Quickbooks SDK: Part I
October 1, 2009
One of the projects I am now working on is a Quickbooks application that is designed to make the client’s order-taking and billing process more efficient. My customer is a small company who cannot afford a custom software package that is tailored to their specific needs, but find the inventory control and time tracking offered by Quickbooks to be little help to their company. My app connects to Quickbooks and syncs customer, billing, and invoice information with a separate database that tracks their inventory and orders, thus eliminating the need to enter the same information twice. It also provides an auto-fill form for order taking, and walks through the billing process step-by-step until the billing cycle is completed. The process begins in Quickbooks and, eventually, ends with an invoice in Quickbooks. I will be posting frequently about this project, if for no other reason to document my progress and allow myself a journal to look back on if my path gets fuzzy. I am writing this in C# using QBFC 8.0. I am now in the beginning stages, but I hope to move quickly on this project as I am anxious to get my hands dirty. Stay tuned…
