Description
Integrate Visma Business and Severa to transfer your employees, customers, projects, work hours, invoices and costs between the two systems. Manage your projects in Severa and create invoice drafts, which will then be sent to Visma Business to be delivered to customers and stored in accounting. Supplier invoices can also be imported from Visma Business to Severa as project costs.
In the integration settings you define the so-called "master" system that controls how data is updated for projects and regular products. By default, updates are transferred only from the master system to the other system. However, new data can be created in both systems and transferred to the other. The behavior is controlled by three separate settings: Master, CaseMaster (for projects) and ProductMaster (for regular products). If CaseMaster or ProductMaster are not defined separately, they follow the value of the main Master setting. It is important to note that there is no master setting for users/employees or customers; their data is always updated in both directions.
What is integrated and how
Business units
Business units/departments are used for reporting purposes. Every user, project and invoice is connected to a business unit, which means that company reporting can be done from various angles.
Business units in Severa are connected with an organizational unit selected for departments in Visma Business. Business units are integrated both ways, from Severa to Visma Business and vice versa. In Visma Business, there is a possibility to prevent certain business units from transferring. Existing business units are connected based on their name and number/code.
Employees
Users in Severa are connected as employees in Visma Business. All users from Severa will be transferred to Visma Business, and from Visma Business, those employees who have an email address, will be transferred to Severa. Existing users are connected based on their name and number/code. There is no master setting for employee data, so updates to existing data are always synchronized in both directions.
Product registry
Regular products and travel expenses in Severa are connected with the product registry in Visma Business. Product synchronization is controlled by the ProductMaster setting. The system defined as the master can both create new regular products and update existing regular products to the other system. The other ("non-master") system can only create new regular products in the master system, but cannot update data that already exists there.
Work types in Severa are not transferred in normal synchronization. They are created in Visma Business when needed, when they are included on an invoice or cost that is transferred in the integration. Product categories can also be synchronized if the ShouldTransferProductCategories setting is enabled, and this synchronization is controlled by the ProductMaster setting. In Visma Business, there is a possibility to prevent certain regular products from transferring.
Customers
Invoices and projects are created for customers, and integration helps you also keep the contacts & addresses up-to-date. Customers in Severa are connected as customers in Visma Business. Only customers with projects in Won status are transferred from Severa to Visma Business, whereas all customers from Visma Business are transferred to Severa. With customers, also addresses and contacts are transferred. There is no master setting for customer data, so updates to existing data are always synchronized in both directions.
In Visma Business, customer can have only one billing address, so if customer has many addresses in Severa, other addresses will become delivery addresses in Visma Business. Important to know is that Visma Business always rules the customer numbering, so before starting the integration, if there are customers in both systems, those should be checked, so that same customers have same numbers in both systems. In Visma Business, there is a possibility to prevent certain customers from transferring. Existing customers are connected based on their name and number.
Projects
Projects are managed in Severa and used for reporting purposes in Visma Business. Each invoice and cost is connected to a project and employees report hours and travels to projects.
Projects in Severa are connected with an organizational unit selected for projects in Visma Business. From Severa, only those projects that have Won sales status are transferred to Visma Business. Project synchronization is controlled by the CaseMaster setting. The system defined as the master can both create new projects and update existing projects to the other system. The other ("non-master") system can only create new projects in the master system, but cannot update data that already exists there. In Visma Business, there is a possibility to prevent certain projects from transferring. Existing projects are connected based on their name and number. Case status is not synced (Open/Closed).
Work hours
Work hour entries are used for reporting purposes in Visma Business. With the detailed information about each entry you can for example recognize revenue in Visma Business.
Work hours from Severa are transferred into one of the Free information tables in the "Variables". Only approved work hours are transferred. When hours will be billed, the hours in Visma Business are updated with the order number.
Invoices
Invoice drafts are created in Severa. Integration transfers invoices from selected status into Visma Business as orders. Once orders are made as invoices in Visma Business and sent to customers, the invoice status is updated in Severa as sent. When customer pays the invoice, the invoice status is updated in Severa as paid. Integration doesn't transfer attachments.
Purchase orders
When purchase invoice is connected to a project in Visma Business, it is transferred into Severa as project costs. You can define, if the purchase orders are also billable from Severa, or if they are only costs. These costs are displayed in the Fees & other expenses section of a case. You can limit only certain types of costs to transfer.
How to start using
- Go through existing data in both systems with the help of checklist.
- Enable Visma Business add-on from the wheel icon under Subscription >Integrations > Visma Business.
- Download the integration software from support portal (you need to select a version that matches your Visma Business edition).
- Install the integration software to the server where Visma Business is running.
- Set up integration. Check out video from Youtube for how integration is set up. The video is 50 minutes long.
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