Sage 100 Paperless Office: The Module You Already Own
Your Sage 100 system may already hold the tool that ends the hunt for paper — invoices in one drawer, approvals in somebody's inbox, the signed order nobody can find. Yet it sits unused while the paper keeps piling up.
Paperless Office is Sage 100's way of keeping documents with the records they belong to: the invoice attached to the order, the approval attached to the transaction, the proof attached to the shipment. Instead of living in a filing cabinet, a shared drive, or somebody's email, the evidence lives where the work happens. That is the whole idea — and why leaving it switched off costs more than the paper itself.
Three Places the Paper Trail Breaks
The approval that lives in email. An order waits because the approval is sitting in one person's inbox, and that person is out, busy, or simply missed it. Nobody else can see where it stalled, so the customer, the warehouse, and the vendor all wait on a message nobody owns.
The document nobody can find at close. Month-end and year-end both demand proof: the signed order, the receiving record, the credit approval. Our year-end close post explains why sequence decides whether a close holds — and the search itself becomes the bottleneck in the busiest week of the month.
The work done twice. Paper printed, filed, copied, and re-keyed is work the system was supposed to do once. Every manual handoff is another chance for a document to go missing or a number to be mistyped — and those errors surface later, when fixing them costs far more.
What Ignoring It Costs
The paper trail never stays the same size. Each month adds another layer of invoices and approvals to cabinets and inboxes, and the team learns to work around the mess — checking email threads instead of Sage, re-printing what was already printed. The cost is not the filing cabinet. It is every hour spent hunting for a document that should have been one click away.
Find Out Whether It Is Already in Your System — Free
Our free Sage 100 Health Check looks at your setup and tells you whether Paperless Office is already available in your system and what switching it on would take for your team. Every Digit Masters consultant is a licensed U.S. CPA, so the review covers your books as well as your system, and our support plans keep the setup working once it is live. Before another month joins the pile, find out what is already sitting in your system, unused.
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