Connect Octopus to Bouwflow: your invoices to your accountant
With the Octopus integration, you send your sales and purchase invoices straight from Bouwflow to Octopus. Your accountant handles them in Octopus accounting software, and nobody has to retype an invoice.
What is Octopus?
Octopus is a 100% Belgian online accounting package that has been around for over twenty years. More than 2,500 accountancy firms and entrepreneurs use it: invoicing, bookkeeping, document management and bank reconciliation sit on a single platform where the accountant and client work together. Octopus was also the first Belgian accounting software to connect to the Peppol network, so you send and receive electronic invoices there without detours.
For a contractor that is handy, because you do not have to make your accountant switch software. If they work in Octopus accounting software, Bouwflow slots right in: you manage your sites, projects and invoices in Bouwflow, your accountant processes them in Octopus.
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 Octopus 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 Octopus integration in Bouwflow work?
You connect Octopus once in Bouwflow. After that you send your invoices through whenever it suits you, and your accountant finds them in Octopus.
How Bouwflow plugs into your accountant- You activate the integration in Bouwflow under Settings, Integrations, so your invoices can flow through to Octopus.
- Your sales and purchase invoices are sent from Bouwflow through the Accountant module, with Octopus as the destination.
- You decide which invoices and which period you send, so your accountant receives everything neatly in one go.
- The invoices arrive as structured data in Octopus instead of as loose pdfs by email, ready for your accountant to process.
Why contractors use Octopus with Bouwflow
No typing invoices twice
You draw up your invoices in Bouwflow, based on your quotes, work orders and progress statements. With the integration they then land in Octopus, without anyone having to retype them.
Your accountant keeps working in Octopus
Octopus is a fully Belgian package used by thousands of accountancy firms. With the integration you do not have to make your accountant switch software: they receive your invoices in the place they already know.
Sales and purchase in the same flow
Not only your sales invoices, but also your purchase invoices from suppliers and subcontractors go along to Octopus. That gives your accountant a complete picture of your site.
Ready for electronic invoicing
Octopus was the first Belgian accounting software on Peppol. Your invoices are sent as structured data, so you are immediately in line with the electronic invoicing that is mandatory in Belgium.
Fewer errors, less back and forth
Because the invoices are sent as structured data instead of as pdfs and emails, fewer typos slip in and you need less back and forth with your accountant.
