Sage have just announced the new accounting integration feature for Act 2010 is now available to download for existing customers, you can go to sage.co.uk and log in to your account if you would like to download it immediately.  It will also begin shipping today, although there may be a backlog so you could have to wait a few days for delivery.

In order to enable the new Accounting Integration, you will also need to download and install the Sage 50 Integration update for Sage 50 Accounts  (once installed you will then need to enable the new Sdata framework in Sage 50 Accounts by going into Tools> Internet Options> SData Settings and checking the Sage 50 Accounts box).

Note: ACT! Premium for Web does not contain the new Accounting Integration functionality. The DVD you receive is labelled as 12.20 but contains the software version 12.0.

To use ACT! Premium for Web in the same environment as ACT! Premium 2010.20, you must apply the ACT! Premium for Web 2010 Service Pack 1 update, available from the Sage website

There has been another slight delay to the release of Sage 200 2010, however the software should now be available from 30th June 2010. Sage have made the following statement:

Sage 200 2010 has been in use in a live environment with our five hand-held customers sites since April, the sites have provided great feedback and the product has been very warmly received. We’ve invested a lot of development time in Sage 200 2010 and our commitment to delivering stable and reliable software is paramount in ensuring delivery of high quality products for our customers and Business Partners.

In the final rounds of testing we identified some issues which have now been corrected, however correcting these issues has required R&D to create a further final build of the 2010 software. As a new build has been created, R&D must now restart full regression testing which takes a number of days.

Therefore, to accommodate the additional final testing, we have taken the decision to revise the launch date to Wednesday 30^th June.

This allows us further time to work with our hand-held site customers, and also allows us to further extend our in-house testing using our stringent testing processes.”