I’ve received quite a few inquiries lately about how to integrate web-based applications with QuickBooks. In cases where the query comes from another software developer one question comes up almost every time: Should I use the QuickBooks Web Connector to do this? The short answer: I would only use the QuickBooks Web Connector if I was [...]
On September 7 Intuit announced the release of a new application in the Intuit App Center that integrates QuickBooks (Windows desktop and online editions) with Salesforce.com CRM. We heard rumors about this back in March, with few details, so as someone who’s heavily involved in custom programming for both QuickBooks and Salesforce.com I’ve been looking [...]
Intuit recently announced that they are pulling the plug on Native development on the Intuit Partner Platform and are partnering more closely with Windows Azure to provide developers with tools to support Federated development on IPP. (The difference – at the risk of oversimplifying – is that with Native development you could build an application [...]
I wrote this in response to a query from a prospective client who needs a payment application developed for their Salesforce.com org. I thought it might be useful to share with the world in general. I welcome any comments and conflicting opinions, as this is an important discussion. 2 documents referenced in my original email [...]
By far the most common QuickBooks Point of Sale support call that I get is for a broken financial exchange. So I decided to post these instructions to help you correct the problem yourself, should you find yourself in this situation. In these instructions I’ll refer to QuickBooks Point of Sale as “POS” and QuickBooks [...]
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/android-gains-microsoft-slips.html I’m not an expert on the smartphone market, so I won’t pretend to be one here. But a few random thoughts on this article: I haven’t been hiding under a rock, just in my basement office. But I didn’t realize Android was so far ahead of Apple. I guess this doesn’t include iPads, especially [...]
Just caught this interview with FUBU creator Daymond John on Tim Ferriss’s blog. I read the book a while back, and I highly recommend it as an exciting business startup bio. In fact I’d probably rate it up there with Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity for it’s combination of fun biography and business inspiration. Best [...]
Update: The code below has been updated to copy the server address from the login result into the binding for our custom web service. Unfortunately it doesn’t work if you just copy the URL directly, so I parsed it to take the server URL and append the path to my web service. This works, but [...]
Many QuickBooks users and prospective QuickBooks users like the basic accounting functions in QuickBooks (financial reporting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, banking, etc.), but find that there are other aspects of their business where the existing QuickBooks features don’t quite meet their needs. These users are typically faced with two options: time-consuming and costly workarounds, [...]
Hey, all you entrepreneurs! I hope you’re enjoying the summer and aren’t working too hard. Me, I like to drive around in my Bluetooth-enabled vehicle making telemarketers wonder if it’s really worth it for them to do what they do for a living. I usually ignore calls from numbers I don’t recognize, but when I’m [...]
