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Connect Sage 50 & TIMS: Unify Your Financial & Operational ERP

Automate workflows, synchronize critical data, and gain real-time insights with a powerful, AI-driven integration platform.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect: Manual Processes Between Sage 50 & TIMS

Businesses often struggle with fragmented data and inefficient manual processes when operating Sage 50 and TIMS in silos. This leads to costly errors, delayed reporting, and a lack of real-time visibility across critical financial and operational functions.

  • Duplicate data entry across systems
  • Inconsistent customer and product information
  • Lagging inventory updates causing overselling or stockouts
  • Manual reconciliation of sales orders, invoices, and payments
  • Slow financial closing cycles and inaccurate reporting
  • High risk of human error in data transfer
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The Solution

The Integrated Solution: Sage 50 & TIMS Powered by iPaaS

Our modern iPaaS solution seamlessly connects Sage 50 and TIMS, transforming your financial and operational workflows. By establishing a unified data ecosystem, we eliminate manual bottlenecks, ensure data accuracy, and provide real-time visibility across your enterprise. This integration empowers your business to operate with unprecedented efficiency and agility.

  • Bidirectional Customer, Vendor, and Product synchronization
  • Automated Sales Order to Invoice and Payment processing
  • Real-time Inventory level updates across systems
  • Streamlined Purchase Order and Vendor Invoice matching
  • General Ledger transaction posting and reconciliation automation
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Sage + 50 TIMS in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Sage and 50 TIMS, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Sage + 50 TIMS deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Bidirectional Customer, Vendor, and Product synchronization
  • Automated Sales Order to Invoice and Payment processing
  • Real-time Inventory level updates across systems
  • Streamlined Purchase Order and Vendor Invoice matching
  • General Ledger transaction posting and reconciliation automation
  • Robust error handling and data validation

Technical Integration Details: Sage 50 and TIMS Connectivity

Our iPaaS provides robust, secure, and scalable connectivity between Sage 50 and TIMS, abstracting the complexities of their native interfaces. We leverage an API-first, event-driven architecture to ensure optimal performance and data integrity.

Data Flow Steps

1. Secure Connection: Establish secure connections to Sage 50 (via dedicated connector utilizing SDK/ODBC or cloud API) and TIMS (via REST API with OAuth 2.0).

2. Event Triggering: Configure event listeners or webhooks on TIMS (e.g., new sales order, inventory update) and change data capture for Sage 50 to initiate workflows.

3. Data Extraction: Extract relevant data entities (e.g., Sales Order, Customer) from the source system.

4. Data Transformation & Mapping: Utilize the iPaaS's visual mapping canvas to transform source data fields to match the target system's schema, applying business logic and AI-assisted suggestions.

5. Validation: Implement pre-posting validation rules to ensure data quality and prevent errors in Sage 50 or TIMS.

6. Data Loading: Push the transformed and validated data to the target system via its respective API endpoint.

7. Error Handling & Monitoring: Log all transactions, manage retries for transient errors, and alert on critical failures, providing full observability.

Data Touchpoints

Sage 50: Customer, Vendor, Item/Product, Sales Order, Purchase Order, Sales Invoice, Purchase Invoice, Payment/Receipt, General Ledger Account, Journal Entry.
TIMS: Customer, Product/Item, Sales Order, Invoice (AR), Payment (AR), Vendor, Purchase Order, General Ledger Entry, Inventory Adjustment, Shipment.

"Conceptual Flow: Trigger in Source System -> iPaaS Connector (Extract) -> Data Transformation & Validation -> iPaaS Connector (Load) -> Target System -> Acknowledge/Update Source (Optional)."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Sage + 50 TIMS.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating Sage

Integrating Sage fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Entities & Field-Level Mappings for Sage 50 and TIMS

Understanding the core entities and their field-level mappings is crucial for a successful Sage 50-TIMS integration. Our iPaaS provides a visual mapping canvas and AI assistance to streamline this complex process.

Customer

Synchronizes customer records between the two systems, ensuring consistent contact, billing, and shipping information for sales and accounting.

Sage Fields

CustomerID CompanyName ContactName BillingAddress ShippingAddress Email Phone CreditLimit Terms SalesTaxCode

50 TIMS Fields

CustomerID (TIMS unique ID) ExternalID (e.g., Sage 50 ID) CompanyName FirstName LastName Email Phone BillingAddress ShippingAddress PaymentTerms

Mapping Notes

Sage 50's CustomerID often maps to TIMS's ExternalID. `CompanyName` is a common lookup field. Address fields require careful harmonization due to potential format differences. Payment terms and credit limits should be consistent.

Next Steps

See Sage + 50 TIMS integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

eCommerce Order-to-Cash Automation

Seamlessly transfer sales orders from your eCommerce platform into TIMS, then push fulfillment details and create corresponding invoices in Sage 50, updating inventory and payment statuses across all systems.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places order on eCommerce platform.
  2. 1 iPaaS captures new order event (webhook).
  3. 2 iPaaS creates Sales Order in TIMS, deducting inventory.
  4. 3 TIMS updates eCommerce with order status (e.g., 'Processing').
  5. 4 Fulfillment in TIMS triggers shipment details.
  6. 5 iPaaS updates eCommerce with tracking number.
  7. 6 iPaaS creates Sales Invoice in Sage 50 based on TIMS fulfillment.
  8. 7 Payment received in eCommerce is posted as a Receipt in Sage 50.

Business Outcome

Faster order processing, real-time inventory accuracy, reduced manual order entry, improved customer satisfaction.

