Re: Quick Books To 'Open' API's and Possibly Code Too

[Rich Bodo]

I currently use quickbooks.  Since my business is very small (maybe
typical for QuickBooks users), I actually have handwritten/paper
records of every transaction as well as those in QuickBooks.  I rely
on QuickBooks to check my math, print docs, and for the peace of mind
that the database brings.  If GNUE had/has the data structures and forms
in place, I could probably balance the books, start a GNUE database,
and dump QuickBooks right now.  I will probably want to export my
QuickBooks data, but I can do that right now.  QuickBooks will create
ascii text files of my company data that are pretty simple.  I don't
know if they are in a standard format or not.  Their extension is
".iif".  Maybe just a parser for the .iif files would be helpful.
Just a reference point.

-Rich
 
Rich Bodo | address@hidden | 650-964-4678

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Derek A. Neighbors wrote:

> Here is a snippet from IRC.  Curious for general feedback.
> 
> <derek> ************ FLAG OF IMPORTANCE *****************
> <derek> It appears quickbooks is going to start publishing their API's 
> this year.
> <derek> Next year they are considering opening the source even further 
> to allow customizations to QuickBooks.
> <derek> This is interesting on several levels.
> <derek> a. it will be nice to have API's to convert people to gnue
> <derek> b. i dont think they will be 'open source' so i dont see our 
> community giving much back (ours as in the open/free software)
> <derek> c. it will make it easy for 3rd party windows products to bolt 
> on their ecommerce, inventory, pos and other modules
> <derek> which will make competition stiffer for us in the small market
> <derek> as one way quickbooks has been displaced is that it wont work 
> with anything else
> <derek> and it doesnt do enough on its own
> <derek> let me know what you think
> <derek> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2684893,00.html
> <derek> *************************************************
> 
> Derek Neighbors
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