Questions tagged [quickbooks]

QuickBooks is popular small to medium-sized business accounting software created by Intuit, Inc. QuickBooks Pro/Premier/Enterprise for Windows all include support for programmatic access to QuickBooks via Intuit's SDK/XML-based APIs. QuickBooks Online edition also supports an XML-based API. QuickBooks for Mac does not support any SDK/API/programmatic access.

QuickBooks is popular small to medium-sized business accounting software created by Intuit, Inc.

Intuit produces several different QuickBooks versions:

  • QuickBooks Pro/Premier/Enterprise for Windows - a Windows XP/Vista/7 desktop software
  • QuickBooks for Mac - an OS X desktop software
  • QuickBooks Online Edition - a hosted SaaS solution

QuickBooks Pro/Premier/Enterprise for Windows all include support for programmatic access to QuickBooks via Intuit's SDK/XML-based APIs. QuickBooks Online edition also supports an XML-based API. QuickBooks for Mac does not support any SDK/API/programmatic access.

Developers looking to integrate with QuickBooks might want to check out these popular open-source libraries:

Developers may also want to look at these links for documentation/help/forums:

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Is QuickBooks API QBD V3 Really Deprecated?

I just started developing an Intuit App yesterday and was really getting going on integrating with QuickBooks Desktop. Then today I logged in to continue work and was greeted by several missing pages on Intuit's IPP site and a link that says…
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Calculating customer balance from QuickBooks data (QBXML)

I'm working on building a simple website where my company's customers can view a statement for the last 12 months and therefore, their current balances. To achieve this, I'll be using the QuickBooks Web Connector to export the necessary data from…
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No UnitPrice available on SalesItemLineDetail using IPP .NET SDK for QuickBooks v3.0?

According to the documentation here: https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0050_data_services/v3/020_key_concepts/0700_other_topics#SalesItemLineDetail I should have the ability to set a UnitPrice so my Invoices show UnitPrice, Qty…
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How to Import & Export Custom Fields For Customer List in QuickBooks

In Quickbooks Pro 2009 I'm Adding and Importing list of Customers through the C# windows application. In quick book itself Import and Export options are there for customers list, but we have defined our own business validations logics and we are…
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Create a Web Service(WCF) to integrate with QuickBooks

I am in the process of integrating our custom web app with QuickBooks Enterprise 9. My thought is that I could use QuickBooks as my "database" of sorts. When a person creates an invoice, the invoice is actually stored only in QuickBooks. When a…
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Any python library to access quickbooks?

I want to integrate my mobile POS system with quickbooks. I need customers, sellers, inventory & post orders & invoices. I have not not been able to find a python library for this. Is there one available?
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Separate a column into new columns based on the number of leading spaces

These reports are coming from quickbooks, downloaded as Excel files. Notice that the left column is this nested hierarchy based on the left spacing. I need to separate Description column into separate columns based on the number of leading spaces…
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This application is not allowed to log into this QuickBooks company data file automatically

I want to create native QuickBooks connector. While connecting with QuickBooks Company file I am getting following error. "This application is not allowed to log into this QuickBooks company data file automatically. The QuickBooks administrator…
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How to connect React component to the Quickbooks Button

I am trying to connect to the Quickbooks Button (https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0100_quickbooks_online/0100_essentials/000500_authentication_and_authorization/widgets#/Connect_to_QuickBooks_button) into a React component, and I am trying to copy…
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Send Request to Web Connector using my Application Quick Books

I want to Add Customer by sending request to Web Connector. I have done with the sample code provided by the SDK. I want to know the process of getting and sending data using Web Connector. How can i call Quick Book Web Service and send request and…
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How to asynchronously service multiple QBWC clients with Node.js

The idea is to implement a QBWC web service using Node.js which can serve multiple incoming requests in an asynchronous fashion. Currently I am looking into qbws which is a Node.js web service for QuickBooks Desktop Web Connector. Any ideas on how I…
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Is it possible to pass a live instance of a com object between PowerShell sessions

I have a 3rd party app that up to now talked to quickbooks using a plug-in. That plug-in no longer works with the latest versions of the windows OS, so I am replacing it using PowerShell scripts. The plug-in would instanstiate the…
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How to test Intuit reconnect api?

I am building a page that would send a request to Intuit Reconnect API to renew the Oauth Token and Token secret values. It is working. But my test Oauth values is not within 30 days of expiration. Thus the response has always been "Token Refresh…
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How do I add a line item to an existing Sales Order using QBXML

I'm able to pull up the sales order fine, and I think modifying the line items that are already there looks to make sense, but how would I go about adding an additional line item? The OSR doesn't seem to make sense to me for this. …
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Retrieving an Invoice as PDF in QuickBooks API V3

Will retrieving Invoice documents as PDFs be available in QuickBooks API V3? If so, will QuickBooks Desktop be supported as well? In V2 (Intuit Data Services), only QuickBooks Online was supported.