Kelvin

Hi Ben and Melanie, As you may recall I have asked several times over the past eighteen months or so and the same 'in the pipeline' response was provided. I too, now have complaints from my Sage Cloud clients as they are fed up applying endless corrections due to this shortcoming. It has to impact sales and confidence in the Sage Cloud product, so please Ben and Melanie urge your guys to get this done now - we've waited too long! Other than this and the sometimes obscure error messages, the API is excellent and deserves this long overdue finishing touch. Thanks for all your help, I hope this helps you make the case to those who can make it happen

First of all, thank you to Sage support for the assistance received via this and the previous forum. I asked a question many months ago (on the previous forum) about how to set the department and cost centre through the API. You said that this analyis functionality was in the pipeline but no ETA. So, we advised the affected organisations that this would have to be done manually as a 'correction'. We would now like to filter the /ledger_accounts API call by department and cost centre, in order to create a detailed income and expenditure analysis (ie a SoFA). I think I can guess the answer, but is this filter also not yet available? If so, this strikes me as a fundamental shortcoming of an otherwise excellent API. It's so fundamental that I am concerned that this may well be a marketing strategy that will never be reversed. Can Sage reassure the organisations that 1) it will be available at some point 2) when this functionality will be available? Thank you

First of all, thank you for the assistance received via this and the previous forum. I asked a question many months ago (on the previous forum) about how to set the department and cost centre through the API for a sale or purchase. You said that this analyis functionality was in the pipeline but no ETA. So, we advised the affected organisations thatthis would have to be done manually as a 'correction'. Cumbersome and error prone that this is, it has been done. We would now like to filter the /ledger_accounts API call by department and cost centre, in order to create a detailed income and expenditure analysis. I think I can guess the answer, but is this also not yet available? If so, this strikes me as a fundamental shortcoming of an otherwise excellent API. It's so fundamental that I am concerned that this may well be a marketing strategy that will never be reversed. Can Sage reassure the organisations that 1) it will be available at some point 2) when this functionality will be available?

Where can I get the Sage 50 Cloud SDK for the UK. Is this effectively the same as the original Sage 50 ? ie a Windows SDO DLL ? Having to ask this after we just completed a full integration with 'the real ' Sage Cloud Accounting! Can the SDO API do all that the Cloud API can?

Thanks Ben, For us, this is a serious shortcoming, we are a charity running 'projects' that need to associate and collate costs and services under project headings (hence the use of Departments and cost centres). This shortcoming means we cannot do this through the software we have invested in. Instead, we have to go back into Sage Cloud and change each cost/service manually!! To find this out after every other Sage API function does what we need and works is really disappointing. You say there's no ETA - but I do hope Sage are actually working on exposing this functionality to the API . Can you confirm this, yes or no ?

Looking to find out what field I should use to set the department code and cost centre for a sales invoice item - when using POST /sales_invoices - can't find a mention in the Sales Transactions documentation. Am using the API extensively and have no issues so far. Help much appreciated Thanks