SouthWare StayCurrent

SouthWare StayCurrent Center

Your Business Solutions is critical to your business every day.

You should stay current to:

Maximize your business flexibility and capability
Always have access to the latest features
Increase solution reliability
Save on support and maintenance costs

Proactive Software Maintenance Assurance

Exerve's Proactive Software Maintenance Assurance (PSMA) covers new software revisions, flash enhancements & patch updates for your core business management solution. This option offers our best coverage with access to the latest features and maximum solution reliability at the lowest overall cost.

Agreement Coverage:

Major New Revision Updates
Regular Flash Enhancements
Regular Patch Updates
Updates to 1099s & W2s

Additional Benefits:

Support for Windows 10 & Windows 2016 Server
Ability to add new users to your current solution
Ability to add new modules to your current solution
FREE Internal NetLink Module while current on maintenance
FREE NetFlow Module
Hardware & OS Support (see Windows support information*)
Increased Solution Reliability
Significant Discount over Irregular Upgrade Costs
Special Savings on Support Costs & Service Time Blocks
Year-end Help Checklist
and much more

Learn about the latest revision...

Current Platform

2018 W2 Changes
(from 10/11/18)

W2 Printed Forms

Two new Box 12 types GG Qualified Equity Grants Income and HH Aggregate Deferrals under Section 83i. This brings Box 12 codes to 29.

W2 EFW2 File:

RA record position 20-23 Software Vendor Code should be populated. SouthWare's vendor code is 1709.
GG and HH added to RO and RU records
GG amount in RO record positions 122-132 and the total GG amount in RU record positions 160-174
HH amount in RO record positions 133-143 and the total HH amount in RU record positions 175-189

The new changes require a CMSS expiration date of at least 10/31/18.

New programs are only required if submitting the EFW2 file or you need the two new BOX 12 types on the printed forms.

Checks & Other Forms
southwareforms.com Southware Forms and the linked order forms are for Dynamic Solutions, a form supply company that supplies SouthWare Excellence Series ready forms.

64 Bit Servers & Applications
SouthWare Support for 64 Bit Operating Systems
SouthWare is a 32-bit application that runs on Windows 64 Bit Servers and 64-Bit Workstations in the Revision 15 PLATFORM (8.12 runtime)

SouthWare Support for 64 Bit Applications (Office 2010)
If you want to interface to 64-bit 3rd party programs such as OUTLOOK 2010 or ODBC Access using EXCEL 2010, this is currently NOT supported. We do support the 32-bit version of those 3rd party applications.
SouthWare highly recommends that you use 32-bit programs when interfacing to and from SouthWare.

Windows Server Support
SouthWare Support for Windows 10 & 2016 Server
SouthWare supports Windows 10 on Platform 16. Windows Server 2016 is not supported yet. Please contact Exerve before moving to these platforms.

SouthWare Release Timeline
1.0 1984
2.0 1985
3.0 1987, July
4.0 1989, December
5.0 1993, November
6.0 1995, November
7.0 1998, July
8.0 2000, November
9.0 2003, July
10 2004, June
11    2005, August
12 2006, May
13 2007, June
14 2008, June
   Platform 15
15-2009 2009, June
15-2010 2010, January
15-2011    2011, January
15-2012 2012, January
15-2013 2013, January
14-2014    2014, January
15-2015 2015, January
With Revision 15, release sequence changed to platforms (Platform 15). Enhancements are now released monthly, as completed and do not require a full upgrade process. New platforms released when required.
             Platform 16
16-2016 2016, May
16-2017 2017
16-2018 2018
16-2019 2019