Introduction

Centralise your accounts payable process with Duplo by syncing bills from other accounting packages seamlessly. With Duplo, you can integrate and reconcile both partially paid and unpaid bills from various accounting platforms. This will help you save time and effort on manual data entry while ensuring more accurate and up-to-date records.

In this article, we will cover the different accounting packages you can integrate with Duplo, How to Sync Bills and the Reconciliation of Bills.

1. Accounting Packages: We’ve listed some of the tasks you can typically perform on each accounting package below.

   Table Guide:

   • Push: This shows you the data you can push from Duplo to that accounting package.

   • Pull: This shows you the data you can pull from that accounting package into Duplo.

   • Update: Any information pulled from an accounting package will be updated by clicking on “Sync Bill” on Duplo.

   • Yes: This means it is supported by the accounting package.

   • No: This means it is not supported by the accounting package.

   • Not Available: This means you can not perform the action on the integrated software.
     
     
     
     

     Features	Functionality	Quickbooks Desktop	Quickbooks Online	Zoho Books	Xero
     Bills	Pull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Update	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     Bill Payment	Pull	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Update	No	No	No	No
     Bill Attachment	Pull	Not Available	Yes	Not Available	Yes
     	Push	Not Available	Yes	Not Available	Yes
     	Update	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
     Invoice	Pull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Update	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     Invoice Attachment	Pull	Not Available	Yes	Not Available	Yes
     	Push	Not Available	Yes	Not Available	Yes
     	Update	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
     Invoice Items	Pull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     	Update	No	No	No	No
     Suppliers	Pull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     	Update	Yes	No	No	Yes
     Customers	Pull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
     	Push	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
     	Update	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

     
     
     

2. Syncing Bills: Syncing bills from other accounting packages to Duplo offers the advantage of centralizing your accounts payable process in one platform.

   Syncing Bill requires 2 major steps;

   • First Step: Setting up your Accounting Package

     1. Click on Apps on the dashboard menu.

     2. A page, like the one below will show, click on Connect Business.
        
        

        
        

     3. Select the accounting package you want to connect to your business.

     4. Click on the checkbox Bill synced should be automatically approved if you want the approval workflow to be applied to the bills synced from the accounting package into Duplo. Just as shown below;
        
        

        
        

     5. You will get a success message as shown below;
        
        

        
        

     6. Click on “this link” on the success message to authorise the connection between the accounting package and Duplo. OR you can click on “Okay” to authorise later.

     7. Once the connection is successful, the status of that accounting software will change to “Installed” as shown below;
        
        

        
        

        You’ve completed step one.

   • Second Step: Syncing the Bills

     1. Click on Bills on the dashboard menu.

     2. Click on Sync Bills as shown below;
        
        

        
        

     3. If Bills are successfully synced, you will see Bills pulled from your chosen accounting package now.

Great job! You have activated the Sync Bill feature.

3. Bills Reconciliation: There is no need for manual reconciliation. Duplo has done the work for you as our platform automatically reconciles partially and fully paid bills on your behalf.

There’s one more feature to get familiarized with on automated accounts payable, which is, how to pay bills synced into Duplo. To learn more about this click here

Frequently Asked Questions

• Why can’t I access other accounting packages?
  • Currently, you can only connect one accounting package to a business per time.
    
    
• I would like to connect to a different accounting package not listed. Can you assist me?
  • You can comment directly to Quickbooks online, Quickbooks dashboard, Zohobooks, Xero from your dashboard. However, if you would like to connect to another accounting package not listed here, please send an email to [email protected]