Both of them would be worth a look for those of you who never used the built-in UPS integration because of its lack of features. Sage is recommending ShipRush or ShipGear for users who need UPS or FedEx integration. UPS INTEGRATION – The integration with UPS has been discontinued.Your current version of Crystal will continue to work, you will just have to run your reports from Crystal instead of from Sage 50. If you are using Crystal Reports, don’t panic. Since users now have access to Sage 50 Intelligence Reporting, Crystal Reports is no longer included and it has been removed from the Reports menu. CRYSTAL REPORTS – Previously, Premium and Quantum included a full copy of Crystal Reports for designing reports and a run-time version was included for viewing reports written in Crystal.This makes sense since Microsoft will be ending support for XP on April 8th. Support for Microsoft Office 2003 has been discontinued. Microsoft Office 2013 is now supported.I’d like to give a special thanks to my 2nd and 3rd grade teachers who equipped me with the skills needed to figure out the total cost of 12 monthly payments. In addition to that, even though the monthly payment option is marketed as more affordable, it is in fact more expensive.
The annual plan still gives you a perpetual license to use the software. If you cancel your subscription, your data will become view-only.
As I mentioned last month, the monthly plan is a true subscription model. Personally, I recommend staying with the annual plan.