Data conversion is important part of new accounting software implementation. It is good idea to limit the scope of migration project. Reasonable expectations are chart of accounts, master records such as customers, vendors, inventory items and plus GL beginning balances. There are situations when you have to do limited import of historical documents in sales and purchasing. In this small paper we will give you an idea on exporting records from outdated Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows or Macintosh:
1.GPA database overview, location and tables. First of all it is in Btrieve and it could be also deployed on Pervasive SQL 2000 32 bit. Pervasive Software in late 1990th acquired Btrieve Technologies and rebranded the product. Location of your company database is by default in GPS folder on the server where default company (if you have only one) is in GPDATA subfolder. This folder in its turn has subfolders where AR for example stays for Accounts Receivable and if you open this one then Cusmas.dat is apparently Customer Master table file
2.Exporting records from GPA. In our opinion one of the best options is Pervasive SQL Control Center.SAP Business OneData Transfer Workbench
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