Thanks, I visited SBT which is now AccPac.com. Requseted a trial copy of a package.

>As mentioned previously there are several packages written in VFP such as Visual Accountmate and SBT. With SBT you can get full source code. From what I understand with VAM you can get source to the forms and such, but not some of their base libraries.
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>ACCPAC is also mentioned here a lot. I've not used it, but I do know that it comes with an SDK.
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>Of course if you want to spend a few more bucks, there's Great Plains.
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>>>Almost every mid-level accounting package I have ever used has some hooks for developers to tie into.
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>>>Perry
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>>>>I got a pitch for Quick Books SDK in my e-mail today. We might get into this area at some point. We have a vertical app that doesn't claim to do accounting, but knows an awful lot about your receivables and wouldn't mind keying them in for you if your accounting software was inclined to let us.
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>>>>My question is this:
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>>>>What other low to mid price accounting packages provide some means for a programmer to enter data directly in and avoid double keying?
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>>Name me a few. I have become very frustrated trying to move beyond *.csv files to transfer data between a Fox app and Peachtree Accounting. DDE has been very limiting, and the program does not support OLE.
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>>Any ideas are much appreciated.