>>Does anybody have any knowledge or experience with interfacing Foxpro with Peachtree accounting package? Actually, any feature-rich, Windows-based, simple-to-use, multi-user, CHEAP, and most importantly, Foxpro interfaceable off-the-shelf accounting package will do nicely. Yes, I know I'm asking a lot, especially with the word "CHEAP" in there.
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>>I've tried to build a simple accounting package myself for my smaller clients that have special needs most off-the-shelf packages don't provide but found it too time-consuming to actually finish one. All of the customizable Foxpro-based accounting packages are too expensive, even w/o source for some very small clients that I have. Anyway, most don't need "100 page feature list package" and can get by with just the basics but always have one or two aspects of accounting they want to customize.
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>>The reason I brought up Peachtree is that it fits all aspects of what I want except I don't know how hard it is to interface with a Foxpro-based application and data.
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>>TIA
>>John.
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>I have integrated Peachtree 4.0 and FoxPro, but not directly. Peacthree has a nice customizable export utility, which I used to export the data into CSV files, then imported into FoxPro. A kludge, but worked OK.
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>Peachtree uses DDE to talk to other applications, so it may be possible to link them. It just looked like too much work.
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>Peachtree's pretty good all around, but you're in for trouble if your users need any custom reports. Their utility makes FoxPro's report writer look good.

Darren.
Thanks for your input. Although my case would be little different same type of problems exist. I need to import INTO Peachtree FROM Foxpro and I need to probably do this constantly (at least once a day like batch mode). I will look into Peachtree's use of DDE (kind of an old technology isn't it???) and see how much work is needed. Anyway, the search continues...

John.