With AccountLinx, you can export your employees' time data from ExakTime Connect into a compatible file for Maxwell American Contractor. As Maxwell was acquired by Viewpoint and discontinued American Contractor, this resource is kept for reference for anyone still using American Contractor, but this does not guarantee that AccountLinx will continue to work with American Contractor in the future.

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 Maxwell support. We will try to help you as much as we can, but there are aspects of Maxwell that are out of our area of expertise.

Selecting Maxwell 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 "Maxwell Timekeeper" and click OK.

AccountLinx Setting Unique to Maxwell

The Maxwell 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 the settings offered do not sound familiar, you may not be using the setting in Maxwell and can leave it as <None>. 

1. Go to Tools and click Exporter Settings.... 
2. The Exporter Settings window should open. Click Configure....
   • Map Change Order Number to - Specify which entity the change order number should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
   • GL Account to - Specify which entity the GL account should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
   • WC Code to - Specify which entity the WC code should be associated with. The related mapping screen will have additional fields for you to complete.
3. Click OK on the Configuration window and click OK on the Exporter Settings window to return to the main page of AccountLinx.
4. 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 Maxwell in the previous section, you will need to:

• Map your entities so any time data associated with an ExakTime entity will match with an Maxwell 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 to import into Maxwell. Refer to the following article if you are unfamiliar with exporting time data from AccountLinx.

How to Import Time Data into Maxwell

1. Go to the Workforce option from American Contractor.
2. Go to Documents and go to Payroll Timecard Entry.
3. Click Add Batch (or edit an existing batch record).
4. Enter in your Payroll information. Click Save.
5. Click Import.
6. Double-click Timecard Import Wizard.
7. Select "ASCII/Text Import.txt" as your Source Type. Click ... next to File Name and locate the .txt file you exported from AccountLinx. Click Open.
8. Review the Payroll Timecard Import Wizard. Make sure the OK column is green for all records. Click Next.
9. Click Finish.
10. Click OK and the import is complete.