As an accountant, it’s likely you use various software packages to speed up task completion to help ensure compliance and improve overall productivity. However, with so many software applications and excel sheets open, your computer screen can quickly become cluttered. This can result in the exact opposite of your goal - you end up losing time, making mistakes and becoming irritated.  However, this doesn’t have to be the case.   

As the objective of using software packages is to save you time, it can be frustrating when these systems cannot directly communicate with each other. Thankfully, accounting software packages are continuing to evolve, and are creating integrations with a range of platforms. Integrating your payroll and accounting software has become very popular as streamlining the accounting and payroll workflow can lead to many benefits.  

With the help of API integration, cloud accounting software, Surf Accounts can now communicate seamlessly with Thesaurus Payroll Manager. API stands for Application Programming Interface and allows the transfer and sharing of data between two software packages. This allows users of Thesaurus Payroll Manager to transfer payroll data directly to Surf Accounts at the click of a button.  

Integrations help form many solutions for accountants.  

Elimination of double entry  

Manually transferring figures from your payroll software to your accounting platform is prone to mistakes, such as inputting an incorrect figure in the wrong place. When this happens, not only do you have to fix the mistake but locating the error can waste a significant amount of time. Once found, you must begin to correct the error and ensure it hasn’t impacted any other data. It is difficult to predict exactly how long double entry mistakes take to amend. 

Did you know the average worker spends on average 4hrs 38 minutes per day working on duplicate tasks?  

Thankfully, an integration between your payroll and accounting software can speed up this process and ensure accuracy. Your payroll data from Thesaurus Payroll Manager can be simply transferred directly into Surf Accounts. The system will also remember where your payroll data should be placed in your online accounting software, meaning there is no need to manually map to a specific journal each time you are transferring data.  

Speed up task completion 

With this easy-to-use integration between Thesaurus Payroll Manager and Surf Accounts, you will also be able to speed up the time it takes to complete tasks. The process can be completed with the simple click of a button, which can allow you to spend more time on other important tasks. You will have the capacity to complete more tasks for your clients in a single day and may even be able to add more clients or services to your practice.  

The Surf Accounts and Thesaurus Payroll Manager integration offers many benefits and solutions to problems faced by both accountants and payroll processors. The communication between the two systems allows direct transfer of payroll information into your cloud accounting software.  

If you would like to view a step-by-step guide on the process of transferring data from Thesaurus Payroll Manager into Surf Accounts, click here.  

If you would you like a more in-depth look into our cloud-based accounting software, Surf Accounts, you can book a free online one-to-one demo of the software and learn more about the key accounting solutions and other beneficial integrations the software has to offer.