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Fiat Lux - ASIA
Level 15

How do you import .iif data/files into quickbooks online please?

What is the name of your property management system?

Have you tried to convert the IIF file to CSV format in Excel as I mentioned in the earlier post? You can use a 3rd party tool to import CSV files into your QBO account later.

https://transactionpro.grsm.io/qbo

 

paul72
Level 8

How do you import .iif data/files into quickbooks online please?


@Chookje wrote:

Unless I'm missing something, that solution to convert IIF files to CSV does not work.  As far as I can tell, CSV files have a 3-4 column format that only imports to 1 account in Quickbooks.  How are you supposed to take an IIF file (which has splits across multiple accounts) and use a CSV file to import it?  Please let me know if I'm missing something here, but it seems like this solution does not work at all.

 

How can Intuit not support it's own file format in QBO?  This is simply unacceptable.  


 

If I may add my twopen'orth ... 3-4 column csv import is for Bank Transaction import only (for reconcile).

You can import other transactions (with splits) - Invoices, Credit Notes, Sales Receipts, Bills, Journals - via https://app.qbo.intuit.com/app/importdata

Each option in there has it's own Import Guide, Preview & Sample csv file.

You can't import Expenses or Cheques by csv - you could (sort of) enter these as Journals as a workaround.

You can't import Bill Payments by csv - they must be entered into QBO in order to make the link between the Bill & the Payment.

 

My guess is that iif files will never be supported by QBO - even later versions of QBD didn't exactly shout about it - it's old technology (for want of a better phrase).  CSV import is purely there as a feature to tick a box (it works but I don't think I'd want to rely on it).

In the programmers' minds, the way forward for linking different systems are APIs.  They allow for much more "complete" connection.

 

Hope this helps.

Ashleigh1
QuickBooks Team

How do you import .iif data/files into quickbooks online please?

Hello Cookies, here is a link that has information on what can be imported and in what format it needs to be in as well, hope it helps you. 

Chookje
Level 2

How do you import .iif data/files into quickbooks online please?

Property management system is from InnQuest.  RoomMaster online.  It exports IIF files and Peachtree

Zed Axis
Level 3

How do you import .iif data/files into quickbooks online please?

Hi @julie-wormald 

 

I am coming a bit late to this but you may like to know that there is a data import utility called Zed Axis that can import IIF files into QuickBooks Online you can find it in the Intuit Marketplace.

 

That would mean you dont have to mess around with trying to convert IIF files into csv format as Axis can read the IIF file translate it and then import it directly.

 

Hope that gives you another option.

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