Synchronising Clients, Users, Jobs and Tax Returns with MYOB Practice Management (formerly GreatSoft)

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When FYI is integrated with MYOB Practice Management (formerly GreatSoft), your Clients, Jobs (which are synced from MYOB PM Tasks) and Users (synced from MYOB PM Employees) are imported from MYOB PM and continuously synchronised with FYI.

The sync from MYOB PM to FYI happens every 15 minutes.

This ensures that MYOB PM continues to be your single source of truth for client information.

Synchronisation Summary

The following is a summary of when the event and changes in MYOB PM are synced.

Note: ABNs and TFNs are not synchronised to FYI. Practices should set these up as UDFs in MYOB PM, so that they sync to FYI as Custom Fields. Refer to UDFs for more information.

  Event in MYOB PM
 
Automatic Sync Manual Sync
 
Notes
 
Clients Create or Edit

 
Every 15 minutes All Users In FYI, clients synced from MYOB PM show the Source as "MYOB PM".
Salutation Create or Edit Every 15 minutes All Users  
Archived Clients Close Client Every 15 minutes All Users Client is Archived in FYI
Client Groups Create, Edit or Delete

 
Every 15 minutes All Users  
Client Addresses Create, Edit, Delete Every 15 minutes All Users Only the Postal and Physical Addresses are synced to FYI.
Currently, if these are text boxes in MYOB PM, they are not synced to FYI and this will be corrected in a future release.
Client Contacts   Create, Edit

 
Every 15 minutes All Users Deleted Client Contacts are not synced.

Client Custom Fields

(Client UDF)

Create, Edit Every 15 minutes  All Users  
Client Custom Field values selected for a Client Add, Edit or Delete Every 15 minutes All users
Sync from PM button in Client - Custom Fields
 
Users Create or Edit Every 15 minutes FYI Admins  
Users    Delete Deleted Users are not synced. No action in FYI
(User needs to be made Inactive in FYI) 
No action in FYI
(User needs to be made Inactive in FYI) 
Jobs Create or Edit Every 15 minutes All Users Synced from MYOB PM Tasks (excluding Deleted)
Job States       N/A - refer to Job States
Jobs Category

 
      N/A

Jobs Custom Field

(Job UDF)

Create or Edit  Every 15 minutes All Users  
Job Custom Field values selected for a Job Add, Edit or Delete Every 15 minutes All users
Job Sync button on the Job - Summary tab
 
Tasks for Jobs       Not applicable for MYOB PM
Tax Returns
 
Create or Edit in Xero Tax Overnight FYI Admins  

For information on running a Manual Sync and for additional notes on syncing, refer to Running a Manual Sync with MYOB Practice Management (formerly GreatSoft) and Additional Notes on Syncing.

Synchronisation Frequency

When FYI is integrated with MYOB PM, your Clients, Jobs (which are synced from MYOB PM Tasks) and Users (synced from MYOB PM Employees) are imported from MYOB PM and continuously synchronised with FYI.

The sync from MYOB PM to FYI happens every 15 minutes. Refer to the table below for what data is synced. No data is synced from FYI to MYOB PM.

The Sync occurs in the following ways:

Automatic Sync

A sync from MYOB PM to FYI occurs automatically every 15 minutes.

Manual Sync

The steps required to perform a manual synchronisation will vary depending on the permissions of the user.

FYI Admins Standard Users

An FYI Admin can run a sync from the Greatsoft app in FYI for:

  • Clients
  • Jobs
  • Users

Refer to Running a Manual Sync with MYOB Practice Management (formerly GreatSoft) and Additional Notes on Syncing.

Synchronisation Details

Sync from FYI

No data is synced from FYI to MYOB PM.

Clients

Clicking the Open in PM icon in the Client - Summary, opens the client in MYOB PM.

Client Groups

A Client in MYOB PM can also be used as a Client Group.

In FYI currently, when filing documents under a Client Group where the Group is also the Client, it is not possible to see the Jobs of that Client at the Group level. 

UDFs

Client and Job UDFs (User Defined Fields) in MYOB PM are synced to FYI as Custom Fields. These can also be used as Merge Fields. 

Note: ABNs and TFNs are not synchronised to FYI. Practices should set these up as UDFs in MYOB PM, so that they sync to FYI as Custom Fields. Refer to Managing Custom Fields, Including Merge Fields in Email Templates and Signatures and Including Merge Fields in Word Templates and Stationery.

Jobs

  • Jobs are synced from Tasks in MYOB PM.
  • Jobs synced from MYOB PM do not have a Due Date.
  • The Open in PM icon in the Job drawer is not relevant for MYOB PM.
  • Deleted Jobs in MYOB PM are not supported; Jobs will need to be manually marked as Cancelled in FYI.

Job States

  • There are no states in the MYOB PM tasks, so no Job States are synced to FYI.
  • Jobs initially sync to FYI with a job state of "Planned".
  • If a task in MYOB PM has a Closed Date, it will appear in FYI with the Job State set as "Completed".
  • The Closed Date in the MYOB PM task displays in the Due Date in the FYI Job.
  • Jobs are also allocated a Job State according to the Allow Time/Expense Capture indicator in MYOB PM.
    • If Allow Time/Expense Capture is ticked in MYOB PM and there is no Closed Date, the Job in FYI is set with the Job State as "In Progress".
    • If Allow Time/Expense Capture is unticked in MYOB PM and there is no Closed Date, the Job in FYI is set with the Job State as "Planned".
  • When a Job is "Complete" in MYOB PM, the Job State will be set as "Complete" in FYI.
  • When a Job is "Pending" in MYOB PM, the Job State will be set as "Pending" in FYI.
  • If a Job is "In Progress" in MYOB PM and "Complete" or "Planned" in FYI then the Job State will be set as "In Progress" in FYI.
  • If a Job is "In Progress" in FYI, and it is not "Complete" or "Planned" in MYOB PM, then the Job State is not changed in FYI.

Time in FYI

As no information is synced from FYI to MYOB PM, Time in FYI is not relevant for an account integrated with MYOB PM.

Users

New users synchronised to FYI will be created with a Status of either Active or Inactive, depending on the New Users setting selected in Practice Settings. An FYI Admin can update the user status in Practice Settings.

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