Moving this post to the Sage 100 (formerly MAS 90) Support Group.

Thanks,
Derek

Sage 100 is the new name for MAS90. So you don't have to upgrade provided you are still on a maintenance plan with Sage.

More fully, the new names for MAS90:

Old / New:
MAS 90 / Sage 100 Standard
MAS 200 / Sage 100 Advanced
MAS 200 SQL / Sage 100 Premium

Sage also have another option which they recently introduced - Sage 100c. Right now the primary observable difference is that 100c uses a more modern launcher. Under the hood all the programming is the same. In the future Sage have indicated that Sage 100c will be the product that they keep updated with the latest features. Periodically Sage has run promotions for migrating from 100 to 100c. Their most recent promotion just ended 9/30 so I'd be on the lookout to see what new promotion might be available next quarter.

Whether you need to hire a consultant or not depends a lot on your plan for implementation and how familiar your people are with Sage 100 (MAS 90). The manufacturing modules can be a little more intensive to setup. You might want to check and see who your company uses as a consulting firm for their Sage 100 (MAS90) questions and then talk to those folks about the cost and whether it's advisable to get some outside help.

With respect to eCommerce I definitely advise you consult the experts at Website Pipeline who do these types of web integrations all day long - www.websitepipeline.com/


I once had an end user setup the eCommerce themselves and for the first few months it worked ok then as they expanded and wanted to add more features the work took on a life of its own and they had created these workarounds for just about everything and by the end it became clear that having some professional help at the start would have saved them significant $$ .

There is a lot you can do with Sage 100 and a lot that can be integrated. I think you'll save some time working with your consultant but in the end that decision is yours.

Wayne pretty much covered it. Please not that you do not need the Bar Code module if you want to use barcodes on items and scanners. It is basically just a basic import tool.