Sage 100 Contractor comes with a set of sample data, "Sample Company," installed together with the Sage 100 Contractor software.
The Sample Company includes:
- Sample accounts, sample employees, sample takeoffs, and much more.
- Starter lists for many values you will need to set up cost codes, cost types, tasks, client status, client type, employee positions, paygroups, and so on.
- Samples of many Sage 100 Contractor forms that are already filled in, making it easy to understand many concepts.
- Live data to investigate the content of Sage 100 Contractor reports.
Note: We highly recommend that you deploy the Sample Company data. While taking little space on your hard disk, Sample Company lets you and other users practice using Sage 100 Contractor without any risk to your own company data. Sage 100 Contractor master trainers use Sample Company extensively during Sage 100 Contractor training classes, and in many online and recorded classes.
About deploying Sample Company
After installation, or any time you want to restore Sample Company to its original state after users have worked with it, you use the Deploy Sample Company tab to make Sample Company available for use in Sage 100 Contractor.
When you deploy Sample Company, you are added as a company administrator to the list of Sample Company users in Sage 100 Contractor, along with a set of sample users. For more information, see Sample user names and passwords.
When you redeploy Sample Company, any users that have been added to Sample Company in Sage 100 Contractor are retained.
For steps on deploying Sample Company, see Deploying the Sample Company.
Sample user names and passwords
Users can log in to the sample company using one of the user names that comes with the sample data, or they can use their usual Sage 100 Contractor credentials, providing the company administrator adds them as users in the Sample Company.
When you deploy sample data for the current version, the "sample users" are:
- For the U.S. Edition:
- Bryan - Sample User (Owner/Comptroller)
- Debra - Sample User (Owner/Comptroller)
- Ginger - Sample User (Payables)
- Jenny - Sample User (GL/Receivables/Payables)
- Josh - Sample User (Estimator/PM)
- Lynn - Sample User (Owner/Comptroller)
- Scott - Sample User (Estimator/PM)
- For the Canadian Edition:
- Angela - Sample User
- Becky - Sample User
- Brandi - Sample User
- Brandy - Sample User
- Denise - Sample User
- Gerald - Sample User
- Heidi - Sample User
- Ken - Sample User
- Kyle - Sample User
- Melinda - Sample User
- Rachel - Sample User
- Scott - Sample User
- Vincent - Sample User
If you migrated the Sample Company from version 19.8, the list of users will be the same as it was in that version. If the user names were not modified in the earlier version, the users names are the same as those listed here, but without “Sample User” at the end. (For example, rather than “Bryan – Sample User,” the user is simply “Bryan.")
Note: These sample users all use the password password.