File Import Tool for NetSuite

Availent Systems is all about helping companies implement, integrate, and optimize NetSuite to manage their business. We are innovative and passionate about our work. We offer reasonable rates and avoid sales fluff. Another of our NetSuite-enhancing products people love is the File Import Tool. It’s surprising how often businesses run into this issue of wanting to import certain types of files directly into their NetSuite app, only to find out they can’t. The File Import Tool from Availent Systems is the go-to solution for addressing this limitation.

NetSuite makes a bold claim on its website, saying it “…has everything you need to grow, all in one place.” It goes on to summarize what it means: “We support over 41,000 customers in 219 countries and territories around the world. As the world’s first cloud company, we provide a full, cloud-based ERP suite, including financials, inventory management, HR, professional services automation, and omnichannel commerce modules.”

Those numbers and the wide range of business management tasks covered by its suite of apps are hard to argue with. Still, it’s rare for any software to really do all the things every user wishes it could do. We don’t mean this as a criticism of NetSuite. Far from it! NetSuite helps so many small-to-medium-sized businesses, it deserves all the enhancement it can get. This is where Availant Systems comes in because we create software tools that help NetSuite users get even more out of the software, including our File Import Tool.

This process is labor-intensive (and therefore expensive) and also opens up the data to human errors when entered. Maybe you’ve tried converting some of your peskier file types into something you think should be importable to NetSuite but you keep getting file import errors. How much time will it take to troubleshoot what the issue is and correct it, if you can figure it out at all? You may also be dealing with inconsistent data file formats and how to handle them, such as Excel, CSV, ASCII, and so on. This can become quite challenging without a standardized import process, leading to inconsistencies and integration issues.

Issues can also arise if you simply face a high volume of data. Managing and importing large volumes of data regularly can overwhelm the IT team, slowing down operations and affecting productivity if there isn’t an easy way to import the data files. Even worse, if you lack automation in importing files, the repetitive task of data import takes up significant time that could be spent on more strategic IT initiatives. And if you have limited IT resources (not uncommon among small-to-mid-sized companies), it becomes increasingly difficult to manage extensive data import processes effectively.

As your company grows, scalability issues may arise as the existing manual or semi-automated data import processes may not be handle increased volume, leading to bottlenecks. To do it right, custom scripting may be needed, but you may or may not have that expertise available in-house. Then, if there’s a lot of turnover at your company, continuously training new staff on manual import processes is time-consuming and detracts from other essential IT functions. Finally, we should also mention integration with legacy systems. Importing data from legacy systems that do not support modern data export formats can be cumbersome and inefficient.

What you really need to address all these pain points is something that can automate a lot of this importing of various file types into NetSuite, which is exactly what the File Import Tool from Availent Systems is designed to do!

In addition to Dashboard Service for NetSuite, there are several other Availent Systems products and services available so you can get the most out of NetSuite each and every day, including the following:

In addition to Dashboard Service for NetSuite, there are several other Availent Systems products and services available so you can get the most out of NetSuite each and every day, including the following: