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Microsoft Dynamics Gp Local Ecommerce Support In Chicago

If you are ecommerce B2B or B2C retailer and your Corporate ERP application is Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly known as Great Plains Dynamics, and you are located in Northern Illinois Chicagoland metro area, we would like to recommend you this small publication.  Local service is technically not required, when you have to implement technology challenging projects, such as custom ecommerce integration to Great Plains Dynamics GP, however it is always good idea to have your Dynamics GP Partner to be available across the street and ready to face you in your office.  We would like to review custom ecommerce programming techniques and steps, related to Microsoft Dynamics GP platform:

1. Real Time ecommerce integration to Great Plains.  Here you have to look at eConnect SDK, which allows you to include its libraries into Microsoft Visual Studio (typically C# or VB, as these languages have code samples in eConnect help and this makes your development discovery and learning curve easier and shorter) ecommerce web application project, where you can program instant push of ecommerce shopping cart to Great Plains Sales Order Processing Invoice (with customer deposit, if you are getting instant credit card payment).  Real time integration might seems like perfect option for you, however it has development and implementation cost.  If you are on the tight budget, consider quasi real time or even batch mode ecommerce integrations

2. Quasi Real Time ecommerce integration.  Quasi is philosophical term, here we mean that it is about every hour you see ecommerce transactions propagated to GP.  Quasi real time integration could be set in Integration Manager module of GP and it doesn't require programming (if you are not looking for custom integration logic, and if you do - programming could be event driven in VBA scripts).  IM integration could be scheduled with Windows macro add-ons (often available as shareware or free software) or could be purchased from Microsoft Business Solutions through you Dynamics GP Reseller.  If you schedule your integration to run every twenty minutes, it is probably quasi real time compliant

3. Batch mode ecommerce integration.  This is the simplest one and could be developed and maintained internally.  Open Integration Manager, design ecommerce integration to SOP Invoice, and then train your GP user to run integration every morning

4. eConnect automatic batch posting.  There are some nuances in eConnect programming.  One of them is tightly related to Great Plains architecture: eConnect is for work documents and master records integrations.  Work transactions are saved into the batch and the batch is subject for Great Plains user approval.  If you need to post the batch directly from your ecommerce application, consider Alba Spectrum Posting Server

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Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving GP customers USA and Canada Nationwide: California, Minnesota, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, new Mexico, Iowa, Indiana, Alaska, Hawaii. Local service is available in Houston/Dallas: Richmond, Rosenberg, Katy, Galveston, Sugar Land; in Chicago: Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield, Romeoville, Batavia, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Rockford, Elgin, Crystal Lake, Joliet, Hinsdale, Lisle, Montgomery, Oswego

Is there a good free business software ?

I'm looking for something real simple, like a template for sending invoices and basic expenses etc. Is there anything good and free? I'm trying to start a small business. Real small. Thanks.

You can use free open source OpenOffice for many business documents. More details here:
http://www.smb-soft.com/common-software/business-applications/10-office-suite

You can download business templates for OpenOffice free from here:
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/templates/business

You can either use the spreadsheet program in OpenOffice or use free open source accounting program GnuCash for keeping track of your expenses. For more details on GnuCash see here:
http://www.smb-soft.com/common-software/business-applications/8-accounting-software

IT contractor guide to invoices
When discussing payment of invoices with a new client or recruitment agency, it is imperative that you remember our recommendations in the previous article, pertaining to receiving and inputting the relevant information, accurately and in full.

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