Sage 100 + Magento Integration with E-Link

Sage 100 is a form of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software designed for small-to-midsized businesses. It automates manual tasks, streamlines operations, and reduces costs. Sage 100’s functionality includes:

1. Financial Management – Sage 100 incorporates basic and advanced accounting functionality, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Reconciliation, Fixed Asset Management, and more.
2. Distribution and Manufacturing – It includes modules for order inventory management, order fulfillment, production management, and shipping and logistics.
3. Customer Relationship Management – Sage 100 combines all your operational, financial, and customer information in one place for better business management.

Sage 100 is known for its flexibility, scalability, and its advanced customization options. Sage 100 for Magento 2 eCommerce stores involves integrating your Sage 100 and Magento 2 webstore.

Yes, Magento Adobe Commerce can integrate with Sage 100 ERP system. At present, neither Sage nor Adobe offer a direct integration between these two platforms. That means creating a Magento Sage 100 integration requires using a third-party tool or app like E-Link.

Integrating Sage 100 with Magento Adobe Commerce improves the customer experience and makes it easier for your customers to place online orders. It also provides numerous other benefits, including:

• Seamless data synchronization between your core business platforms
• Improve efficiency
• Reduce manual tasks
• Automate sales order processing
• Better inventory management
• Better data accuracy

Integrating Magento 2 with Sage ERP provides automated data synchronization and increases visibility into real-time data across your business. It automates online order processing and accelerates the order fulfillment process, which provides a better experience for your customers.

Our E-Link tool is middleware that sits between Sage 100 and Magento Adobe Commerce. It forms a seamless bidirectional sync between Magento 2 and Sage. Data flows between your core business systems along data connection points such as products, pricing, inventory, and more. It reduces errors from manual data entry and helps companies save time and money.

E-Link includes an API that runs on top of the Sage server and communicates directly with Sage. We replace modules in both Sage and Magento to provide better functionality. This means that when people place an order online, E-Link creates the order as if they were tabbing through all the fields in Sage. This is also what makes E-Link so flexible and customizable. When you go with E-Link, you can set up your Sage eCommerce integration with any connection points you need.

A Sage 100 eCommerce integration with Magento offers several differentiating features over Sage eCommerce integrations with other platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce.

1. Distribution and Manufacturing -Sage 100’s inventory control module includes multi-location inventory tracking. Our Magento Sage 100 integration allows you to track inventory in real time across multiple locations and distribution channels. The production planning and scheduling modules optimize production processes, reduce lead times, and improving product quality. 
2. Payroll and Time Tracking – Sage 100’s payroll, time, and labor tracking features automate key processes and minimize errors. They improve regulatory and legal compliance, automatically calculate payroll deductions, and help businesses better manage project costs and identify cost overruns.
3. Advanced Insights and Reporting – A complete suite of reporting tools provides you with better real-time insights into your business and sales. This allows you to identify spot trends more quickly, reduce costs, and make better business decisions.
4. Customization and Integrations – Sage 100 is highly flexible and customizable, allowing you to tailor your software to meet the needs of your business and your customers. You’ll be able to add new custom fields, screens, and reports and easily restrict access to your critical business data with different user permission levels.

Setting up a Sage Magento 2 integration usually requires working with an independent software vendor (ISV) or third-party provider like CertiPro. This provider will set up your integration for you.

At CertiPro, we can handle as many parts of your Sage 100 eCommerce integration as you need. We’ve worked with many Sage resellers and web developers to set up integrations for our shared clients. We’ve also worked with companies where we serve as both the Sage reseller and handle the eCommerce integration, or where we build brand-new websites from scratch and integrate them with our clients’ existing Sage environments.

The main challenges in setting up a Sage 100 Magento 2 integration include:

• Having an outdated Sage environment
• Having an outdated Magento website
• Not choosing an integration that serves your needs
• Picking the wrong integration partner

Creating a seamless, bidirectional sync usually requires having updated versions of both Sage and Magento Adobe Commerce. Like many software platforms, both Sage and Adobe regularly release updates, patches, and new versions. Keeping your system up to date improves security and offers better functionality. It also provides the best experience for your customers.

There are multiple different Sage eCommerce integrations available on the market. While many of these Sage integration tools offer similar functionality, some offer different types of syncing, feature different data connections points, or offer different levels of customization. Some also include transaction limits or may include fees for higher order volumes. It’s important to make sure that you’ve selected the tool that works best for you, as well as the right integration partner that is responsive to your company’s needs.

Ensuring that you follow the best practices for a Sage 100 Magento 2 integration involves several steps. 

1. Choosing the right integration method. It’s important to make sure that you’ve selected the right integration that serves the needs of your business and will fuel future growth. Factors to consider include whether it offers bi-directional syncing, the available data connection points, customizability, and any potential transaction fees or limits.
2. Maintaining data consistency. Many businesses have inconsistent, duplicate, or inaccurate in their legacy systems. It’s important to clean your data before enabling any data syncing between your core business platforms. Different systems may also store your data in different formats, which could cause problems once your systems integrate with one another. You should ensure that both systems handle data the same way and establish an authoritative source for specific kinds of data. As an example, Sage 100 might be your primary source for product and inventory data, while Magento 2 is your primary source for customer information and new orders.
3. Optimizaing inventory management. Your API-based integration between Sage 100 and Magento 2 should include real-time inventory tracking and updates on inventory changes. This will allow you to avoid oversells and resulting delivery delays, improve inventory forecasting, and help you optimize stocking and inventory levels.
4. Ensuring a secure data transfer. Data security is a growing concern for both businesses and consumers. Software vendors and developers continually roll out updates, security patches, and other fixes. It’s important to ensure that both your Sage and Magento 2 platforms remain secure. This includes working with knowledgeable partners that can help keep your systems up to date, setting up staging environments to test updates before pushing them to production, and staying informed about product updates.

E-Link is compatible with Magento Open Source versions 2.4 and 2.3. It is also compatible with both the cloud and on-prem versions of Adobe Commerce 2.4 and 2.3.

E-Link creates B2C-like ordering online ordering experiences for B2B companies. It extends all your business logic in Sage into your eCommerce environment, including information about customer-specific pricing and inventory.

Here’s how it works. When customers visit the eCommerce site, their visits are recorded and processed into a format compatible with both Magento and Sage 100. If a sale occurs, a customer profile and a sales order are automatically created, accessible in both systems. Visitor activity is monitored to develop detailed user profiles, enabling personalized displays, marketing messages, recommendations, and content suggestions. Aggregated data provides insight into overall customer behavior.