We’ve been rubbing shoulders with some of the globe’s top Internet geeks when they descended on the region for two digital conferences.

The DIBI Conference saw a host of speakers take to The Sage Gateshead for the one day event.

Top web designer Andy Clarke, who we have been working closely with over the last year, wowed the crowds with his anecdotes, top tips and advice on CSS and web design.

Jon McLoone shared his titillating tales on working with Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica since 2002, and Michael Brunton-Spall spilled the beans on how he helps the Guardian newspaper boost its online presence.

Last week, we were among thousands of people who flocked to the same venue for the world famous, three-day Thinking Digital conference.

Hosted by Codeworks, the event was rammed full of speakers, networking events and evening entertainment.

If you haven’t already been, then we’d recommend next year’s event but you’d better get booked early as it’s always a sell out.

For more information and to see some photos we took from the events, visit:

http://www.dibiconference.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpivision/sets/72157623955844174/

http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpivision/sets/72157624120237097/

Connect from Internetware is a business automation tool which allows you to seamlessly download customers and orders from Tradingeye into Sage 50, Sage 200 or Sage Instant accounts as well as Sage Act! CRM

The new Tradingeye integration has just been launched and supports the download of Customers and Invoices (or Sales Orders) in your accounts software.

Order in Tradingeye

Invoice automatically created in Sage 50 Accounts

Customer in as shown in Tradingeye

Customer in Sage 50 Accounts – The Account Ref is auto generated by Connect and associated to the Tradingeye customer.

Installation

Simply copy the Sage plugin into a /sage directory on your Tradingeye site, and just run the installer script from http://localhost/sage

Complete the settings in the configuration screen and click Save

Now, setup Connect with the supplied URL’s (Your URLs may be different to the ones shown above).

What’s coming soon in Connect for Tradingeye~

We will continue to expand on the Tradingeye integration and here’s a list of what we’ve got planned

•    Support for Invoice discounts
•    Upload of Products and Images from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of Product categories from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of stock levels from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of Supplier records from Sage to Tradingeye

Pricing

Tradingeye Plugin for Connect – Free to all Tradingeye customers
Connect for Sage 50 / Instant Accounting – £25pm or £300pa
Connect for Sage Act! – £25pm or £300pa
Telephone and Email support – £25pm or £300pa

The annual or monthly license fee for the software includes all future updates to the software. All prices are quoted excluding VAT (EU only).