Please install Open Accounting Connector on the same PC/Server that MYOB is on.

Please follow steps below to configure your MYOB company to the Open Accounting Connector application.
Click each step below for a pictorial view

Now that the application is installed please double click the Open Accounting Connector desktop shortcut. Some configuration details are required to connect to MYOB. Driver:This is a driver beginning with "MYO" preferably "MYOB_ODBC" Directory: Please enter the company data location, this is an .myo file. This location can be found by opening MYOB and selecting Open. User / Password: These are the credentials used to log into MYOB Click 'Test Connection' when the form is complete. The connection would successful if all credentials are correct and will prompt which is incorrect. Now click Finish and Extract to submit your first data load!

Your Open Accounting Connector application may be setup to retrieve data automatically at a predefined schedule, this functionality relies to be logged on at the scheduled time. Due to the nature of Servers, it may rarely be logged into. So if the Open Accounting Connector application is installed on a Server, extractions may not always perform automatically. To enable this feature a task scheduler would have to be created.
To create a task scheduler please go to the installation path of Open Accounting Connector, usually held in C:\Open Accounting Connector_xxx\ Open the taskSchedule.bat file and follow the instructions.

The TAS Company folder location is usually a "Hidden" folder within the Windows Explorer. To allow "Hidden" folders to be seen please follow the steps below depending on your Operating System. Note to open the Windows Explorer please press the Windows Key + E on your keyboard.

If after clicking the Test Connection button an error message appears it is most likely that one (or more) of the credentials entered are incorrect. Below are a few examples of the typical errors and how to handle them:

• Incorrect username/password:
  
  If this error appears, the username or password is incorrect .


• Incorrect Server/ Server not located
  
  

  If this error appears it could also be an indication that the database file selected is incorrect. Remember this is usually in the C:\ProgramData\MYOB_Folders folder and has .myo at the end of the file name. Please see step 2 on how to locate the company file.
  
  Alternatively if you cannot see the ProgramData folder please see Hidden Folder section in Advanced above.



• Database Error:
  
  

  If this error, or a similar phrased error appears the incorrect ODBC has been selected name is incorrect. Please double check the name of the ODBC driver; conventionally it begins with 'MYO' followed by the country 'US' or version '16', a combination of the two, or simply "MYOB_ODBC".