How it talks to your CounterPoint
The bridge: tablets and phones on one side, your existing accounting system on the other. You don't change anything. The accountant logs in tomorrow and everything she expects is there.
The flow, in plain English
- Read: every 5–15 minutes, the bridge pulls customer, item, and balance data from Synchronics + RealWorld using their built-in export tools. Tablets see fresh data.
- Write:when a clerk completes a ticket on a tablet, the bridge queues it, packages it as a Synchronics-format import file, drops it on the server, and runs the normal Import-from-ASCII process. Your application's own posting routines handle it.
- Automatic: no clicking, no human approval for routine writes (sales, payments, inventory adjustments). Approval gate kicks in only for sensitive items — GL journals, new vendor master, credit-limit changes.
- Audit trail: every queued write has a record — who submitted it, what changed, when it imported, what error if any. Forever.
- Failure-safe:if a record is malformed, your application rejects it on import. The queue row flips to “rejected,” an alert goes out, the clerk fixes and resubmits. Nothing partial ever lands in your books.
What stays the same
- ✓ Accountant's 20-year CounterPoint login + workflow
- ✓ Triplicate carbonless dot-matrix invoices
- ✓ Synchronics + RealWorld licenses
- ✓ Existing reports and end-of-day batches
- ✓ Posting routines, GL distributions, audit log
- ✓ Pervasive engine — nothing reboots, nothing breaks
What you get
- + Tablets and phones at the counter, in the warehouse, on the road
- + Outside sales reps can log quotes without calling the office
- + Inventory visible in real-time from anywhere
- + Modern reports and dashboards
- + A platform to eventually replace the XP VM entirely
- + No retraining required for the people who like the old way
Live sync queue (demo)
In production this is a live stream from the bridge. Today, sample data only.
| Time | Type | Target | Status | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17:42:18 | AR Payment | Synchronics ARDATA | POSTED | 2.1s |
| 17:38:51 | POS Ticket | Synchronics PSDATA | POSTED | 1.8s |
| 17:35:02 | POS Ticket | Synchronics PSDATA | POSTED | 2.4s |
| 17:32:11 | Inventory Adj | Synchronics IMDATA | POSTED | 1.6s |
| 17:28:46 | AP Voucher | RealWorld AP00 | PENDING APPROVAL | — |
| 17:24:33 | POS Ticket | Synchronics PSDATA | POSTED | 2.0s |
| 17:18:09 | New Customer | Synchronics ARDATA | PENDING APPROVAL | — |
| 17:12:55 | AR Payment | Synchronics ARDATA | POSTED | 1.9s |
The migration arc
- Phase 1 (now): bridge runs. Tablets work. CounterPoint is still SoT.
- Phase 2: new ERP/POS/inventory product runs alongside CounterPoint. Bridge keeps both in sync.
- Phase 3: when the new system covers everything the accountant needs, retire the XP VM. Dot-matrix and triplicate stay.