Should I upgrade to Sage 100 Advanced ERP 2014 before my support contract ends? (currently on 2013)

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Hello All,
My support contract ends 1/29/2015.  I don't plan on renewing it unless I really need an important upgrade at some point.
Should I upgrade my Sage to 2014 before the end of the month?
Are there major benefits to upgrading to 2014?

Thanks for any suggestions or tips.

Mike

ps We are a small warehouse ecommerce business with 3 licenses and we primarily use Sage for Inventory Management.

current installation..
Sage 100 Advanced ERP 2013 (Version 5.00.4.0)

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    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.

  • 0 in reply to BigLouie

    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?

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  • 0 in reply to magriggs

    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.

  • 0 in reply to BShockley

    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!