Category: Technical Tips
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REST essentials for the QuickBooks API
Hot off the press is a quick reference guide of REST API essentials that will help you get going with the QuickBooks API. All the details are in one place for both of the QuickBooks API domains: Accounting API and Payments API.
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Designing for Downtime: Understanding the Cranky Path
As a self-taught, long-time application developer, I’ve learned many hard lessons. Most are common to us all: backup the database before dropping tables, ground yourself before messing with your server’s motherboard, review infinite loops that might spam the CEO, etc. Recently, I was reminded of one of the toughest lessons to learn: network calls will inevitably fail.
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Creating your first app with Intuit Developer
The first step to building an application that connects to QuickBooks, the small business accounting software used by more than a million small businesses, is to create an application on Intuit Developer. In this post we’ll go through the process of creating a developer account as well as a your first application.
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Two new QuickBooks API integration guides
We recently published a new eCommerce integration guide and a new Global Tax Model integration guide for QuickBooks API.
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Item hierarchies using categories coming in QuickBooks
By now you’ve probably heard about the changes coming to QuickBooks Products & Services list — and available today for you to preview and experiment with in developer sandboxes. Given what I’ve heard from developers integrating with the QuickBooks Item resource over the past couple of years, for the most part, these changes should be a cause for celebration, as it should make it much easier for you to integrate your category/subcategory/product hierarchies with ours now.
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Intuit RealmIds are changing November 14: Are you prepared?
If your application stores Intuit Realm or Company Ids as integers in a data store, then please read carefully, because new realmIds will be larger than an integer.
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Up and running with Node.js and QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks Online does not have an Intuit produced package for Node.js, but luckily one of the members of the QuickBooks Online community stepped up and contributed their own. In this post I’ll be going over how to get the package installed and making your first API request.
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Up and Running with the PHP SDK for QuickBooks Online
We want to make it as easy as possible for developers to launch their ideas with QuickBooks Online, which is why we provide a variety of SDKs and libraries. In this post I’ll walk through the steps to get up and running with the PHP SDK.
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Intuit RealmIds are changing from Integer to Long
RealmIds are the numeric identifiers that Intuit Identity Services use to identify a QuickBooks company record. The current format is a 10-digit integer. At the current rate, we will run out of IDs in about a year in the production environment. To address this, we are changing the RealmId type from Integer to Long (64-bit).
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New "Connect to QuickBooks" and "Sign in with Intuit" Buttons
We are happy to announce the availability of new images for the “Connect to QuickBooks” and “Sign in with Intuit” buttons. The new images come in different sizes and colors that you can choose depending on your app’s user experience.