QuickBooks 3rd Party Applications – How Integration Works
The integration between QuickBooks and a third-party application is transparent, the communication between the two programs takes place behind the scenes leaving very little to be seen - often only the end result of a report or task done outside of QuickBooks OR a transaction created in the 3rd party program that is posted into the data file. As the QuickBooks developer I'm asked, almost on a daily basis, how our software integrates with QuickBooks. Providing an explanation is not an easy task - integration was designed to be transparent with most of the actual communication between the programs going on behind the scenes - within the thousand of lines of software code written by the developer. Everyone says "I need to SEE how IT (the integration) works". It's…