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Importing Daily Case Management Invoices into IES (Part 1)

Step-by-step instructions for importing daily case management invoices from Gayle into IES using the AR IES Import Advocate macro. This workflow helps ensure accurate invoice processing and proper application of checks.

By Jessica Esslinger

In this guide, we’ll walk through how to import daily case management invoices from Gayle into IES. Completing this process each day ensures that checks can be applied to the correct invoices without delay. We’ll review how to save the invoice file, run the AR IES Import Advocate macro, and upload the information using Spreadsheet Sync.

Let's get started

For this recording, we will be completing daily invoice imports from Gayle. These files contain the case management invoices and must be imported into IES each day. Since checks are issued directly from the office, it’s important that the invoices are uploaded daily; otherwise, there will be no invoices available in IES to apply the payments to.

Each day, Gayle will send a file that looks like this.

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Click here
Step #1: Click here
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Click here
Step #2: Click here

We will save the file she sends us.

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Click here
Step #3: Click here
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Click on "FDI Group > MAI - Accounting > MAI - CM Sage Imports"
Step #4: Click on "FDI Group > MAI - Accounting > MAI - CM Sage Imports"
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Double-click on "2026 CM QB IES Imports"
Step #5: Double-click on "2026 CM QB IES Imports"
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Click here
Step #6: Click here

Next, we are going to open the Macro file.

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Double-click on "MAI - CM Sage Imports"
Step #7: Double-click on "MAI - CM Sage Imports"

It's called AR IES Import Advocate.

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Click here
Step #8: Click here
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Double-click here
Step #9: Double-click here

Click on that. Go to Macro, click the Macro button, and select Build QB Invoice from TXT Full.

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Click on "MACRO"
Step #10: Click on "MACRO"
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Click on "Macros"
Step #11: Click on "Macros"
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Click here
Step #12: Click here

You can ignore the first one. Click Run.

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Click on "Run"
Step #13: Click on "Run"

The Macro will prompt you to select the file you want to convert from txt to csv.

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Click on "MAI - Accounting"
Step #14: Click on "MAI - Accounting"
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Double-click on "MAI - CM Sage Imports"
Step #15: Double-click on "MAI - CM Sage Imports"

Open the file you just saved.

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Step #16:

Click Open, and the file will be created for you.

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Click on "Open"
Step #17: Click on "Open"

Press OK.

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Click on "OK"
Step #18: Click on "OK"

Then you can press X to exit the macro.

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Click here
Step #19: Click here

Go back to the same IES Import folder. You will see the comma-delimited file created by the macro.

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Double-click on "2026 - CM QB IES Imports"
Step #20: Double-click on "2026 - CM QB IES Imports"
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Click here
Step #21: Click here

Open that. I usually press Don't Convert if the pop-up appears.

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Click on "Don't Convert"
Step #22: Click on "Don't Convert"

From here, go to File, select Blank Workbook, then choose Spreadsheet Sync.

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Click on "File"
Step #23: Click on "File"
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Click on "gb"
Step #24: Click on "gb"

Log in to Spreadsheet Sync. Get Started.

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Click on "Get started"
Step #25: Click on "Get started"

I am going to choose Manageability.

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Step #26:
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Click here
Step #27: Click here

We will log in.

Then scroll down to Manageability and click Manageability.

From here, click Create or Edit Records.

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Click on "or modify records and sync"
Step #28: Click on "or modify records and sync"

Make sure the company is still set to Manageability, Invoices, and Bills. Then select Custom Field and Dimension Columns.

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Click here
Step #29: Click here
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Click on "Invoices and Bills"
Step #30: Click on "Invoices and Bills"
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Click on "Select custom field and dimension columns"
Step #31: Click on "Select custom field and dimension columns"

If you want to know which columns to choose, we will be selecting these columns on the file that was just created.

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Click here
Step #32: Click here
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Drag here
Step #33: Drag here

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Choose Claimant Name, Case Manager, Claim Rep, Customer No, Claim No, Claim Type, Service Type
Step #34: Choose Claimant Name, Case Manager, Claim Rep, Customer No, Claim No, Claim Type, Service Type

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Click on "Get template"
Step #35: Click on "Get template"

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Open the csv file that was generated from the macro, select all, copy, paste values into the spreadsheet sync file.
Step #36: Open the csv file that was generated from the macro, select all, copy, paste values into the spreadsheet sync file.

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Right-click here
Step #37: Right-click here
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Paste Values
Step #38: Paste Values

Daily Case Management Invoice Import – Step-by-Step

Step 1: Save the Invoice File

  1. Receive the daily invoice file from Gail.

  2. Review the invoice information.

  3. Save the file to the MAI Accounting path provided.

  4. Open the Sage Imports folder.

  5. Select the 2026 folder.

  6. Click Save.


Step 2: Run the ARIES Import Advocate Macro

  1. Open the file titled AR IES Import Advocate.

  2. Click Macro.

  3. Select Build QB Invoice from TXT Full (ignore the first macro option).

  4. Click Run.

  5. When prompted, navigate to the folder where you saved the invoice file.

  6. Select the file and click Open.

  7. Click OK once the macro finishes creating the file.

  8. Close out of the macro file.


Step 3: Open the Macro-Created File

  1. Go back to the IES Imports folder.

  2. Locate the newly created comma-delimited file.

  3. Open the file.

  4. If prompted with a conversion message, select Don’t Convert.


Step 4: Open Spreadsheet Sync

  1. Go to FileBlank Workbook.

  2. Open Spreadsheet Sync.

  3. Log in.

  4. Click Get Started.

  5. Select the Manageability company.

  6. Log in again if prompted.


Step 5: Create or Edit Records

  1. Scroll down and click Manageability.

  2. Select Create or Edit Records.

  3. Confirm the company is set to Manageability.

  4. Choose Invoices and Bills.

  5. Select Custom Field and Dimension Columns.

  6. Choose the required columns:

    • Claimant Name

    • Claimant Manager

    • Claimant Rep

    • Customer Number

    • Claim No

    • Claim Type

    • Service Type


Step 6: Prepare the Template

  1. If prompted to replace sheet data, select Clear Data (if the sheet is blank).

  2. Wait for the template to fully load.


Step 7: Copy and Paste the Data

  1. Return to the comma-delimited file created by the macro.

  2. Select all data.

  3. Copy the data.

  4. Go back to the Spreadsheet Sync template.

  5. Click in the first cell.

  6. Select Paste Special and paste the data.


This completes part one of the daily invoice import process.