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Keep all your business data connected and allow it to flow seamlessly across your systems with our finance software integrations.

With 10 Access products (and growing!) and 5 third-party systems available for you to integrate your finance software with, you can be sure you'll make great business decisions with all your data at your finger tips.

Accounting software integrations to join your systems and data together

Access Financials integrates with other Access software solutions to allow you to manage all your business software in one place.

From HR to payroll, CRM, rostering, inventory, manufacturing and more, you'll be able to view all your data in one place - giving you a single source of the truth for accurate reporting and informed decision-making. 

10 integrations and counting, which ones will you choose?

Explore the 10 finance software integrations

Finance and CRM

Access CRM

Access Financials integrates with our CRM software Access CRM. Benefit from streamlined data allowing your CRM users such as marketing and sales and your finance users such as finance and operations to see all the information they need in one place without having to ask the other departments. 

If you are in finance or operations, integrated CRM and Finance systems provide benefits such as: 

  • Access to customer information and sales data gives your finance team the ability to forecast on future projects 
  • Reduce the burden of requests from the sales and marketing team about customers and ongoing projects as they can self-serve (customer on stop, credit limit etc.) 
  • Up-to-date data from your CRM such as customer sales and credit notes allows you to report and forecast accurately 
  • No more manual data entry - eliminate the risk of error and duplication 

If you are in sales or marketing, integrated CRM and Finance systems provide benefits such as: 

  • Access financial data instantly on customers and financial projects. Know your customers’ credit limits, which customers are on stop, and make informed decisions about who to sell to 
  • Understand your customers and their requirements with access to the history of their projects 
  • Drive targeted messages based on customer information - target people who have bought in a set period of time or who have bought a particular product 
  • Understand ROI on particular campaigns and channels thanks to sales order information available in CRM and flowing through from your finance software 
Finance and Inventory Management

Unleashed

Access Financials integrates with our inventory management system Unleashed 

Access Financials and Unleashed enable business leaders, sales, finance and operational managers in manufacturing, distribution and wholesale product-based businesses to achieve complete control of their sales, product inventory and accounting needs all in one place, with one supplier.  

The solutions provide end-to-end clarity, in real time over customers, purchasing, sales, inventory and production enabling scaling businesses to focus on what matters.   

  • All your data in one place with automatic transfer of transactions and contact records between Unleashed and Access Financials in real time - view customers, suppliers, sales invoices, purchase orders, journals (shipments & stock adjustments)   
  • Transparency and visibility of your margins and costs - specifying exact net profit for every sale 
  • Gain absolute control of your invoices, orders, statuses and shipping of orders. Split out orders, invoices & shipments as required. Chase and facilitate payments at the click of a button. Set yourself up to handle any type of return, granting full visibility of reasons and stock changes  
Finance and Waste Management

Access Weighsoft

Access Financials integrates with our waste management software Access Weighsoft allowing one complete picture of your operations with greater control and visibility across your waste management or construction supply organisation.  

  • Real-time accurate view of your financial and operational performance in one place 
  • Full visibility of customer records information such as contact details and basic financial data in both systems 
  • View your sales invoices, sales credit notes, sales payment receipts, custom field data (specifically for Committed, WIP and Not Invoiced values) directly in your finance system 
Finance and Expense Management

Access Expense

Access Financials integrates with our expense management software Access Expense. The integration streamlines your data flow between the two systems providing you with a complete view of your expense management process all the way through to how your expenses translate into your accounting system.

  • Automatic creation of staff records in your finance system with contact details and bank account information  
  • Expense claims can be seen directly in your finance system 
  • No need to manually transfer data or re-enter data  
  • Permission levels - users only access the solutions relevant to their role  
Finance and Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

FactoryMaster

Access Financials integrates with our Material Requirements Planning system FactoryMaster, providing you with a complete picture of stock, purchasing, materials, orders and output and increased efficiency at every stage of your manufacturing process. 

  • All your data in one place - view transactions, customer and supplier details in either system. Get a full picture of your finance and operations with information such as: Exchange rates, Intrastat codes, Nominal/analysis codes, VAT rates, Customer credit limits, Project codes, Sales Invoices/Credits, Purchase Invoice/Credits, Stock/WIP Valuation, Project Cost Centre Budgets and Project Costing 
  • Increased efficiency and streamlined operations with no manual rekeying of information between systems  
Finance and Payment Solutions

Access Paysuite – Seamless direct debits and secure payments

Access Financials integrates with our Paysuite solutions, providing seamless direct debits and secure BACS payments: 

  • Ultimate automated and hands-off experience: no need to download files to then upload into your BACS software  
  • All your data in one place: Direct debits and BACS payments are managed directly in Access Financials which means you don’t need to switch apps  
  • Increased security with no flat files – direct debits and BACS payments are securely and automatically picked up by Access Paysuite 
  • Complete control and visibility with automated payment statuses updates  
Finance and Payroll

