Setting up Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector

Installations are carried out by the Certinia Onboarding team. To install the Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector package, first make sure that the required packages are installed in your org, then contact your Customer Support representative.

Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector Winter 2024 requires the following Certinia packages to be installed:

  • Accounting Winter 2024 or newer
  • Order and Inventory Management Winter 2024 or newer

Post-Install Steps

If you have permissions to do so, you can follow the steps described in this section to set up and configure Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector.

Note:

The section outlines the steps for a first installation of Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector.

You must be logged in as an administrator or equivalent to perform the steps. Access the related help page and complete the tasks described.

Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector Setup Tasks

Step

Task

Related Help Topic

1 Assign the required permission sets to the relevant users. Permission Sets and Other Technical Documentation
2 Add the connector fields, buttons, and related lists to the relevant page layouts, list views, and Lightning pages.

Updating Page Layouts, List Views, and Field Sets

3 Configure the relevant connector settings. OIM – Accounting Connector Admin Page
4 [Optional] Review the default mappings and customize field-level mappings. Viewing Mappings
5 Populate the picklist values for the Company Name picklist on the Account, Purchase Order, Sales Order, and Service Contract objects. Populating the Company Name Picklist Values
6 If you used Order and Inventory Management without Accounting before installing the connector, ensure that the existing records contain the required fields. Initial Data Setup
7 Map GL accounts to general ledger accounts. Mapping Order and Inventory Management GL Accounts to Accounting General Ledger Accounts
8 Map line types to products. Mapping Order and Inventory Management Line Types to Products
9 [Optional] Schedule background execution of flows. Managing Scheduled Jobs
10 [Optional] If you use Avalara for filing tax returns, schedule background jobs for committing tax for invoices and credit invoices. Setting up Avalara AvaTax with Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector