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 "Deprecated QBO V2 and QBD V2,V3". The only API that appears to not be deprecated is QBO V3.
I cannot find any announcement from Intuit about any upcoming deprecation. Does anybody have any info on whether I am safe to continue developing my app to connect to QBD or do I need to talk to our accountant to move over to QBO instead?
EDIT: I have marked Jarred's answer as the accepted answer because he associated with Intuit and answers my specific situation. Also check Charlie's answer for additional details specific to other scenarios.
I interviewed several people from Intuit at the Sleeter Accounting Solutions Conference this week, including (amongst others) Dan Wernikoff, Senior VP.
I'll have an article in my blog on this (http://www.sleeter.com/blog/) next week - I'm transcribing my recordings and clarifying points.
There are a LOT of points here, but to address what you are looking at -
If you are writing an IPP app using V3 for QBO - no problem (and in fact, some good news there).
If you are already published with IPP using V3 and Sync Manager for the Desktop, you will get continued support but don't expect any advancement there (unless you are someone big like American Express).
If you are NOT already published with IPP for the Desktop - the SDK is your option.
And there is a lot more info about this coming out
MINOR EDIT AT A LATER DATE: If you have been working with IPP for the desktop you MIGHT get approved to continue - no guarantees on that (but it seems they might be lenient). But In my opinion you can't expect any significant new features (as in, more data access) moving forward unless you are a significant partner with a contract with them (such as, American Express).
Intuit will not prevent you from going live with your application that you have spent the last 6 months working on. We have a set of guidelines for grandfathering in developers who have invested in using the v2 REST API for QuickBooks Desktop.
feel free to contact me directly if you have more questions.
#Charlie if you could correct your statement regarding if you are NOT published then you need to use the QBXML SDK. That is too generic, we will evaluate each developer on a case by case basis.
regards,
Jarred
My writeup on this subject is available at http://www.sleeter.com/blog/2013/11/quickbooks-software-integration/
Note that Dan Wernikoff, Senior VP at Intuit, has been leaving comments in several of my articles in the blog.
Blair, you have a reasonable concern. However, given the REASONS that they made this change, I would SPECULATE that Intuit won't be pulling the SDK. What isn't clear, at this time, is HOW MUCH support they will give the SDK moving forward.
And, as we have seen for several years now, things can change...
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So, I stepped once at this problem. I had offered a website that used the SoundCloud API. Everything worked properly. Content was extracted from the JSON and placed in the layout of the website. However, I received an email one day from the owner of the website, which indicated that the website did not work properly. I then came out to investigate and came to the conclusion that the "problem" was not on my side, but at SoundCloud's side. I studied on the API page of SoundCloud and came to the conclusion that the API had received a major update, making the link with SC and the site no longer worked.
Lately I'm trying many new APIs to, including those from Instagram and Dribbble. I was therefore wondering if it is at all possible to ensure that such problems can be reduced in the future or it might be appropriate API pages of this third-party APIs to monitor?
There's no "right" answer. After many years of using and maintaining many APIs here are some of the conclusions I've come to:
The best providers let you work with a specific version of their API whose interface and expected behavior never changes. They might release bug fixes and new endpoints, but you can be confident that as long as the API is supported it will not break your system.
A good provider will provide an end-of-life date for each version of their API. It's up to you to keep track of when you need to update.
Paid services will often be supported longer than free services. Plus the contract / SLA will guarantee it remains available for a specific amount of time.
The most popular APIs often have mailing lists and/or blogs. For those that offer it, sign up to be notified of updates. For those that don't you'll have to monitor their blogs or news posts. And I suggest not using any service that would drop support for an API version without warning.
In the past, I've been using the Delicious API available under feeds.delicious.com. When running this code today, I found out that the corresponding hostname is not available any longer (checked first time some days ago). I've already asked Delicious support directly about the state of the API, but not yet received an answer. So I thought anybody here might have more recent information, whether this is some temporary outage or the API has been cut completely?
This was likely part of the rollback to Delicious's old architecture in January 2016:
Fortunately for us, the version that the javascript site replaced has been kept alive at previous.delicious.com. This was built using a much more traditional framework, and it’s great! In fact, many of our longtime users have continued to prefer it over the main site, and frankly, so do we. Therefore, we are switching to this platform for our main site, and this transition will position us to quickly iterate in our ongoing efforts to keep Delicious thriving.
