Paperless HTML Email

by MBA Business Software


Enhance your Sage 100 Paperless Office Emails with HTML. Add a signature tag, link to social media, and make the email look the way you want it to look instead of plain text.

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The Paperless Office module allows users to set up PDF and electronic delivery options for all standard reports, journals, and registers as well as most customer, vendor, and employee forms. The setup process for Paperless Office follows a tiered approach allowing it to be set up with options specific to a company, module, customer, vendor, employee (payroll), or individual document. More information about Paperless Office can be found in Sage’s manual for Sage 100.

Electronic Delivery Message Maintenance is used to maintain the default messages when using electronic delivery of the PDF documents. The maintenance screen can be accessed by logging into Sage 100 and going to Modules | Paperless Office | Setup | Electronic Delivery Message Maintenance. Paperless office, as of the 2018 version, was designed to allow only the body of the electronic delivery to use plain text for the message.
Standard Electronic Delivery Message Maintenance

The Paperless HTML Email enhancement was created to allow Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code to be entered, as well as plain text, in the body of the Electronic Delivery. By allowing HTML to be entered in the body, the email being sent can have logo’s, tables, and other formatting that coordinates with the companies existing brand. It will allow for linking to websites and Social Media.

This enhancement DOES NOT WORK WITH FAX DELIVERY. If Fax Delivery is used as one of the options of Electronic Delivery, this modification may have unexpected results. Only use this enhancement if using E-Mail delivery for Electronic Delivery.

The enhancement can be downloaded for the version of Sage 100 that is needed by clicking the download links in the Versions section in this document. The downloaded file will be a self-extracting zip file with only a single executable within the zip file. Extract that executable (.exe) to your desktop or preferred folder and execute by double clicking on the icon. Execute the installation program and follow the instructions. While the installation does not require everyone to be out of Sage 100 before installing, it may be necessary to log out and log back in to display menu changes. mba-installer.jpg

Enter the destination folder of the Sage 100 application. The path should include the MAS90 folder. Example: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Sage 100 Standard ERP\MAS90\”. Click on Install when done. Files will be extracted to the folder specified and will trigger the Product Install to Sage 100. Click on Install to install the Enhancement to Sage 100. mba_installer_product_install.jpg

Version Difference Warning

If there is a version difference a Version Mismatch Warning will appear.

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This warning is expected if product updates have been installed. If the first two sets of numbers, 6.00 in the example shown, match then click on OK. If they do not match click on the red X and exit the installation. The correct version of the modification will need to be downloaded.

Once it is done installing the Enhancement, there will be two buttons displaying, Finish and Log. Click on the Finish button to complete the install process. If an error occurred on the screen or to validate the install, click on the Log button to view the install log. At this point, the Enhancement has been installed.

e-Business Users

If using e-Business, this Enhancement can be extended to Modules | eBusiness Manager | E-mail Notification Maintenance. To use this enhancement with e-Business, copy the file SY_EmailEngine.PVC from the “.\MAS90\Links” folder to the “.\WEBENG\Links” folder used by e-Business.

Once the enhancement has been installed it must be registered for it to be active. Access to registration will have to be assigned to a user or group to have access to registration. To assign permissions, go to Modules | Library Master | Main | Role Maintenance. Enter the role assigned to the user or group that will need to have access to the MBA Enhancement Registration and click on the Tasks tab. Navigate to Library Master | Maintenance/Data Entry | MBA Enhancement Registration and make sure it is checked to allow access. To register the enhancement, the user must have at least View and Modify checked. If uninstalling an enhancement, Remove must be checked. To launch registration, go to Modules | Library Master | Utilities | MBA Enhancement Registration. A list of MBA enhancements will be displayed in the registration.

Each enhancement that has been installed will display a check in the box in the column called Installed. The check box in the Activate column will appear once the enhancement has been successfully registered. If there is not a check mark, when clicking in the box, it will open a web page to the online ordering for that enhancement. Once a license key has been generated, enter it in the license column. If the license is valid, a check mark will appear in the Activate column. If the enhancement has an expiration date, the Expiration column will display the last day that the enhancement will work without being renewed.

