Extending Locations in MYOB Acumatica to Lightyear

Extending Locations in MYOB Acumatica to Lightyear

How to configure your MYOB Acumatica file to allow Lightyear to view your Locations

If you would like MYOBA locations to be assigned to the header section of your bills created in MYOBA from Lightyear, you will need to extend an endpoint within your MYOBA file in order for Lightyear to be able to write to your locations.
  1. Navigate to the Integration section on the left hand side menu within MYOB Acumatica and open the Web Services Endpoints screen
  2. Click into the Default endpoint (with the latest version number) this should be Screen ID SM207060

  3. Click on Extend Endpoint 

  4. Give the Endpoint a name and version, as per below (it's important these are exactly as shown below) and press OK
    Endpoint Name: DefaultExtended
    Endpoint Version: 22.200.001
     

  5. On the tree view on the left side menu of this new Endpoint click onVendor, then press the insert button
      

  6. Fill in the Field Name, Object Name and Object type as per below and press OK
    Field Name: Locations
    Object Name: LocationsDetail
    Object Type: Detail
    Leave Use existing entity blank
    A screenshot of a computer Description automatically generated 

  7. Select the new Entity you just created from below the Vendors folder on the left hand side menu, go to fields tab and click populate
      

  8. Select Locations as the object and check all the available fields, then press ok
      

  9. Save the web service endpoint by pressing the save icon as per below. Your list of fields, and extended endpoint should reflect the below details once finished:
      

Once the above is completed in MYOB Acumatica, you can then enable Locations in your Lightyear accountancy settings, which will set a specific location as the Header location that will be set against each Bill/Credit Note to be exported into MYOB Acumatica.
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This is only visible from Accountancy Software Settings and on the document/s once exported to MYOB Acumatica.


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