All products in the Sage accounting variety have the capacity to bring into and out of the accounting program, which makes integration quite practical. At the entry amount there is Sage Quick and Series 40 that have a proprietary info storage format but do offer a software program developer kit (SDK) and an ODBC driver. The mid selection Sage 2 hundred answer and the substantial-end Sage one thousand option equally make use of Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) which can facilitate the movement of facts in and out supplying you know which tables retailer which data! So the alternatives for every merchandise are;
Sage (Line) fifty
Series sixty in fact ships with a study-only ODBC driver. So you can use this driver to export data from Sage 50 into, for illustration, Excel or into a third party/bespoke application. This has accessibility to all the tables that Sage 40 employs but there is no guidance in conditions of what information is wherever, normally the table name does reflect the facts that it retailers but there is no documentation on the 'data model'.
If you need to get info into Collection fifty then you can either use one of the import routines in the product or service which are very good for static data this sort of as consumers and suppliers but a little bit restricted with transactional info, such as not becoming capable to import revenue and buy orders. Furthermore the Sage 50 SDK makes it possible for the writing of info into the database and takes care of updating the necessary platforms. The real format of the facts is not acknowledged for certain but I believe that it to be some old btrieve variety file storage method. Utilizing the ODBC driver with an SQL query tool is ok for basic queries but it shortly struggles with multi-table joins. There is a no cost tool available named Sage 50 Explorer which lets you see the info in any table.
Sage 200 (and Sage two hundred Suite which is financials in addition CRM)
Sage 200 utilizes MSSQL so it is simple to extract data. Nevertheless there are several tables and it can be struggle without the information model. Sage does develop a facts model definition document but this is only available to registered Sage developers. The table names are pretty descriptive of the info they hold so a good developer could get to what they need. Sage recommend using the Sage 200 SDK for creating data back which can make sense as it takes treatment of updating the applicable ledgers and doing the double entry postings. You can insert information directly into the platforms (unsupported by Sage and risky except if you genuinely know what you are accomplishing).
Sage Sections 500/Sage 1000
Sage Collection 500/1000 does have an API which is pretty limited for receiving data into the system. There is an old regimen referred to as tetralink which also enables basic facts import and there is a 3rd celebration device with templates which allows particular facts to be uploaded through Excel.
The data model in Sage one thousand is huge and the legacy of the data type is that it utilized to be an outdated btrieve flat file system and currently even even though it resides inside of MSSQL there is no referential integrity, major or foreign keys defined in the data. Include to that there are 1800+ furniture all 8-10 characters in length (hardly descriptive!) and no documentation.