Frequency

Real-time, event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Boost Operational Efficiency
Automate routine data entry and reconciliation tasks, freeing up staff to focus on strategic activities.
Achieve Real-time Data Accuracy
Ensure consistent and accurate data across Sage 50 and TIMS, eliminating discrepancies and improving reliability.
Accelerate Financial Close
Streamline GL posting, bank reconciliation, and invoice processing to close your books faster and more confidently.
Enhance Inventory Management
Synchronize inventory levels in real-time between TIMS and Sage 50 to prevent overselling and optimize stock.
Improve Decision Making
Access unified, up-to-date financial and operational insights for more informed strategic decisions.
Strengthen Compliance & Security
Maintain comprehensive audit trails and enforce data validation rules to meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive information.
✨

Boost Operational Efficiency

70% Reduction in manual data entry

📋 What You Get

Automate routine data entry and reconciliation tasks, freeing up staff to focus on strategic activities.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 70% improvement in Reduction in manual data entry, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with Sage + 50 TIMS in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Sage and 50 TIMS, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Sage + 50 TIMS deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/customers Retrieve, create, or update customer records for CRM or eCommerce sync.
GET, PUT /api/v1/items Retrieve or update product/service items, including inventory levels, for eCommerce and inventory management.
POST, GET, PUT /api/v1/salesorders Create new sales orders from eCommerce, retrieve order status.
POST, GET /api/v1/invoices Create customer invoices, retrieve invoice details for payment reconciliation.
POST, GET /api/v1/payments Post incoming customer payments or vendor payments, retrieve payment history.
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/vendors Retrieve, create, or update vendor records for procurement and accounts payable.
POST /api/v1/generalledger/transactions Post journal entries for financial adjustments or automated reconciliation.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Field Mapping: Direct mapping of common fields (e.g., `CompanyName`, `Email`).
  • Data Type Conversion: Convert dates, numbers, and boolean values to match target system requirements.
  • Value Lookups: Map dropdown values or codes (e.g., `PaymentMethod` codes).
  • Conditional Logic: Apply rules like 'If TIMS OrderStatus is 'Shipped', then create Sage 50 Invoice'.
  • Concatenation/Splitting: Combine or separate fields (e.g., `FirstName` + `LastName` to `ContactName`).
  • Default Values: Assign default values for missing non-mandatory fields.
  • GL Account Determination: Dynamically assign Sage 50 GL accounts based on TIMS item categories or transaction types.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Invalid data format from source system
  • Missing mandatory fields for target system
  • API rate limit exceeded
  • Temporary network or service unavailability
  • Duplicate record creation attempt
  • Business logic validation failure (e.g., negative inventory)
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Sage + 50 TIMS.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ Why is a modern iPaaS crucial for Sage 50 and TIMS integration?
Sage 50, especially desktop versions, often relies on traditional data access. TIMS offers a robust API. A modern iPaaS abstracts these complexities, providing a unified, API-first, event-driven layer for real-time data sync, robust error handling, and low-code workflow design, far exceeding point-to-point limitations and enhancing interoperability.

AI & Automation FAQs

▸ How can AI enhance Sage 50 and TIMS integration workflows?
AI significantly augments workflows by automating tasks like data extraction from vendor invoices, performing intelligent validation, detecting anomalies in financial transactions, suggesting optimal GL account mappings, and even autonomously resolving common integration errors, leading to higher data quality and efficiency across both systems.

Business Value FAQs

▸ What are the main business benefits of integrating Sage 50 with TIMS?
Integrating Sage 50 and TIMS ensures real-time inventory accuracy, automates order entry and fulfillment, streamlines vendor invoice processing, and provides a unified view of customer and financial data. This reduces manual errors, speeds up operations, prevents overselling, and ultimately enhances customer satisfaction and business growth.

Technical FAQs

▸ Can Sage 50 and TIMS integrations support real-time data synchronization?
Yes, with a modern iPaaS. By leveraging event-driven architecture, webhooks (from TIMS), or efficient change data capture mechanisms (for Sage 50), an iPaaS can monitor both ERPs for updates and push changes to connected systems in near real-time, ensuring data consistency across your entire ecosystem.

Implementation FAQs

▸ How do you manage development, testing, and production environments for Sage 50 and TIMS integrations?
A modern iPaaS supports robust environment promotion pipelines (dev → QA → prod). This involves separate configurations and credentials for each environment, version control for integration flows, automated testing, and controlled deployment processes to ensure changes are thoroughly validated before impacting live Sage 50 and TIMS operations.

Data Management FAQs

▸ What are common challenges when transforming data for Sage 50 and TIMS, and how are they addressed?
Challenges include differing data schemas, inconsistent data formats, missing mandatory fields, and complex business rules (e.g., tax calculations, GL account mapping). Our iPaaS's robust mapping engine and transformation capabilities, often augmented by AI, are essential to overcome these, ensuring data integrity before posting to either Sage 50 or TIMS.

Security FAQs

▸ What security considerations are important for Sage 50 and TIMS integrations?
Security is paramount. Key considerations include robust authentication (OAuth 2.0 for TIMS, secure agents for Sage 50 desktop), encrypting all data in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and at rest, implementing least privilege access, and regularly auditing integration logs. The iPaaS provides secure credential management, IP whitelisting, and compliance certifications.

Workflow Automation FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS help orchestrate complex workflows involving Sage 50, TIMS, and other systems?
An iPaaS acts as the central brain, defining the sequence, logic, and conditions for data flow across Sage 50, TIMS, CRM, eCommerce, and other applications. It manages triggers, transformations, routing, error handling, and parallel processing, ensuring seamless, end-to-end automation of complex business processes.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Sage + 50 TIMS in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Sage and 50 TIMS, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Sage + 50 TIMS deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Sage + 50 TIMS.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See Sage + 50 TIMS integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo