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Developer and Technical Information

Automation Overview

MoneyWorks is the ideal back-office solution for your accounting needs. Find out how to integrate MoneyWorks with your own software systems.

MoneyWorks is extensible. This means that developers can add additional functionality using applications such as Visual Basic, FileMaker Pro, MS Office, Perl, AppleScript, Delphi, Access etc, with MoneyWorks acting as an integrated back-office accounting solution.

This means that you, as a developer, can focus on the special needs of your clients or application. You can 'hook' your software into MoneyWorks to submit or extract accounting information, enhancing functionality for your clients. If you've developed your own application, you'll be able to promote it to a wider audience, resulting in more sales.

Windows COM and VB

On Windows, MoneyWorks supports COM (the technology that underpins OLE Automation and VB). So from another COM compliant application (such as Access, Word, Excel, VB) you can easily extract and submit records to the MoneyWorks internal databases.

Information on the COM commands (and simple examples) are contained in the MoneyWorks Automation Guide.

Applescript

On Mac, MoneyWorks supports AppleEvents. This enables you to write scripts in AppleScript to manipulate data from MoneyWorks, or link MoneyWorks seamlessly to FileMaker Pro, Excel, RealBasic and other applications.

Information on the AppleEvents (and simple examples) are contained in the MoneyWorks Automation Guide.

 

FileMaker Pro/Go

For FileMaker developers, we have prepared a plug-in that allows seamless integration between Filemaker Pro and MoneyWorks (running on the same computer). From your customised FileMaker Pro front end you can extract information directly from MoneyWorks, and also send information (invoices, orders, time sheets etc) directly to MoneyWorks. There are script compatible plug-ins for Windows and Mac.

FileMaker Go provides an easy way for direct access to your MoneyWorks Datacentre from iPads and iPhones, even when out of the office.

For samples and documentation see the FileMaker Pro/Go and MoneyWorks page

Microsoft Office

MoneyWorks also integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office. To see how to do a mailmerge straight into Word, send your budgets direct from Excel to MoneyWorks, automatically apply interest and more, click here. (requires Office 2000 or later).

CLI

MoneyWorks Gold 5.0.8 and later has a command line interface. For documentation see the manual page, or on Mac you can use x-man-page://moneyworks (after installing MoneyWorks Gold)

REST

MoneyWorks Datacentre 6.1 and later has a REST interface, which provides easy high-performance network-based access to the standard MoneyWorks API.

Perl

A third party Perl script is available from here. It uses the Command Line Interface to talk directly to MoneyWorks Datacentre, and is a great starting point for Perl programmers who want to hook up an ecommerce site to MoneyWorks.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us.