CSA integration with Practice CS

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As of the 2006.2.0 release of Practice CS, CSA and Practice CS are more closely integrated.

This improved integration works in the following way. When you open a specific client in Practice Management within Practice CS, you have the option to launch CSA from the client. CSA then opens to that client automatically, and a timer is started to capture all time spent working with that client's information. The timer is stopped when the CSA client is closed again, and the time information is sent back to Practice CS automatically.

CSA product fields that populate Practice CS

The following table lists the fields that are converted from CSA products to Practice CS.

Notes

  • Data sharing is based on the client EIN/SSN. After you enter the EIN/SSN in Practice CS, you will be prompted to accept data from CSA fields that share data.
  • The Sort Name field is populated when a client is brought into Practice CS through data sharing, but because CSA has no sort name field, this field will not share data thereafter.
CSA Products Practice CS
EIN EIN/SSN
Name 1 (truncated to 30 characters) Sort
Client Name Name 1
DBA Name 2
Client Name (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Individual First Name
Client Name (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Individual Last Name
Address line 1 (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business Address Line 1
Address line 2 (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business Address Line 2
City (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business City
State (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business State
Zip (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business Zip
Country (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business Country
Address line 1 (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home Address Line 1
Address line 2 (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home Address Line 2
City (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home City
State (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home State
Zip (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home Zip
Country (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home Country
Work (if EIN/SSN is EIN) Business Phone
Home (if EIN/SSN is SSN) Home Phone

Related topics

Data sharing overview

Exporting invoices to Practice CS

User Preferences > File Locations tab

Status Events dialog

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