Why connect Exact Online BE with Data Merge Finance?
Prepare the configuration of Exact Online BE with Data Merge Finance in Belgium: prerequisites, accounting framing and Chift documentation.
This connection is intended for SMEs, trustees and growing structures that use Exact Online BE as software and want to transmit reliable data to their accounting environment in Belgium, France or in a cross-border context.
The most frequent searches around this page focus on specific needs such as Zoho Books + Exact Online BE, Teamleader + Exact Online BE or Shopify + Exact Online BE. Behind these requests, the objective remains the same: to connect invoicing, VAT, third parties and entries without manual retrieving.
- Synchronised data: sales invoices, purchases, credit notes, third parties, VAT, newspapers and useful items according to the selected framing.
- Expected benefits: less double encoding, fewer closing corrections and better continuity between management and accounting.
- Setting up: a few days of framing and validation on your priority cases, then a gradual and controlled production.
The technical documentation below then details the prerequisites, configuration steps and control points to integrate Exact Online BE properly into your Data Merge Finance feed.
Full configuration of Exact Online BE
PREPARATION
Check if your version of the exact online software allows the sharing of cost accounting data
The configuration of the analytical axes can be found in the accounting tab, then statistics and results (in the case of the image account below, the two analytical axes are activated).

CONNECTION
Step 1: Choose a name for your connection.

Step 2: Choose the analytical axis to connect.

Step 3: Click "Authorize" to complete the connection

AUTHORIZATION
You will be redirected to an Exact Online window to authenticate yourself safely

CONFIGURATION
Step 1: Select the company (the folder) for which (which) enable connection.

ATTENTION: you may not find the company/division you want to connect in the drop-down list. If so, you must modify the companies/divisions allowed in Exact Online. This requires:
1) Open the menu "Import/Export"

2) Select "Access to Apps"

3) Select the application you are trying to connect

4) Go to the section "Authorized Administrations". Here you can authorize all existing and future administrations OR select specific administrations via the "Manage Administration" button

Step 2: Click "Valider" to finalize the configuration.
