the payment address. To be perfectly honest, this is a pain and it's error prone

2) Have the ability to enter multiple currencies for vendors.

- I have suppliers that deal in multiple currencies (i.e.: they bill based on the country they operate in) but, payments need to be sent to the head office (ex: Supplier A is located in the U.S BUT, they have an office in Canada who sells in $CAD not $USD). Again creating the same supplier with a country descriptor isn't always an option (had the same instance when doing that where one of my supplier's bank refused to process the check).

Without me having to change for a more sophisticated (and let's be honest, MUCH more expensive) package (ex: Sage 300, Accpac, ERP, etc..) which isn't a feasible option for my "small" business., is it possible to add those features to Sage 50 Premium?

Customers can have multiple ship to addresses created. Why can't suppliers have the same (ex: general address and payables address - Main currency and alternate currency). Having these features would make Sage 50 a much more versatile software that would differentiate Sage solutions from their competitors and, if I can be so bold, get you more customers and therefor, increase Sage's revenues and market share, no?

Would greatly appreciate an answer on those 2 points

Regards,

Marc

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    Allow multiple addresses for the same supplier(s).

    There's no secret you haven't found - other than a possible partial solution of creating a Purchase Order and manually edit both the vendor pickup and your own destination ship-to address.  I don't know whether this information will store in the recurring transactions table. 

    But multiple payment addresses for national accounts...  we pay those using online banking whenever possible, even when there is no postal strike looming.

    Supplier A and supplier A [Canada]) isn't always possible. As a matter of fact, in one instance of me doing just that, my supplier's bank refused to process the check I sent them

    On that work-around, if you make the difference small, consistent, and inconspicuous  (like an extra period or extra space in the company name) then Sage will consider it as a separate company, and the bank won't reject a paper cheque for that tiny difference.

    Have the ability to enter multiple currencies for vendors.

    We use the same work-around as above.  We haven't had any trouble with Canadian suppliers clearing cheques printed with (USD) after the vendor name.

    This is a peer forum, someone with Sage or one of the Sage moderators may respond as well.