Accelero Met

ACCELERO MET

Migrating from Intuit Quickbooks 2003 to 2013
Sales staff using dated Microsoft Access 2005 utility to track billable and non-billable expenses, credit card transactions, and employee timesheets.
The Microsoft Access utility, while efficient, did not provide any layers of authentication or user permissions.
Intuit Quickbooks 2013 would no longer allow for interoperability with Microsoft Access
Making firewall changes to their corporate office to allow outside access to their Quickbooks application would not be acceptable.
Accelero had additional,small, requirements to bring their accounting tasks up-to-date

With a copy of the Microsoft Access utility, Savvior wireframed a modern web UI to mimic the functionality of the Microsoft Access utility while maintaining web usability standards and incorporating new functionality such as user notifications and PDF exportability.
The application, named 'MET', was built on a modern MVC framework that abstracts key functionality to enable it to be run on most popular server configurations.
Employees were given unique logins with administrator-configurable permissions so only users with the proper permissions could see all records entered, approve expenses and weekly timesheets, and add additional users or expense categories.
Expenses and credit card transactions are exportable to Quickbooks in a flat-file, downloadable by application administrators through their web client.

Accelero was able to successfully migrate to Quickbooks 2013 with little-to-no complaints from their sales staff.
Data from their existing Microsoft Access utility was imported into the MET application developed by Savvior, allowing for historical reporting and auditing.
In the future, Accelero will be able to regularly upgrade their Quickbooks version without having to worry about how they collect expense entries from their sales staff.