MS Access and Peachtree-Cheque Writing

[jasonvalley]

I am a programmer and I am developing a solution fo rmy company using Microsot Access 2000. All my transactions and calculations anre done in Access, I however need to print cheques to make payments and I was told that it should not be done in Access but in a program that already handles cheque writing, namely peachtree. We are using Complete Accounting 8.0. I am reading the User's Guide and so far what I have gathered is that I have to set up a company and then import the cheque data that I would need to use. I was hoping that you guys, being peachtree experts and all, would be able to assist me in doing this right, properly and quickly.

Thanks
jasonvalley@yahoo.com

[dringstrom]

If you're handling all of your other transactions in Access, I really see no need to involve Peachtree. There's nothing wrong with printing checks from Access...indeed there are several Access-based accounting packages on the market.

[Robert Walraven]

If you are using PT V8 for your accounting, all you need to do from Access is add a Cash Disbursements record to Peachtree. This could be done with the DDE interface, but you might find it easier to use PawCom, which is a programmable interface to Peachtree including an Access front end with lots of sample code.

You can download a demo kit of Pawcom at http://www.multiwareinc.com/pawcom.htm.

Bob Walraven
Architect of PawCom