With AccountLinx, you can export your employees' time data from ExakTime Connect directly into Sage BusinessVision. As BusinessVision may be customized to fit your company's needs, it is possible that the default AccountLinx export for BusinessVision will not match your BusinessVision setup exactly. Please read through this article before setting up AccountLinx to understand what is needed ahead of time.

If you have any questions or concerns during setup and/or use, you can contact us with the "Request Support" link at the top of the page and we will try to assist as best as possible. Keep in mind, however, that we are not BusinessVision support. We will try to help you as much as we can, but there are aspects of BusinessVision that are out of our area of expertise and your questions may be better answered by BusinessVision support or your trusted contact to answer/assist.

Selecting BusinessVision as your Exporter

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Select Exporter.... 
3. A window with a list of available exporters should open. Select "BusinessVision" and click OK. You may receive a warning that the BusinessVision connection is not available if you have not connected the applications before.
4. Click Configure to configure any required and optional settings.
5. Click Connect to BusinessVision.
6. In the DSN field, select the name of your BusinessVision database.
7. In the Driver field, select Pervasive ODBC Client Interface.
8. Click Save. Set up any additional fields/settings for the exporter.

AccountLinx Settings Unique to BusinessVision

The BusinessVision export for AccountLinx offers a variety of settings when exporting your time data to help tailor the time data to your company's needs. These settings are unique to AccountLinx and will not affect ExakTime Connect or Mobile. If any of the settings offered do not sound familiar to you, you may not be using the setting in BusinessVision and can leave it as <None>. 

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Configure....
3. The Configuration window should open. You should see the following options:
   
   • Last Pay Period End Date per Pay Frequency
     • 52 Periods - Weekly Pay - Enter the last pay period end date (MM-DD-YYYY format) of the pay frequency.
     • 26 Periods - Bi-Weekly Pay - Enter the last pay period end date (MM-DD-YYYY format) of the pay frequency.
   • Optional Pay Type Matching
     • Vacation Pay Type - Specify the cost code that should be used for vacation pay types.
     • Sick Pay Type - Specify the cost code that should be used for sick pay types.
     • X-Other Pay Type - Specify the cost code that should be used for X-Other pay types.
4. Click OK on the Configuration window and click OK on the Exporter Settings window to return to the main page of AccountLinx.
5. Click the appropriate "Map Employee/Location/Cost Code" option to see the columns from the options enabled in Step 3.

General Use of AccountLinx

After setting up the configuration of AccountLinx to better match BusinessVision in the previous section, you will need to:

• Map your entities so any time data associated with an ExakTime entity will match with an BusinessVision entity and fill in any relevant fields enabled in the previous section. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with mapping your data in AccountLinx.
• After mapping your entities, you can export your time data directly into BusinessVision. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with exporting time data from AccountLinx.

How to Import Time Data into BusinessVision

It is recommended to consult with BusinessVision for assistance with reviewing the time data as they are more knowledgeable of their best practices. 

Please note that AccountLinx cannot tell BusinessVision to calculate the payroll taxes and withholdings, and that once the import is completed, this must be done inside of BusinessVision for each employee. Simply select the Employee for the proper period in the TimeCard screen and click Total to have BusinessVision complete the calculations.