Client

Our client is a Real Estate Company based in Austin, Texas.  They have built a successful business around creative real estate.  They provide a number of services to help their investor agents close deals more effectively, from short sale processing, to mentoring.  They pride themselves on the flexibility they can offer to their agents, unlike more traditional real estate firms.

Problem

Our client was already using Kashoo but was manually copying data from one system to the other, wasting a lot of time in the process.  We provided the tools to let them automate imports and exports between the two systems. They had been using an extensive custom internal back-office application written on the LAMP stack which needed to be integrated with Kashoo Simple Cloud Accounting.  LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Together, they provide a proven set of software for delivering high-performance web applications, and Kashoo enables you to achieve the customization you need with detailed reporting, a simple user interface, and all the functionality of an accountant without the complications from the actual accounting process. Take it as a way to simplify your accounting needs. They were hoping to transition from something complicated into something simpler to handle their accounting needs.

Solution

We provided a library to make it easy to talk to the Kashoo API.  This allowed them to build functionality into their custom back-office management system to send and receive sales data between their accounting system (Kashoo), and the back-office system.

We want to thank our clients for their generosity in giving us permission to share the scripts for free on GitHub, we don’t normally take the code you paid for and give it away to everyone else for free.  You can take a look and try to modify them for your needs here: https://github.com/eimajenthat/kashoo-php

Results

This integration was a first step in simplifying what was originally a complicated system with a lot of manual data entry. It has enabled their team to work more efficiently on their tasks and has gotten rid of the worry of committing accounting errors.