apHarmony offers QuickBooks integration development services.  With our extensive experience programming the QuickBooks API, we will be happy to lend our expertise to your software development project.  Please feel free to give us a call at 630-855-7522 for a free consultation.

The prevalence and widespread adoption of QuickBooks among small and mid-sized businesses makes it an excellent choice for an accounting integration platform for software targeting those markets.  QuickBooks provides a low cost solution to accounting and financial reporting, and its flexible integration API provides third-party applications with a way to securely read and update accounting information.  The API helps keep developers from having to “reinvent the wheel” when the accounting software is not the primary focus of the application.  It also provides line-of-business systems with a way to prevent double-entry and hard-to-track data mistakes in the database.

Depending on the deployment environment, a variety of API interfaces are available.  Desktop-based integration has generally been deprecated in favor of a web-based interface.  As more applications are generally moving toward cloud hosting, and many QuickBooks users themselves are migrating to the web-based version of QuickBooks, this is proving to be an attractive choice for new integration projects.  On the other hand, if security and a firewalled environment is paramount, desktop-based integration would be a more optimal solution.

Due to the absolute necessity of accuracy in the data transfer, it is very important to have an effective testing environment and strict standards in acceptance testing and deployment.  There should always be at least one staging / test database so that no test code is ever run against production data.  In addition, a backup procedure should always be followed before any major accounting synchronization operations.

QuickBooks offers a well-balanced platform for third-party accounting software interfaces.  For a free consultation on a QuickBooks integration development project, please feel free to give us a call at 630-855-7522.