Posted by NC on 05/07/06 22:09

Michael Vilain wrote:
>
> > Again, this is highly ambiguous. What exactly do you mean when you say
> > "QuckBooks integration"? In which direction do you want the data to
> > flow: from QuickBooks to the Web site (as in inventory export), from
> > the Web site into QuickBooks (as in order/sales reports), or both? How
> > often (periodically, on demand, in real time)? What version of
> > QuickBooks are you using?
>
> The web database is the core. Information in it is extracted and
> updated into Quickbooks, both as customer information and as invoices or
> statements. We do this because the periodic billing we do doesn't work
> very well with Quickbooks. These extracts are done monthly. The main
> office upgraded their version of Quickbooks and didn't tell me, breaking
> what I wrote. Now I have to buy that version of Quickbooks and fix the
> problem. I don't envision a web company doing this for them.

First of all, it wouldn't be a run-of the-mil Web hosting company. It
would be a very narrow specialist, whose focus is integration of
QuickBooks into e-commerce. This is why it is likely to cost
$500-$1,000 in initial setup and $100 or so a month for hosting. There
are quite a few of those spcialists out there. Additionally, the
specialist simply may not have to deal with version issues... Quite a
few companies out there have figured out ways to expose QuickBooks data
via ODBC. Once you get that done, you become more or less
version-independent. Check this out:

http://www.qodbc.com/

> I have zero interest in running a PC and learning those products.

There are MacOS ODBC drivers out there...

Cheers,
NC

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