Key Information

License keys will have the enhancement code followed by a 10 digit number. They are specific by enhancement and by the serial number of the installation.

Changes to a line can be undone by clicking on the Reset button. All rows can be reset by clicking on the drop down arrow on the Reset button and clicking Reset All Rows.

The Print button will print a list of all the enhancements indicating what has been installed and activated along with other information such as the description, license key and the expiration. This documentation can be accessed from the MBA Enhancement Registration by clicking on the help button. When done making changes or registering enhancements, click on the Accept button to close the MBA Enhancement Registration. Clicking on Cancel will close the screen without any changes being saved.

System Wide enhancement options are accessed through Modules | Library Master | Utilities | MBA Enhancement Registration. Click on the enhancement description to access its configuration. This enhancement does not have any system wide configuration so the Configure button in the MBA Enhancement Registration screen will be grayed out. This documentation can be accessed by clicking on the Manual button.

The editing of the emails to have HTML can be done in two places:

  1. Paperless Office
  2. eBusiness Manager

Paperless Office

The maintenance of emails for Paperless Office is done in Electronic Delivery Message Maintenance. To access this maintenance screen go to Modules | Paperless Office | Setup | Electronic Delivery Message Maintenance.

Document Types can be Customer Forms, Vendor Forms, Employee Forms, Reports, Journals and Registers, and Period End Reports. Each Document can be setup by Company and will have a Subject Line along with the Message Body.

Select the Document type, company code, module code and document that is to be configured for sending HTML emails. HTML tags can be entered in the body of the email. The subject line does NOT support HTML tags, and if used in the subject, the tag itself will be shown to the user receiving the email. The example above shows how the standard plain text email from paperless would be setup. It has merge fields like <Document> in the subject and the body. Any links to websites are plain text and no images exist in the email. The result to the customer receiving the Invoice would appear as plain text as shown below.

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If there are no HTML tags in the message body, then the message will be sent as plain text.

With the Paperless Office HTML enhancement installed and active, HTML can now be used in the body of the email. Below is the same document but instead of using plain text, HTML markup is used.

The merge field <Document> exist in the subject and in the body, like it did in the previous example. The body has multiple tables as well as multiple images. Links to websites exist within the text of the body.

Key Information

The number of characters that the body allows has not been modified and is using the maximum size available of 4096.

Additional Enhancements Available

This enhancement does not increase the size of the field that stores the body content. Please refer to our enhancement, HTML Email Advanced, if a larger size HTML body is required.

When the email is received, it will look like the sample below.

e-Business Manager

The maintenance of emails from the webengine in eBusiness Manager is done in E-mail Notification Maintenance. To configure emails sent from e-Business Manager go to Modules | eBusiness Manager | Setup | E-mail Notification Maintenance. Select the Notification to be modified. Just as in Paperless Office, the subject and body of the message can have text entered.

This sample shows how the standard plain text email from eBusiness would look. It has merge fields like «USER_INFORMATION» that can be in both the subject and the body of the email. When the email is sent as plain text it will look like this:

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If there are no HTML tags in the message body, then the message will be sent as plain text.

With the Paperless Office HTML enhancement installed and active, HTML can now be used in the body of the email. Below is the same document but instead of using plain text, HTML markup is used.

In this sample with HTML markup, it shows how the enhancement allows for HTML. The merge field «USER_INFORMATION» exists in the subject and in the body, like it did in the previous example. The body has multiple tables as well as multiple images. Links to websites exist within the text of the body.

To uninstall an Enhancement, launch the registration program Modules | Library Master | Utilities | MBA Enhancement Registration. Select the Enhancement from the grid and press the Uninstall button. This will remove the enhancement from the system. A message box will appear stating which enhancement is being uninstalled. Click on OK to uninstall or Cancel to go back to the MBA Enhancement Registration without making any change. When an enhancement is removed the check box under Installed will be unchecked and the license with expiration date will be removed.