Access Payroll

Access Financials integrates with our Payroll solutions, providing a direct link between your finance system and your payroll system. Benefits include: 

  • Automated transfers - send your Nominal Journals from Access Payroll to Access Financials – no need for repetitive manual data entry across multiple systems.  
  • Full visibility of your data in real time - Costing information is shared between your finance and your payroll system. This leads to employers’ national insurance (NI) and Pension costs being accounted for against projects  
  • Calculate payroll information quickly and reliably, without the chance for human error  
  • Gain a single source of truth with more reliable data and enhanced analysis and reporting  
Finance and Recruitment Solutions

Access Pay & Bill for Recruitment

Access Pay & Bill is a solution that enables Recruitment organisations to pay temporary staff and then bill the customers that they have been supplied to. Access Pay & Bill integrates with Access Financials for Recruitment via a central Datahub. The integrated systems can help you boost your finance and operational performance and provide benefits such as: 

  • Full candidate to cash accounting solution 
  • Credit control automation and improved cash flow management – up-to-date picture of customers and their outstanding debt to the business allow effective credit control and debt management 
  • Multi-dimensional analysis of data and access to Business Health analytics using Experian credit information  
  • Multi-currency and intercompany transactions   
  • Powerful dashboard reporting   
Finance and Not For Profit Solutions

Access Charity CRM for charities and Not for Profit organisations 

Access Financials for charities and Not for Profit organisations integrates with Access Charity CRM via a central Datahub. Benefits include: 

  • Access to up-to-date information: Customer records automatically available in the finance system when creating an invoice or credit note, Receipt batches posted as VAT Journals in the finance system, Sales Invoices & Credit Notes   
  • Increased accuracy and efficiency: the direct integration and flow of data in real time removes the need for manual data entry and repetition   
  • Stronger internal controls with tighter cash management – preparing you for easier auditing  
  • Complete visibility and transparency for securing and keeping donors and sponsors onboard  
Finance and Care Solutions

Access PeoplePlanner for care organisations

Access Financials for care organisations integrates with our rostering system, PeoplePlanner. People planner maintains customer and billing information that is available to use in Access Financials. The integrated systems provide benefits such as: 

  • All your data in one place – view all the information you need in real time such as costing information at project level, customer data, project data, sub ledger for multiple entities or departments, sales invoices and more 
  • Cyber security - protecting patient safety and privacy thanks to industry-leading UK cloud hosting: 100% uptime performance, GDPR and MTD compliant, enterprise-level security, automatic software upgrades and backups and 24/7 UK support  
  • Improving credit control – integrating care management with finance, increasing accuracy, creating timely billing and improving cash flow. Keeping your organisation operating at maximum efficiency with no need to manually transfer or re-enter data  
  • Understanding true contract operating costs - based on time, overheads and revenues and bringing this information together to drive accurate reporting and decision making  
  • Reducing overhead and admin costs – automating procurement and expenses, removing duplication and manual errors and providing a platform for growth that moves away from adding headcount and directs additional investment into the front line, ensuring that every pound counts in delivering quality care, and driving sustainability and growth 
  • Role-based system access - ensuring users only access the solutions relevant to their role  
Finance and Hospitality Solutions

Access ProcureWizard and Access EPoS for hospitality providers 

Access offers connected accounting, point of sale and purchase-to-pay for hospitality businesses. 

Using joined up hospitality accounting, electronic point of sale and purchase-to-pay, hospitality providers can reap many benefits: 

  • Gain full visibility of how much you have sold, how much it cost you to sell, how much profit you have made and how much stock you need and have 
  • Access all your data in one place, no more rekeying data between multiple systems 
  • Efficiently manage and track inventory levels, stock movements and cost of goods sold 
  • Calculate the cost of individual menu items, set appropriate prices and see which revenue streams are most profitable (e.g. which dishes for a restaurant) 
  • Manage supplier information, track purchases, streamline the procurement process to ensure efficient vendor relationships and reduce the risk of errors or fraud 
  • Track and manage expenses, gain a clear view of expenditures and identify areas for cost control 

All 10 integrations available in Access Workspace

Access Workspace is a software solution that joins together all your systems, data and people in one place. Making it easy for people across your organisation to input data, action approvals and view relevant data and reports. Everything you need joined up and in one place.

Modules include:

  • Access Analytics: merge data from a wide range of sources to see real-time reports and interactive data dashboards — for informed, effective decision making.
  • Access Documents: automation, integration, storage and approvals are all brought together

Access Workspace professional edition brings together all the capabilities of a single digital workspace together with apps, analytics, collaboration and communication tools. Plus, it allows you to connect with other non-Access software systems, so you can blend third-party data into your systems... and see the full picture in one single view.

