Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Turn Salesforce Opportunities into Invoices in your Favourite Accounting Application

Announcing the Upcoming Integration with Salesforce

We are pleased to announce the upcoming addition of the customer relationship management (CRM) application Salesforce to the CarryTheOne integration platform. The addition will allow businesses and individuals using Salesforce to import their sales into e-conomic, FreshBooks, KashFlow or Xero.

We've done our best to make the integration as robust and flexible as possible and we've made some significant updates to our core platform for a clear configuration experience. There are multiple ways to handle tax, an option to define payment methods using a custom field in Salesforce (this is useful if you want to record payments under different bank accounts in your accounts software) and similarly a way to identify shipping lines in case you want special handling.

How Do You Want It to Work?

We are in the final stages of a working integration, but it's not too late for suggestions and feature requests. In fact, we want to ask you how you want the integration to work. If you use Salesforce and are interested in this integration, please write to us using our contact form to tell us your requirements (select "Salesforce Suggestion" as Nature of Request).

How it Currently Works

An opportunity is imported as an invoice in your accounting app when it reaches the desired "trigger" stage, e.g. "Closed Won". If you have chosen to use payment methods, you can select a different trigger stage and other options per payment method. The options you have will depend on the accounts app with which you are integrating.

Features
  • Invoice reference: you can enter a custom Salesforce field to use for the order number/reference on the invoice.
  • Credit notes: automatically create a credit note in your accounting app if an opportunity reaches a certain stage.

Tax Options
  1. Set tax per opportunity product line using a Salesforce custom field
  2. Set tax per product using a Salesforce custom field
  3. Set tax per opportunity using a Salesforce custom field
  4. Set a global tax rate in the integrations configuration
  5. Tax does not apply
For options 2,4 and 5 you can also choose to utilise a custom opportunity checkbox field for exempting certain opportunities from tax.

The custom fields referred to above, if you choose to use them, will probably need to be created in your Salesforce account. This is easy enough to do:

Click on your user name on the top-right of your screen > Setup > under 'App Setup' in the left menu, click Customize > click the type of object to which your adding the field (e.g. Opportunities, Products) > Fields > where it says '[object type] Custom Fields', click 'new'.

Testing

If you are interested in trying out our Salesforce integration before it is launched, please get in touch with us as well. We will shortly open up the integration for testing and send you details of how you can try it out. You will need a free Salesforce Developer account.

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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Inventory Support Added to Xero Integration

We are pleased to announce support for Xero's inventory system which was recently made available on their API (what we use to connect with them).

What does it mean?

If you choose to use the inventory system, CTO will specify item codes when creating your invoices in Xero. This will enable you to track the sales performance of your items in Xero and better utilise reporting.

How does it work?

For every product invoice line with a product/item code set in your shopping cart app, if the code already exists in Xero, CTO will simply specify it on the invoice line, if not, CTO will create the item for you in Xero.

How do I use it?

1. Log into the CTO control panel
2. Click to configure your Xero integration
3. Select to use Xero's inventory system
4. Click save

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Sunday, 12 December 2010

Xero Integrations Are Now Seamless!

We are pleased to announce that our Xero integrations integrations now work seamlessly (set it and forget it). Previously a limitation in Xero's API meant that you had to authorise CTO every time you wanted to have your invoices imported. Thanks to 'long-life' authorisation made available to Xero Partners this is no longer an issue.

Our existing Xero clients have automatically been upgraded to the new system.

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Monday, 5 October 2009

Magento Alpha Release

We are readying the Alpha Release of Magento for this week.

If anyone would like to contribute their time by testing it and helping us to squish bugs, please use the contact form to get in touch!

It is available for KashFlow at the moment, but we will shortly be adding support for FreshBooks and Xero.

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