Connect Virtually Any ERP to Dryrun Without a Direct Integration
Your business depends on financial information from multiple systems, but not every ERP, accounting platform, or operational application has a direct integration with cash flow forecasting software.
Finance teams often resort to downloading reports, copying information into spreadsheets, adjusting formulas, and rebuilding forecasts whenever the underlying data changes.
It's repetitive, time-consuming work that takes valuable time away from financial analysis and planning.
Dryrun Universal Import replaces that manual process.
If your system can export financial data to a spreadsheet, Dryrun can often automate bringing that information into your cash flow forecast.
Many ERP systems can be configured to generate and email reports automatically. Dryrun Universal Import securely receives and processes these reports, bringing updated financial information into your forecast without repeatedly downloading, formatting, or uploading files.
Once configured, the process can run automatically as new reports arrive.
Keep your existing systems. Automate the data. Replace the forecasting spreadsheets.
What Is Dryrun Universal Import?
Dryrun Universal Import is an automated financial data import feature that allows businesses to bring information from virtually any ERP, accounting, or operational system into Dryrun without requiring a native API integration.
It works with compatible spreadsheet exports, including reports that can be automatically generated and emailed from existing business software.
Instead of manually collecting and combining reports, finance teams can establish a repeatable process that securely delivers updated financial information directly into their cash flow forecasts.
This makes it possible to automate forecasting data from legacy ERPs, industry-specific accounting software, and other systems that aren't included among Dryrun's direct integrations.
Why Use Dryrun Universal Import?
Dryrun Universal Import gives CFOs and controllers the flexibility to work with virtually any financial system while automating the repetitive work of gathering and importing data.
Automate Data from Virtually Any ERP
Not every business uses a popular cloud accounting platform. Many rely on specialized, customized, or legacy ERP systems that don't have direct integrations with modern cash flow forecasting software.
Dryrun Universal Import provides a practical alternative.
If your system can generate a compatible spreadsheet report, Dryrun can often use that information to help automate your forecasting process.
- Bring financial data into Dryrun from virtually any compatible system.
- Work with legacy, customized, and industry-specific ERPs.
- Automate recurring imports without developing custom API integrations.
Your ERP doesn't need a direct integration to work with Dryrun.
Turn Emailed Reports into Automated Imports
Many ERP systems can automatically generate financial reports and deliver them by email on a regular schedule.
Dryrun Universal Import turns that existing reporting capability into an automated data connection.
Instead of someone downloading an accounts receivable report every morning, preparing a spreadsheet, and manually updating a forecast, your ERP can send the report directly to Dryrun.
- Schedule financial reports using your existing ERP.
- Automatically deliver compatible spreadsheet reports by email.
- Securely ingest and process incoming data for your cash flow forecast.
Set it up once, then let your scheduled reports keep the data flowing.
Replace Manual Spreadsheet Consolidation
Your cash flow forecast may depend on financial information from several different systems.
Customer invoices might be stored in your ERP, bank balances in a banking platform, payroll information in another application, and future projects in operational software.
Combining that information often means maintaining a complicated collection of spreadsheets.
Dryrun Universal Import helps bring those separate sources together in one forecasting environment.
- Import financial information from multiple business systems.
- Reduce manual downloads, copying, and spreadsheet consolidation.
- Combine imported information with your existing Dryrun forecasts.
Bring the data together without building and maintaining another spreadsheet.
Keep Your Cash Flow Forecast Current
Financial information changes constantly. New invoices arrive, bills are paid, customers delay payments, and business commitments change.
When forecasts rely on manual exports and spreadsheet updates, they're often out of date before the finance team finishes preparing them.
Dryrun Universal Import helps keep forecasting information current by automating recurring data imports.
- Receive updated financial reports on a regular schedule.
- Reduce delays caused by manual data collection.
- Maintain a consistent flow of information into your forecasts.
Spend less time updating forecasts and more time understanding what's ahead.
Include Data Beyond Your Accounting System
Your ERP is only one source of information that affects future cash.
Sales pipelines, project budgets, purchasing plans, payroll commitments, and other operational information may live in separate applications.
Dryrun Universal Import helps bring these outside factors into your forecasting process without requiring every system to have its own direct integration.
- Import financial information from project and operational systems.
- Include budgets, planned expenses, and future commitments.
- Combine imported data with your own cash timing adjustments and assumptions.