What Access Workspace delivers for us as an organisation is the ability to be a single workspace, a single log-on, which is much more person-centred and task driven.

Katie Lay, Assistant Director of ICT & Business Performance at Outlook Care.

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Speed up your financial processes with third-party integrations

Microsoft Office integrations

Improve efficiency, remove bottlenecks and give non-system users the information they need, when they need it. Process financial data, view and approve invoices, search for data, create reports, and much more.

  • Secure two-way integration: access and update data directly from Outlook, Word and Excel.
  • Safe and secure audit trail: see a comprehensive audit trail for all transactions, with secure user permissions.
  • Familiar Office interface: standard tasks are quicker and easier to carry out, but users still see the familiar Office interface. Here, they can view and approve invoices in Outlook, attach e-documents to account records from within Office and make bulk updates from Excel.

Microsoft Excel integrations

Create powerful, professional financial reports that deliver deeper insight and analysis, using Access inXL.

  • Smooth, secure integration: access and update financial data directly from Excel, with in-built rules protecting the integrity of auditable data and VAT information.
  • Rapid reports: create and build complex financial reports quickly and easily with the report writer and formula wizard.
  • Data analysis: query, filer and manipulate transaction data for easy analysis and modelling.
  • Flexible drill down: quickly drill down to original transactions and source data.
  • Report packs: create a professional report pack, with branded coversheet, contents page and page numbers, delivering key information to decision-makers.

We have never seen anything like AOI before, the facility to write back into the database via Excel makes updating stock pricing so quick – no one has anything like this!

David Kay, Director at Adlib

Access Digital Tax

Recognised by HMRC, Access Digital Tax can make sure you’re fully compliant.

  • Fully compatible: with HMRC’s Making Tax Digital System, the software allows you to digitally record and submit tax returns online, a requirement for all VAT-registered businesses.
  • Smooth operations: keeping your tax return data journey seamless, from accounting to invoice systems
  • Digital transfer: all data transfer between software, products or applications such as accounting and invoice systems used during the process of filing your VAT return to HMRC, must now be executed using a digital transfer or digital link.

Integrated credit control for an instant view of your business health

Industry-leading commercial credit information from Experian blends with your financial data to ​give you an instant view of your suppliers' financial health.

  • Quickly check new suppliers: commercial credit reports let verify supplier information and uncover any hidden financial or legal risks involved before making supplier decisions
  • Monitor existing suppliers: Business health dashboards give you early visibility of changes to a supplier's risk profile, so you monitor changes and mitigate business risk

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Integrated accounting software FAQs

What is integrated accounting software?

This can vary from simple accounting software that allows you to manage all your basic accounting needs in one place, through to solutions that are able to connect with other systems such as HR, or even third-party solutions and data sources.

Integrated accounting software that allows you to join together all of your systems data and people in one place makes it easy for people across your organisation to input data, action approvals, view relevant data and reports, saving time, improving efficiency and increasing accuracy across your organisation  

Access Financials is an integrated solution - it integrates with Excel, Microsoft office, Access Digital Tax, Access Expense, Access Analytics and Access Document. It also connects with Experian for company credit data to support your sales processing by giving you an instant view of a businesses health.  

What are the different features of integrated accounting software programs?

Integrated accounting software programs differ - between off the shelf and highly tailored solutions there are many programs to suit your individual business needs. At Access, with our financial management software we offer: 

  • Single sign-on – instant access to your data via a central platform anywhere, anytime 
  • Reporting and analytics - get a 360-degree view across your business with real time reports and dashboards. 
  • Excel integration – easily pull data in and out of the finance system without the need for manual rekeying. 
  • Procurement and purchase automation - easily manage costs and maximise profitability for your business. 
  • Project costing and timesheets - 24/7 access to timesheets via tablet or mobile 
  • Resource scheduling - get the best value from fee earning staff and minimise whitespace 
  • Reliable and secure – keeping your data safe against threats, data loss and leaks 

What’s more Access Financials can support your compliance with the latest UK regulations - including GDPR, digital tax and statutory reporting requirements. 

These are just some examples, to find out more why not watch our on demand product tour.

How do I integrate third-party systems with my finance software?

There are 7 steps to follow when integrating third-party systems with your finance software:

1. Identify the third-party systems

2. Determine the integration method

3. Identify the data to be exchanged

4. Develop the integration

5. Test the integration

6. Monitor the integration

7. Consider security and compliance requirements

Our article 7-steps checklist for integrated finance systems explains these steps in more detail as well as explaining the benefits of using an integrated finance system.

Which Access products does Access Financials integrate with?

Our finance software integrates with 10 Access products. They are:

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