As a custom software developer, we have integrated custom application software using both Intuits API and the QODBC SQL API, with QuickBooks Enterprise edition for our customers who manufacture, sell and ship products to their customers. It doesn’t matter if they have a retail storefront with sales being entered directly into QuickBooks, or sales orders entered online via an e-commerce website.
In one case, our client enters order sales orders for future delivery dates. Then, each afternoon they run our custom “Inventory Management and Delivery Routing System” to create a pick list for the next days’ delivery. The system will print a truck load sheet based on delivery zip code, then using Google Maps, the software will plan an optimized delivery route for each driver. What used to take 4 hours to prepare can now be completed in 15 minutes.
In another case we’ve integrated e-Commerce Templates e-commerce website with QuickBooks. And most recently we added an interface for sales agents in the field to check availability of rental equipment and then reserve it for their customers, using a combination of an SQL Database inventory system, a secure website, and QBES.
For accepting incoming digital PBX telephone calls with QuickBooks Enterprise, we used Intuit’s API to open a client’s QuickBooks account when the client calls the sales desk on the telephone, based on their caller ID.
We also have written a very easy to use time tracking application that automatically sends QuickBooks time activity entries over the Internet from a laptop/desktop or and mobile device.
Both Intuit’s API and QODBC provide the software developer with very powerful integration tools enabling them to add functionality centered on QuickBooks desktop editions.
