Updating Paygroups in Sage 100 Contractor

Join us for a webinar on Thursday, May 1st, 2025 at 11:00 AM CST.

Each year (and sometimes more than once a year), unions publish new rate and benefit sheets with specific start dates. There is a very methodical process in Sage 100 Contractor that allows you to get all the reports you need for the old rates, get the new rates updated in one place, then update the employee default hourly rate, and make sure the next reports are right for the union – without over paying for a few days of overlap!

AND, we’ll review how Job Paygroups work. You can actually indicate which Paygroups are to be used on a specific job. This could save you a lot of time!

Join Catherine Wendt for a 45-minute review of this process, including tips and tricks. Registration is required – seats are limited.

If you have payroll with union employees or you use paygroups for prevailing wage jobs through Sage 100 Contractor, you need this webinar!

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Free for Syscon clients and a $45 fee for guests. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

How to Prepare for 1099’s at Yearend

Join us Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 at 11:30 AM CST.

Every year we get questions about 1099’s: Who should receive them? How do I get a list? How do I know if I have the Federal Tax ID numbers? What forms to I need? And More!! There is a deadline to have these in the mail to your vendors, and a deadline to file the 1096 (summary page) with copies, so it’s important to plan ahead.

We’re not your CPA and we recommend you check with them. However, we do this each year and have quite a few things we can share so you can be ready. In this webinar, we will cover:

– The general guidelines regarding who should receive a 1099

– How the W-9 form plays into this

– The Sage 100 Contractor 1099 Types and where these are flagged

– How to pull a report to see the Vendor payments, who may need a 1099, and what information might be missing

– The general deadlines to send the 1099’s to the vendors, and to file the 1096 and Federal/State copies

– The latest info we have regarding what can be printed to plain paper, perforated paper, and what needs the ‘red’ forms

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We’ll have a little time for Q&A at the end. Attendance is free for Syscon clients and $40 for our guests. We look forward to having you join us for this 30-minute webinar on Wednesday January 8^th at 11:30 am Central time!

Closing the Year- We’ll review ALL the steps!

Join us for a webinar on Thursday December 5th, 2024 at 11:00 AM CST

Our Goal: Close the Payroll and prepare for the Year End in Sage 100 Contractor

We will review closing the year in Sage 100 Contractor, including Payroll. Join us as we walk through all the steps so you’re ready for the first checks in January 2025. Sage had made some changes to the payroll process in version 24.2, so you’ll want to get up-to-speed and know what to expect BEFORE you close the payroll (and we have a recommendation!). You won’t want to miss this webinar!

We will cover:
• What to request from your CPA before the end of the year for owner-related payroll entries
• How to figure out exactly what version of S100C you’re running
• Exactly when you can close the 2024 payroll
• The information you’ll need to have ready for the 2025 payroll rate changes, which ones Sage provides and which ones you need to update
• The best way to push new payroll rates and/or maximums out to all your employees, quickly
• How and where in the software to close the payroll for Sage 100 Contractor, what the new Payroll Archive feature is all about, and who/when will it be used
• What you need to buy for the 2024 payroll reports, W-2’s, and 1099s
• Options to file those mandatory electronic reports with the states
• When and how the 2025 posting periods become available
• What to do when 2024 AP arrives in mid or late January
• How to lock things up when you send the numbers to the CPA
• Various tips and tricks for a successful close and a great start to the new year

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Attendance is free for Syscon clients and $40 for our guests. This is one of our most popular webinars. We look forward to having you join us on Thursday, December 5th at 11:00 am Central time!

Credit Card Processing – We Have an Option to Share

Join us for a webinar on Thursday, October 24th, 2024 at 11:00 AM CST.

How would you like this: a team member uses the company credit card, then they immediately get a text asking them to send the receipt with a description, just by responding to the text message! Sound too good? You might want to join us on for our co-hosted webinar with David Stewart. Co-Founder @ Vendrix.

Vendrix is a corporate credit card built for the Construction industry, and they now have a full integration with Sage 100 Contractor! Not only does this cut out the need to manually track expenses, it makes it easy for them to send what you need right away, ready with your GL accounts, jobs, cost codes, vendors, and more.

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Sooo many of our clients are looking for ways to cut down on the amount of time and aggravation of credit card processing. This could be the magic sauce. We look forward to having you join us for this 45-minute webinar on Thursday October 24^th at 11:00 am Central time!

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AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Your Business – Ready or Not

Join us Thursday September 12^th at 11:00 am Central time.

Ready or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here. AI isn’t new, but with the release of Copilot in February 2024, it is now accessible to everyone in a very practical way. For years, AI has been part of our programmers’ lives, saving tons of time. For the rest of us, Machine Learning (ML) and AI are part of many of the tools we’ve learned to rely on in our businesses and personal life.

Maybe you plan to ignore it – you won’t be able to. Maybe you want to re-tool everything and use it everywhere – not realistic and not appropriate. Let’s have a practical discussion about AI and our businesses. Here are a few highlights of what we’ll cover:

• Let’s discuss how AI works (briefly!)
• What AI is good for, and what it’s NOT good for
• We’ll review a variety of areas you can use AI in right now and pick up some big wins, with ease!
• What do we see as the next iteration of AI

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BIM – What it is and How it’s being used

Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 11:00 AM CST.

If you’re in Construction, you’ve probably heard people talking about BIM as much as AI, so let’s start with our first question: What does BIM stand for? Building Information Modeling. I’ll bet you have a few more questions and we’d like to get you some answers!

We’ve joined with Santex, our long-time partner, to share an introduction to BIM, how it’s being used in the Construction industry, where it’s being used, and how we see this growing in the coming months and years. This webinar, followed by Q&A, will be Tuesday, August 6th at 11:00 am Central time.

Here’s what we’ll cover:
– An introduction to BIM: Understand the core concepts and benefits
– Benefits and Advantages: Learn how BIM is being used in the collaboration phase, to reduce risk, and to optimize project management
– BIM Tools and Technologies: We’ll share some popular BIM software and some emerging transformations in the industry, as well
– Real-World Case Studies: Santex is ready to share some success stories along with some lessons learned during their BIM Implementations worldwide
– Future Trends: We’ll share some of the trends Santex is seeing, including digital twins and sustainability

Who should attend? Owners, Engineers, Contractors, Project Managers, Architects, and anyone involved with the Construction industry! Whether you’re new to BIM or looking to hear more about how it’s being used, we have something to share with you!

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