Integrating with QB Desktop products

Question

I wrote a QB integration a few years ago that uses the Web Connector to read and write data to and from QB desktop products. It works well but I am not in love with the Web Connector.

I am tasked with setting up another QB integration. I was hoping to avoid using the Web Connector this time. There are a few reasons why I am trying to avoid the Web Connector but the main reason is I would like to make this integration work with both Desktop and Online versions of QB.

Is it possible to use the Intuit Sync Manager to sync the company data up to Intuit and then just use the standard Online APIs to connect to that company file? I have done some testing and I can connect to QB Online via the Online APIs but I cannot seem to get it to see the synced company files.

Any help with this would be great. Just looking for a little direction here.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

For QBO, of-course, you can use QBO REST APIs(V3) API. Ref - https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi

But for QBD, QBSDK and web-connector is still the only approach. QBD V2 and V3 REST APIs are already deprecated.

• https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0250_qb
• https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0250_qb/0010_get_oriented/0080_quickbooks_web_connector

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