Connect Exact Online to Bouwflow: your invoices straight to the bookkeeping
With the Exact Online integration you send your sales and purchase invoices straight from Bouwflow to Exact Online. Your accountant carries on in the package they already know, and nobody has to type an invoice a second time.
What is Exact Online?
Exact Online is cloud software for accounting and business management from Exact, one of the best-known software companies in the Benelux. Accountants and small businesses use it every day for their bookkeeping, VAT returns, invoicing and reporting, with separate modules for stock, projects and production.
In Belgium and the Netherlands, Exact Online is a fixture in accounting firms: many bookkeepers enter their clients' figures straight into Exact Online. For a contractor that is handy, because you do not have to make your accountant switch packages. With the Exact Online integration, Bouwflow fits into that way of working: you manage your job sites, your projects and your invoices in Bouwflow, and your accountant processes them in Exact Online.
What is Bouwflow?
Bouwflow is ERP software for construction contractors. From one place you manage your job sites, calculations, quotes, work orders, materials and the communication with your accountant. More than a thousand construction professionals use Bouwflow to run their project admin faster and more clearly.
The Exact Online integration you see on this page is one of our direct connections to the tools you already use as a contractor, from your accounting and your bank to your calendar.
How does the Exact Online integration work in Bouwflow?
You connect Exact Online once in Bouwflow. After that you send your invoices over whenever it suits you, and your accountant finds them back in Exact Online.
How Bouwflow plugs into your accountant- You activate the connection in Bouwflow under Settings, Integrations and set the right Exact Online administration once.
- You send your sales and purchase invoices from Bouwflow through the Accountant module, with Exact Online as the destination.
- The invoices land in Exact Online with the VAT codes and ledger accounts your accountant uses, ready to process.
- The connection works in one direction, from Bouwflow to Exact Online. What you invoice in Bouwflow is the starting point.
- You decide which invoices and which period you send, so your accountant receives everything neatly in one go.
Why contractors use Exact Online with Bouwflow
No typing invoices twice
You draw up your invoices in Bouwflow, based on your quotes, work orders and progress statements. With the connection they then land in Exact Online, without anyone having to retype them.
Your accountant stays on Exact Online
Plenty of accounting firms run on Exact Online. With the connection you do not have to make your accountant switch packages: they receive your invoices in the place they already know.
Sales and purchases in the same flow
Not only your sales invoices, but also your purchase invoices from suppliers and subcontractors go over to Exact Online. That gives your accountant a complete picture of your job site.
Your project admin stays the starting point
In Bouwflow every invoice is tied to the right project, the right customer and the right job site. What you send to Exact Online starts from those same correct figures.
Fewer mistakes, less back-and-forth
Because the invoices flow over as structured data rather than as pdfs and emails, fewer typos slip in and you need less back-and-forth with your accountant.
Frequently asked questions about the Exact Online integration
Let your invoices flow through to your bookkeeping.
Bouwflow is the project software for construction contractors. With the Exact Online integration your invoicing flows smoothly through to your accountant, without double work. Book a no-strings call and together we'll see if it fits your construction business.