Forecast how cash will actually move, not just what's recorded in your books.
Turn Imported Data into Better Financial Decisions
Getting financial information into your forecast is only the beginning.
Once that information is in Dryrun, you can use it to anticipate cash shortfalls, adjust expected payment timing, model scenarios, and communicate the financial outlook to leadership.
Dryrun Universal Import helps eliminate the repetitive data preparation that prevents finance teams from spending more time on these important decisions.
- Build daily, weekly, and monthly cash flow forecasts.
- Adjust payment timing and account for future commitments.
- Compare scenarios to understand funding needs and financial trade-offs.
Move from gathering financial data to managing cash and planning ahead.
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How Does Dryrun Universal Import Work?
Dryrun Universal Import uses spreadsheet exports and scheduled emailed reports to automate the delivery of financial information from your existing business systems.
For many ERPs, the process can be configured using reporting features already built into the software.
Step 1: Use Reports from Your Existing System
Start with the financial reports your ERP or business application already produces.
These might include accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank balances, budgets, or other information needed for cash flow forecasting.
Dryrun works with compatible spreadsheet exports, so a custom API integration isn't required.
Step 2: Schedule Reports to Be Emailed to Dryrun
If your ERP supports scheduled reports, configure it to automatically generate and email the required information.
For example, your system might send an updated accounts receivable report every morning or an accounts payable report at the end of each business day.
This often uses functionality already available in your ERP, without requiring additional integration software.
Step 3: Configure Dryrun Universal Import
Dryrun Universal Import is configured to recognize and process the relevant information from your reports.
Once the report structure and required data have been established, the process can be automated for recurring imports.
This removes the need to manually prepare the same files each time new information is available.
Step 4: Automatically Update Your Forecasting Data
As new reports arrive, Dryrun securely ingests and processes the financial information for use in your forecasts.
Your finance team can then work with the updated data, adjust expected payment dates, incorporate future business plans, and compare cash flow scenarios.
Your ERP sends the reports. Dryrun takes care of the import. Your team focuses on the forecast.
Dryrun Universal Import vs. Direct ERP Integrations
Dryrun offers two ways to automate financial data for cash flow forecasting: direct integrations and Universal Import.
Both reduce manual spreadsheet work, but they connect to your existing financial systems in different ways.
Direct ERP Integrations
Dryrun provides direct integrations with supported accounting and ERP platforms, including Sage Intacct, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, QuickBooks Online, and Xero.
These integrations use supported application connections to bring accounting information into Dryrun.
They're a convenient option when your business uses a system with an existing Dryrun integration.
Dryrun Universal Import
Universal Import is designed for the many other financial and operational systems businesses rely on.
Instead of requiring a direct connection, it uses compatible spreadsheet exports and automated emailed reports to bring data into your forecasts.
This makes it particularly useful for legacy ERPs, specialized industry software, customized financial systems, and additional data sources outside your primary accounting platform.
The import schedule depends on how frequently your source system can generate and deliver reports.
Direct integrations connect supported systems. Universal Import brings in data from virtually everywhere else.
What Systems Can Work with Dryrun Universal Import?
Dryrun Universal Import is designed to work with financial and operational systems that can produce compatible spreadsheet reports.
This includes a wide range of software used by mid-market businesses.
ERP and Accounting Systems
Bring financial information from older, customized, on-premise, and industry-specific accounting or ERP platforms into Dryrun.
This can include reports containing accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other relevant financial information.
Banking and Treasury Systems
Import compatible account balance and transaction reports to help establish cash positions and support liquidity planning.
Bring financial information together even when accounts are managed across multiple banking platforms.
Project Management and Operational Systems
Include expected project revenue, costs, purchasing commitments, and other operational factors that affect future cash.
Use information that hasn't yet reached your accounting system to build a more complete forecast.
Payroll and Financial Planning Systems
Bring payroll commitments, budgets, planned investments, and other financial projections into Dryrun.
Combine these inputs with your existing accounting information to understand how future obligations affect available cash.
If your system can export financial data to a compatible spreadsheet, Dryrun can often automate bringing it into your forecast.
Built for CFOs and Controllers Using Complex Financial Systems
For CFOs and Finance Leaders
Get a clearer picture of future cash without being limited by the systems your business already uses.
Dryrun Universal Import helps bring together financial information from different sources, providing a more complete foundation for liquidity planning, scenario modeling, and strategic decisions.
