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Generating Statements for MYOB

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 13:52 WST —

The statements that MYOB generates are inflexible, and in a word, crap. I’ve found that getting timely and informative statements out to customers goes a long way to helping keeping your customers close to their payment terms.

So, in order to automate the process, I wrote up a script that generates statements, and any warning letters I needed to go with them. Keep in mind I’m using JRuby, as it gives me access to JDBC which is far easier to get working with the MYOB ODBC driver than trying to use the Ruby ODBC driver, and it requires no patching to get it to work.

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