Personally I would recommend staying on maintenance. I like 2015 which is coming out this year. To answer your question, there is not a whole lot more to 2014 so you should be o.k but I have to ask, if you have the basic 3 user license why do you have Advanced instead of Standard? You could have saved a lot there unless you need the client/server ability.

thanks for the response!

i guess i saw some discussion about the Sage Data Cloud which i was hoping i might be able to take advantage of but maybe not at this time.

regarding standard...

We went with advanced so that we could upgrade to more licenses in future when we migrate our crm and order management to Sage.  So this would add another 3-4 licenses.  

Also, we wanted a robust system and felt like the standard adhoc option was limiting to us.  We are a frugal company and usually go for the cheaper option but in this case we felt the Advanced client/server setup was worth the extra dollars for us at the time.

At this time I can't really justify spending the money for maintenance.  We didn't really use any of the technical support and I think I upgraded once.  I should probably at least upgrade again before our contract ends.

Why would you recommend staying on maintenance?

In 2-3 years, when your MAS version is no longer supported on current operating systems, you'll be in a world of hurt if you're not able to upgrade your MAS to a supported O/S.

When you need to replace old servers and workstations, your MAS version may or may not run on the new operating systems.

If you use the payroll or accounts payable modules, you will not have access to year-end form updates for W2s and 1099s.

I recently worked with a MAS client that didn't pay their maintenance for a few years.  By the time they factored in the penalties for lapsed maintenance fees, this client's best alternative was to repurchase MAS at full price.  Their server crashed (old 2003 server), and version 4.3 was not supported on Windows 2008 or 2012 servers.

k, i didn't realize that there was a penalty if maint. was not used and then picked up again. I'll get with my software provider on the details.  Thanks!