Whether you're managing several business units, evaluating future investments, or anticipating funding needs, Dryrun helps turn financial information into a clear outlook you can communicate to leadership.
For Controllers and Finance Teams
Replace repetitive exports, manual data entry, and complicated spreadsheet consolidation with an automated financial data import process.
Keep the systems your company already depends on while reducing the work required to gather the information for your forecasts.
Spend less time preparing data and more time keeping cash forecasts current, evaluating assumptions, and providing management with reliable financial information.
Dryrun Universal Import: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Dryrun Universal Import?
Dryrun Universal Import is an automated financial data import feature that brings information from virtually any compatible ERP, accounting, or business system into Dryrun.
It uses spreadsheet exports and, where supported, scheduled emailed reports to automate the flow of financial information into cash flow forecasts without requiring a direct API integration.
Can Dryrun import financial data from virtually any ERP?
Yes. Dryrun Universal Import is designed to work with a wide range of ERP and accounting systems, including those without a native Dryrun integration.
If your system can produce a compatible spreadsheet export, Dryrun can often be configured to import that information into your forecast.
Does my ERP need a direct integration with Dryrun?
No. Dryrun Universal Import can work with spreadsheet exports and automated emailed reports, so a direct API connection isn't necessary.
This makes it useful for legacy, specialized, and customized financial systems that don't have a native Dryrun connector.
Can Dryrun automatically import reports sent by email?
Yes. Dryrun Universal Import can securely ingest compatible financial reports that your ERP generates and sends by email.
If your system supports scheduled reports, the process can often be automated so new financial information reaches Dryrun without manual file handling.
Can the entire import process be automated?
In many cases, yes.
When your ERP can generate scheduled reports in a compatible format, Dryrun Universal Import can be configured to receive and process them automatically.
The level of automation depends on the reporting capabilities of your source system and the import configuration.
What types of data can Dryrun Universal Import handle?
Depending on your system and report structure, Dryrun Universal Import can work with financial information such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank balances, budgets, project cash flows, and other relevant data.
The exact fields and report formats are confirmed during setup.
How often can financial data be imported?
Imports can follow the reporting schedule supported by your source system and the configured Dryrun workflow.
For example, if your ERP can generate and email reports daily, Dryrun can often be configured to process updated information each day.
Unlike a continuously connected API integration, Universal Import works with data delivered through scheduled or recurring reports.
Is Dryrun Universal Import secure?
Dryrun is designed to handle sensitive financial information securely and applies security controls to its data processing and storage.
Universal Import uses a configured workflow to ingest financial reports into Dryrun. The specific delivery method, access controls, and security requirements can be reviewed during implementation.
Can I import information from more than one system?
Yes. Dryrun supports financial information from multiple sources, including direct accounting integrations, Universal Import workflows, spreadsheet imports, and manually entered assumptions.
This allows finance teams to build forecasts that reflect information from across their business.
Can I use Universal Import alongside a direct ERP integration?
Yes. Universal Import can complement your existing direct integration by bringing in additional financial or operational information from other systems.
For example, you might use a direct Sage Intacct integration for accounting data while importing project budgets or operational forecasts from another application.
Does Universal Import change the data in my ERP?
No. Universal Import uses financial data exported from your existing systems for forecasting purposes.
Adjustments made to expected payment timing or financial scenarios in Dryrun don't require changes to the original ERP accounting records.
Can Universal Import replace our cash flow spreadsheets?
Yes. Universal Import helps eliminate the manual collection and preparation of financial information that often makes spreadsheet forecasting time-consuming.
Once your data is in Dryrun, you can manage expected cash timing, add assumptions, and model scenarios without maintaining complicated forecasting spreadsheets.
How is Universal Import different from uploading an Excel file?
A manual spreadsheet upload requires someone to export, prepare, and import the file.
Universal Import can automate recurring parts of that process by receiving compatible scheduled reports and processing them as they arrive.
This helps keep your cash flow forecast updated without repeating the same file-handling tasks.
No Direct Integration? No Problem.
Dryrun Universal Import securely brings financial information from virtually any compatible system into your cash flow forecast, often through a simple scheduled email report.
Keep the ERP and business systems you already use. Eliminate repetitive data collection, replace complex forecasting spreadsheets, and spend more time understanding cash, modeling scenarios, and guiding financial decisions.
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