Our company uses Quickbooks Online to track our books. When our application bills a customer, it would be nice to have that information recorded automatically in QB rather than logging in to QB Online to fill in the info.
Is there a way to accomplish this using Quickbook's APIs? The Intuit developer information is very confusing; it is mainly oriented towards extending the desktop version of Quickbooks or developing apps to publish in Intuit's app store.
Have you successfully created a web or other service-side app that was able to pull data to or from QB Online?
If you're building a one-off application, the QuickBooks Online qbXML gateway is the way to go. It's a pretty simple POST-your-XML-requests-over-HTTP sort of interface that gives you access to a large chunk (but not all) of the functionality within QuickBooks Online.
If you're building a SaaS application, then you should be looking at the Intuit Partner Platform instead. It sounds like you're building a one-off app for your company, so we'll focus on that:
If you look on my QuickBooks integration wiki there are some example qbXML requests to show you how to sign on, and how to POST qbXML requests to the QuickBooks servers.
You don't specify a language, but if you're using PHP, then try out my open-source QuickBooks PHP DevKit (look at docs/example_online_edition.php and docs/example_raw_online_edition.php in the .zip nightly builds).
You'll want to use the QuickBooks OSR for qbXML reference. The QuickBooks SDK also has 40+ pages specifically about QuickBooks Online Edition that you should probably review.
The Intuit Developer Forums are another good resource.
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As I have understand - Live SDK has supporting 2 main features:
OneDrive and Microsoft account
Now with release OneDrive SDK all OneDrive features are coud be found in it.
But if you want to access Microsoft Account you still can use only Live SDK.
Seems that now we have 2 branches - Live SDK and OneDrive SDK.
One for account and another for files.
I am asking because sometimes it's not clearly written and looks like live SDk is depricated.
They are deprecated according to this:
The Live Connect APIs are deprecated. We recommend that you use the
Outlook REST APIs to build your solutions. This will extend your reach
to Outlook.com users and Office 365 enterprise customers. Although the
Live Connect APIs will be supported in Outlook.com for the short term,
existing Live Connect API solutions might stop working without
advanced notice. If your app is using IMAP with OAuth 2.0, it will
continue to work, but our REST APIs are the primary APIs for building
apps that connect to Outlook.com and Office 365. Read the article on
how you can take advantage of the Outlook REST APIs.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243641.aspx
In a recent email from Intuit we seen in the migration pages that the QuickBooks online
To:
developers currently using the QuickBooks Online SDK (aka QBO XML SDK (SOAP)) to access QuickBooks Online company data.
and
migrating QuickBooks Online SDK to QuickBooks Online REST API v3 .
on
https://developer.intuit.com/blog/2013/12/19/2014-roadmap-and-migration-dates-for-existing-developers
and
https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0058_faq/qbo_xml_sdk_%28soap%29_to_v3_rest_migration
Does this apply to the QBSDK12,11, etc. that support QBO.
If you're using qbXML to communicate with QuickBooks Online, then it applies.
This includes ANY and ALL QuickBooks SDK applications that communicate with QuickBooks Online. The entire SDK is qbXML based, so any SDK apps that deal with QuickBooks Online need to be ported to the new REST v3 API.
Does this apply to the QBSDK12,11, etc. that support QBO.
Yes.
I need some guidelines here. I am creating an online booking system for my client that interfaces with QuickBooks on their internal network (desktop QuickBooks, not online).
Do I need to go the full "publish app" route? I do not wish to sell this app in the marketplace. This is merely a custom booking system designed and paid for by the client. It seems like I need to "publish" the app in the marketplace for them to be able to use it.
Are there ways around this?
Update 06/23/2015 - To connect to a desktop QuickBooks installation the SDK with the Web Connector is now the only recommended approach. Intuit is removing Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) integration to desktop QuickBooks.
For the SDK/Web Connector, you don't need to go through any publication process or anything like that. Just build the solution, and connector your client.
There's a pretty good overview of how the QuickBooks web connector works on our QuickBooks wiki.
The QuickBooks SDK download also includes a huge PDF with detailed documentation about how to implement SDK/Web Connector applications as well.
As stated in the Google Talk for Developers site, you can use the provided APIs to build a client that connects to the Google Talk service.
I would like to know if it's possible (or it will be in the near future) to build a similar client to the google hangouts.
What we pretend is to build something similar to cloud print, that provides printing services to the cloud, but for audio/video streaming: a camera and microphone would replace the
printer.
Thanks a lot.
Talk and all the XMPP stuff is going to be put down soon.
The new Hangouts infrastructure is proprietary. It only has API to integrate Hangouts into web pages and applications, but no API or protocol to create an alternative Hangouts client software.
https://github.com/tdryer/hangups is a library that does exactly that, with a command-line client for Linux.
https://github.com/xmikos/qhangups is a PyQt-based cross-platform app that aims to provide an open-source alternative to the Chrome-based official desktop app. Unfortunately it's not working at the time of posting, but the author is investigating the issue.
We work on a lot of integration projects and a customer has a legacy ecommerce site and have asked us to integrate product information, orders and inventory with another platform.
Does osCommerce have an API that can be used for this, or will we need to build our own web services based wrapper for the dB?
No, not that I know of.
I think you'd need to find one online (never heard of one) or build one yourself.
http://www.bizmovi.com
It seems come with demo site.
API written in PHP for osCommerce, adaptable any client platforms which allow to rapidly mash-up existing osCommerce with iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS, Symbian, Bada, etc.