how do integrate custom applicaiton with quickbooks?

I know quickbooks has an API but I have not done this type of work before.

My application, among a variety of things, generates invoices. My client prints invoices from my application but uses quickbooks to keep their books. I want to "move" a record of the invoices from my system over to their quickbooks. Quickbooks does not need to take any action, I just want to record the invoice with it's data in their quickbooks.

How do I go about doing this?

Is this an involved project?

Any articles, tutorials, links you can recommeend to get started?

Many thanks!

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Notgiven
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"Notgiven" :

You have 2 options -- IIF import or QB SDK.

IIF import is easier to implement, since it is just a specially formatted text file. The drawbacks are that it has been rumored for quite some time that Intuit will drop it from QB in the future, requires imports to be initiated from within QB by the user, and it has very little error-handling. But once setup correctly is quite reliable. Here's a link to a good simple sample IIF file:

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The SDK is much more tedious to implement. But it requires less intervention by end-users, and has very robust error-handling.

6 years in, the SDK is still frustratingly incomplete, but you won't run into any problems just pushing in invoices. The forums at
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are a good place to search for answersand post questions. The SDK download includes lots of samplesand reference.

Good luck!

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klunk

Many thanks klunk!

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Paul

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And sending people spam means a company has bad products? AHAHAH... you're an idiot. I get spam all the time from Intuit, CCH, Creative Solutions... etc. Does this mean they have bad products too? You sound like a bitter man.

I have checked out Profitcents. It's really cool. Our firm does governmental audits and it wasn't a good fit, but it is worth checking out.

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