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.

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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 SouthWare Monitor Alerts with iPhone & Android App with current CMSS
  
• FREE Internal NetLink Module with current CMSS
• FREE NetFlow Module with current CMSS
• 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

• Current Revision Latest Features List (CMSS)
• Continuous Enhancement Guide Recap (2020)
• ​Exerve SouthWare Enhancements Recap (2019)
• Continuous Enhancement Guide Recap (2019)
• Continuous Enhancement Guide Recap (2018)
• ​CMSS Enhancement Guide Detail (2018)
• CMSS Enhancement Guide Detail (2017)
• CMSS Enhancement Guide Detail (2016)
• ​​Rev 16 Release Notice

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2020 W2 Changes
(from 11/6/20)

No 2020 W2 Changes.

2020 1099 Changes
(from 11/6/20)
New 1099-NEC Form and other 1099 Changes for 2020

There is a new Form 1099-NEC Nonemployee Compensation for business taxpayers who pay or receive nonemployee compensation. Starting in tax year 2020, payers must complete this form to report any payment of $600 or more to a payee.
 
WARNING: The new programs must be installed BEFORE building the 1099 Workfile.

Read more about the new changes here.

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2019 W2 Changes
(from 10/28/19)

​Small update to the W2 control file to allow for storing all 15 slots for W2 box 14.

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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 2016)
If you want to interface to 64-bit 3rd party programs such as OUTLOOK 2016 or ODBC Access using EXCEL 2016, 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 and Windows Server 2016 on Platform 16. Windows Server 2019 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
16-2020     2020
16-2021      2020