Microsoft Dynamics GP provides the Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP for external applications to integrate with the data contained in the Microsoft Dynamics GP. eConnect acts as the middle engine internally to do the integration and business rules enforcement, therefore it provides an additional reliability to the Web Services tool.

The Web Services tool can help if you are using General Ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Project Accounting, Fixed Assets and many other modules. You just need to provide the correct interface, data types and format of documents, and an interface can be created with programming tools like Visual Basic and C#.

This tool is ideal for doing web access like a web page to for Salespersons of the company to enter orders, or employee of the company to enter their time card every day. The Web services use standard Internet transport protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and standard XML-based document formats such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to exchange information. Therefore it is always web access ready.

There are many external data sources like Excel, Access, text, web data, point-of-sale systems, or legacy application data can be interfaced with Dynamics GP. The external applications can perform actions like creating, updating, retrieving, and deleting documents and transactions in Dynamics GP. Internally, it uses eConnect and XML documents for communications and data conversion, business rules are enforced at the same time. An XML schema specifies the data that is included in each type of XML document.

All Great Plains or Dynamics GP windows and reports are ready to customize, you can use modifiers to change the appearances or values. If more advanced modification or customization is needed then VBA, Dexterity, Visual Studio Sdk are there to help. Great Plains has been in the accounting software marketing for many years, and it is one of the first software to convert to Windows environment from DOS. It is also one of the first accounting software to include the .Net in its tools, so the software has always been trying to be on top what are new with computers and operating systems.