Category: Technical Tips
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Benefits of SSO and how it works, indepth
So what is SSO, you ask? SSO, or Single Sign On, is a mechanism to help create the feeling of a single ecosystem across multiple services for the end user by sharing key elements of an identity. For customers, it is a delight. For the app, it is a conversion rather than a lead, without any friction. It is a win-win for all stake holders.
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Voiding Invoice Objects
QuickBooks Online supports the capability to void an invoice that was inadvertently created. That capability has now been extended to the REST APIs; the Invoice API now supports the void operation.
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New Developer Guide: Linked Transactions
Check out the latest dev guide on linked transactions, just released to production! This new guide provides information on how QuickBooks transactions are interrelated and how you can use the QuickBooks API to create and discover these relationships.
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New Developer Guide: Class Tracking
Check out the new developer guide on class tracking, just released to production! This topic unlocks the secrets of using classes to classify transactions according to different business segments. The focus is on using the QuickBooks API, but also showcases how the API relates to the QuickBooks GUI in various stages of configuring and using class tracking.
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Getting Started with QuickBooks? Five Insights From Your Fellow App Developers
During QuickBooks Connect 2015, I had the great opportunity to facilitate a panel with four of our existing developers. We talked about their experiences developing apps that integrate with QuickBooks and working with Intuit. Along the way, they had a few nuggets of sage advice for new developers just getting started.
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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.