How do I connect Invantive Drive to Visma.net Financials in 5 minutes?

Execute the following steps to connect Invantive Drive to Visma.net Financials. You only need knowledge of Invantive Drive, your own business and the Visma.net Financials administration.

Visma.net Financials is online software for accounting. Visma.net Financials is used both by large accounting firms as well as large entrepreneurs.

No technical knowledge is needed to show the documents of Visma.net Financials in Windows Explorer with Invantive Drive. This step-by-step plan tells you exactly which steps to go through on Invantive Cloud and on your PC.

The steps to connect Invantive Drive to Visma.net Financials are:

1. Register an Invantive Cloud account.
2. Create a Visma.net Financials database.
3. Install Invantive Drive on Windows.
4. Sign in to Invantive Drive and choose the Visma.net Financials database.
5. Open your Visma.net Financials documents in Windows Explorer.

Invantive Cloud offers a Visma.net Financials connector for Invantive Drive, and 29 other platforms show their documents in the same folder of Windows Explorer.

When you are having questions, please check the forums for Visma.net Financials. Every organisation is entitled to 1 hour of free training to help you get started. This free hour also applies to free plans.

Register Account on Invantive Cloud

Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:

1. Go to Invantive Cloud start page.

2. Select the Log on-button.

3. Select the Sign Up-button.

4. Enter your business email address.

5. Select the Next-button.

6. Enter your personal data.

7. Select the Next-button.

8. Enter your password and repeat the provided password.

9. Select the Next-button.

10. You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.

11. Enter the six-digit verification code.

12. Select the Sign Up-button.

13. Log on now.

14. Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button.

15. Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish".

16. Skip registration of the organisation.

17. Complete your personal data and choose 'Save'.

18. Go to the dashboard.

19. The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.

You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with Visma.net Financials and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.

Create Visma.net Financials database

In this step, we set up a database with data from Visma.net Financials. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from Visma.net Financials. Invantive Cloud provides Invantive Drive with a real-time link to Visma.net Financials. The database will be used for all your Visma.net Financials reporting with Invantive Drive. So you only need to perform these steps once.

1. Click the Add Database button.

2. Select Visma.net Financials from the list.

3. Please fill out the form with login information for Visma.net Financials.

4. Select the OK-button.

Congratulations! You can now process data from Visma.net Financials within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.

Install Invantive Drive on Windows

Invantive Drive is a small Windows program. It registers a folder named Invantive Drive in Windows Explorer and fetches a document from the platform the moment you open it, the way OneDrive and Google Drive work.

1. Download the installer of Invantive Drive and run it.

2. Follow the installer; no settings are needed.

3. After the installation, Windows Explorer shows a folder named Invantive Drive under This PC, and the Invantive Drive window opens.

Sign in to Invantive Drive and choose the Visma.net Financials database

Invantive Drive signs in with your Invantive Cloud account and lists the databases of that account. Pick the one you created in the previous step.

1. In the Invantive Drive window, choose Sign in and enter your Invantive Cloud user name and password, plus the code of your authenticator app when asked.

2. Choose Add database and select the Visma.net Financials database from the list.

3. A folder named after the Visma.net Financials database appears under Invantive Drive in Windows Explorer, with a subfolder per company and per kind of document.

Open your Visma.net Financials documents in Windows Explorer

Explorer lists the names, dates and sizes of the Visma.net Financials documents. A document is fetched the moment you open it.

1. Browse to a folder and double-click a document; it opens in the program Windows uses for that kind of file.

2. A cloud icon marks a document that is online only and takes no disk space; a green check mark one that is kept on this device. Right-click a document to keep it on this device or to free up space.

3. Right-click a document and choose Open in Visma.net Financials to jump to it on the platform, where the platform offers a web page for it.

4. The Visma.net Financials folders are read-only: Visma.net Financials does not accept files from outside, so nothing is changed or deleted by accident.

What Invantive Drive Can And Cannot Do

Invantive Drive shows documents; it does not copy or move them. A document is fetched only when you open it, and every fetch is an ordinary request to Visma.net Financials within the limits of your subscription. Only a platform that accepts uploads takes a changed file back; the folders of the other platforms are read-only.

Invantive Drive runs on Windows. On any other device the file browser in Invantive Cloud shows the same folders in your web browser.