Microsoft Dynamics GP is open to ecommerce programmers and web site developers via SDK, named eConnect. eConnect is bound to the rules of Great Plains Dynamics architecture, which require you first to create work document (Sales Order or Sales Invoice, these are likely to be created from ecommerce shopping cart), then you place it to the batch and, yes – you simply wait until this batch is approved by GP user at the back office end
At this point we expect your disappointment, as you would like, as ecommerce programmer to get higher level of control and push invoice all the way through, meaning that you would like Sales batch to be posted automatically from your ecommerce application. Let’s review your options:
1. Calling native Microsoft Dexterity procedures. If you have deep experience in Great Plains Dexterity programming in the past, and if you are familiar with GP source code programming, then you may decide to spend several hundred of Dex programming and debugging hours to tune Dex routine, which will be running in the customized Great Plains workstation mode and catching your eConnect batch posting event. This is just in case, and for the rest of us
2. Batch Automatic Posting Server, coming from Alba Spectrum, also referred as Autopost. Our programmer did the work, described in #1 for you and all you need to do as web developer is to specify batch in staging table, as ready to be posted. Autopost covers all the modules in GP (with some reservations, if you are trying to post batches in Great Plains Add-Ons or custom modules): GL, SOP, RM, PM, Payroll, Inventory, Purchase Order Processing (EDI scenarios)
3. Autopost troubleshooting. If you already have Alba Spectrum Posting Server deployed in your organization, please read these lines, before calling to Alba Spectrum customer support. Autopost works in GP user security realm and you consume one dedicated user for eConnect Batch Posting Server. Please, be sure, that this user has security rights to Post batches in the modules, where you deploy Autopost. This is especially important for Dynamics GP version 10.0. Autopost is also available for GP 8.0 and 9.0. It is unlikely, that you are programming eConnect for Great Plains 8.0
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