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Acquisitions - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)
0 Months Ended 3 Months Ended 6 Months Ended 0 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
Aug. 14, 2013
Oct. 31, 2013
Oct. 31, 2013
May 30, 2014
Jul. 31, 2014
Jan. 31, 2015
Apr. 30, 2014
Business Acquisition [Line Items]              
Business acquisition, purchase price allocate to goodwill           $ 18,749,000us-gaap_Goodwill $ 13,819,000us-gaap_Goodwill
Taylor Manufacturing Systems, USA, LLC              
Business Acquisition [Line Items]              
Business acquisition, purchase price paid in cash 1,191,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesGross
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition costs incurred   68,500us-gaap_BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
68,500us-gaap_BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
       
Business acquisition, purchase price allocate to goodwill 1,218,000us-gaap_Goodwill
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition, purchase price 1,841,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferred1
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition, additional cash payments payable in each of three years following closing 200,000amswa_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferredLiabilitiesIncurredPayableOnAnniversaryDateOfTransactionInEachThreeYearsFollowingClosing
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition, additional cash payments payable in first anniversary 200,000amswa_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferredLiabilitiesIncurredCurrentPayableOnFirstAnniversary
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition, additional cash payments payable in second and third anniversaries 366,000amswa_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferredLiabilitiesIncurredNonCurrentPayableOnSecondAndThirdAnniversaries
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
           
Business acquisition, cash payments payable in second anniversary           200,000amswa_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferredLiabilitiesIncurredCurrentPayableOnSecondAnniversary
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
 
Business acquisition, cash payments payable in third anniversaries           183,000amswa_BusinessCombinationConsiderationTransferredLiabilitiesIncurredNonCurrentPayableOnThirdAnniversary
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= amswa_TaylorManufacturingSystemsUsaLlcMember
 
Taylor Manufacturing Systems, USA, LLC | Current Technology              
Business Acquisition [Line Items]              
Remaining estimated economic life of the product 4 years            
MID Retail, Inc.              
Business Acquisition [Line Items]              
Percentage of issued and outstanding shares of capital stock       100.00%us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionPercentageOfVotingInterestsAcquired
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
Business acquisition, purchase price paid in cash       8,507,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesGross
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
Business acquisition, working capital adjustment       678,000amswa_BusinessAcquisitionCostOfAcquiredEntityPurchasePriceWorkingCapitalAdjustments
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
Earnout period       24 months      
Additional consideration payments, percentage of license fee revenues       15.00%amswa_BusinessCombinationContingentConsiderationPercentageOfLicenseFeeRevenuePayable
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
Additional consideration payments       1,500,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationContingentConsiderationLiability
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
Business acquisition costs incurred         66,800us-gaap_BusinessCombinationAcquisitionRelatedCosts
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
   
Business acquisition, purchase price allocate to goodwill       $ 4,930,000us-gaap_Goodwill
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= amswa_MidRetailIncMember
     
MID Retail, Inc. | Current Technology              
Business Acquisition [Line Items]              
Remaining estimated economic life of the product       3 years