Is there a way to mass add Sage Drive companies

The company has bought a new PC for a user and 46 of the companies on Sage Drive need to be added to this PC.


They're currently taking ~10 mins to add each including entering encryption key and waiting to connect so to do all 46 will take around 7/8 hours.

Is there any way at all to mass add companies or what have other people done to work around this?

  • 0

    Hi Jordan,

    Currently, that functionality is not available.

    The encryption key is set on a per company basis and subsequently may not be the same for all data sets.

    Each company has to be downloaded one at a time and there is no way around it.

    Regards

  • 0 in reply to Iain Barlow

    Hi Iain,

    I have now managed to get all companies added but there must be a better way of going about this when you are setting up a new PC. I can't be the only person to have changed PC and need all the company connections reinstated.

    Thanks, Jordan

  • 0 in reply to Jordan.Lee

    Hi Jordan,

    Typically, the average Sage Drive user doesn't have that many companies to download in one go.

    It's more so Accountants and/or Business Partners.  In those scenarios more so the data is spread across different Sage IDs with different encryption keys, making bulk downloads problematic.

    However, in a situation where the Sage ID and encryption key are the same for each company it's definitely good feedback as yes, with that amount of companies it can be time consuming to set it all up again.

    I'll pass it forward as a suggestion.

    Regards