The auth URL on the documentation's OAuth page (delicious.com/auth/authorize) 404's for me as well, so I have a feeling this has indeed been retired.
Need suggestions on room reservation system. Posting it as I couldn't find a similar question here in SO.
Question: Can I use wordpress and create my own plugin using php/mysql for a very simple and straight-forward room reservation system (4 page workflow)? If not what are the possibilites, Please suggest.
If the post is not in the right forum, please feel free to close it or re-direct me.
Background: I work part time for a non profit organization (I dont get paid, it's just a service to the community during my free time). They own a small property with about 20-30 rooms onsite and manage their room reservations, manually with Google drive.
I've suggested them to build an online portal for reservation. This is a service project, to enhance my technical resume as well as help someone.
My technical abilities - HTML, CSS, VB, SQL, PL-sQL (A long time ago) and I'm an automation tester so very good with programming skills.
Project deadline - 4 to 6 months. (I'd be spending about 15 hours/week)
PS: If this is beyond my capabilities I will be asking them to outsource.
Did you look at SourceForge, etc, to see if you can get a ready made system for free?
You may have to tailor it a little, but it might still be the quickest & easiest way to get somethign up & running. Your skills seem fine, though (VB is fine for a Windows app, you would want PHP for web-based).
Take a look at
Meeting Room Booking System is a free, GPL, web application using PHP and MySQL/pgsql for booking meeting rooms or other resources.
Meeting Room Reservation System, a mock project for study purpose.
phpScheduleIt, a web-based resource scheduling system
OpenRoom provides a simple online interface for managing and reserving rooms
RoomTimes is a php written application with which you can manage the rooms of any organisation
or you might want to google for others
I'm developing app - it is custom offline feed reader. I's completely free, so I do not need any subscriptions. I want to use some newsstand features and I already draw amazing icon for newsstand:) What should I do? Is any workarounds about this issue? May be some "fake" free subscription?
Another issue - when I tried to publish app with only one free subscription, I failed. Is that normal?
Your completely correct you can have free subscriptions, iTunes connectly clearly states you can have free subscriptions.
If you want to use Urban airship this guide should help you out, and give you the perfect guide as to what you are actually looking for.
Search First Glimpse magazine. It is a free magazine that populates in News Stand. Also, that publishing company has more free content
This question (or variations of this question) has been asked before, but as Apple's export compliance rules change relatively frequently, and no one seems to ever get a straight answer, I thought I would ask.
I write an iPhone application that uses version 0.2 of the Dropbox API.
I have emailed Apple concerning use of this specific API, and I will be sure to update this question as I learn more and hear back from Apple. In the meantime, if any developer is using the Dropbox API in their iPhone application, did you mark your application as using encryption?
Edit: Upon closer inspection, it looks like the file data is also transferred using SSL. Since their API is using the NSMutableURLRequest class over HTTPS though, I still can't determine whether or not this API "uses encryption." If in the App Store submission page I mark that it does include encryption, Apple then asks if I'm using greater than a 64-bit symmetric encryption key.
If your app uses SSL (HTTPS), then yes it does include encryption. The export compliance rules changed last year though, so you will need an Encryption Registration Number instead of a CCATS number. See this blog post for details.
As it happens I'm working on this right now on a related project.
The Apple position is clarified in the FAQ in iTunesConnect; (my bold)
If your App contains, uses or
accesses standard cryptography for purposes other than those listed in
questions 2-4, you need to submit for
an ERN authorization. Examples of
standard encryption are: AES, SSL,
https.
This authorization requires that you
submit an annual report to two U.S.
Government agencies with information
about your App every January.
It's a pain in the neck, but that is the law if you want to be fully compliant. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong though!
PS. You could always ask for a direct opinion from the Government department concerned here;
http://www.bis.doc.gov/forms/rpdform.html
You can also call the Bureau of Industry and Security help desk at 202-482-0707 or read the web site at http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption for more information.
Discussing your question with a live person is probably going to be better than filling out the online form and waiting for a response.