Extra Step for eBusiness Users

If Paperless Office HTML enhancement has been setup for eBusiness, the file webeng\links\sy_EmailEngine.pvc will have to be manually removed.

Once all enhancements have been uninstalled, the MBA Enhancement Registration can be removed by clicking on the Remove Enhancement Registration button. This button is only activated once all enhancements have been uninstalled. A message box will appear stating that it will uninstall the MBA Enhancement Registration.

Click on OK to remove it or click Cancel to return to the MBA Enhancement Registration without making any change. A message will display when the files have been removed. Click on OK to close the window. When the MBA Enhancement Registration is removed, users will need to exit out of Sage 100 to have their menu updated. Once the menu is updated, the menu item for MBA Enhancement Registration is removed.

Take Note

Uninstall vs Deactivate
Before Uninstalling the Enhancement, which removes your License and Expiration, consider just de-activating the Enhancement by un-checking the box under the Activate column. Your Enhancement will not function until you re-activate the Enhancement by checking in the box under the Activate column.

For support on this or any other MBA Business Software Enhancement, please send us an email via our contact page.

Paperless HTML Email only changes your email sent from Sage 100 to an HTML format when a few requirements are met:

  1. Enhancement must be installed
  2. Enhancement must be registered
  3. Body of the email must have expected HTML tags

If the outgoing email is displaying the HTML tags when it is sent, then it usually indicates that the system doesn't have a valid registration. Check Registration by going to Modules | Library Master | Utilities | MBA Enhancement Registration. Navigate to the line for Paperless HTML enhancement. Confirm that there is a check box in Install and Activate. Since this enhancement is free, it is expected to have a blank Expiration value.

The .\MAS90\Links folder should have a file called SY_EmailEngine.PVC. If this doesn't exist, make sure that it was not moved or deleted. If the file no longer exists, then reinstall the enhancement. If the system is not sending HTML for eBusiness users, confirm that the instructions were followed to copy the required files to the webengine folder.

These are the files that have been changed

Paperless HTML EmailTypeDescription
Links\EmailEngine.PVCOverride triggerIndicates an override exists
SY\SY106_HTM_EmailEngine.PVCClass OverrideChange Paperless Email to HTML
MBA Enhancement LibraryTypeDescription
SY\SY106_Enhancement_SVC.PVCClassEnhancement Service Object
SY\SY106_INI_SVC.PVCClassINI Service Object
SY\SY106_License.M4LPanel LibraryLicense Panel Library
SY\SY106_License.PVCClassLicense
SY\SY106_License_BUS.PVCClassLicense Business Object
SY\SY106_License_SVC.PVCClassLicense Service Object
SY\SY106_License_UI.PVCClassLicense User interface
SY\SY106_Lister_SVC.PVCClassLister Service Object
SY\SY106_Nomads.PVCClassNomads Enhancements
MAS_System\SY106_Enhancement.M4TClassTable of MBA Enhancements
MD\MD106_Ini_SVC.pvcClassINI Service Object
MD\MD106_Install.M4LPanel LibraryMBA Install Panel Library
MD\MD106_Install.M4PProgramInstallation Program
MD\MD106_Install_BUS.pvcClassInstall Business Object
MD\MD106_Install_UI.pvcClassInstall User Interface
MD\MD106_UpdateLibrary.PVCClassInstall Panel Update
Launcher\WizWurks.bmpImageLogo for Install
MBA_Install.iniINI FileMBA Install Configuration File
Reports\SY106_LicenseListing.rptCrystal ReportList of MBA Licenses and enhancements


Paperless HTML Email is available in the versions listed below. If your version is not listed, please send us an email via our contact page. The download links will be available after an account is created on our website and a license has been released.

Related information about the Enhancement, this website, and its documentation

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