QuickBooks - Reading & Writing Data

QuickBooksOnline SQL Queries

Note: Knowledge of QuickBooksOnline and QBXML is required for mapping and creating process for integrating with QuickBooksOnline

QuickBooks Online Adapter provides interfaces for

• Reader: reading from QuickBooksOnline with a SQL like query
• Writer: writing into QuickBooksOnline
• Metadata query: navigating through QuickBooksOnline objects

You can build the queries of QBOE Adapter from the Reader Section of the Process Definition. You can build the queries similar to SQL, which includes the straightforward query.

Reader Query Examples:

Customer Query

The following is a query to extract all Customer in batches of 100 which have been changed since the last successful run of the process.select * from Customer where Customer.MaxReturned=500

• MaxReturned suggests how many records to be retrieved from QuickBooksOnline.
• FromModifiedDate suggests the filter for selection the Customers which are edited or created after the previous sync run.
• $last_success_run is a process specific variable that gets setup whenever the ETL process is successfully completed.

Note: Refer the filters from the QBXML, which is available in DBSync2 Conf folder. The XML Structures of all QBOE Objects are specified in this file.

ItemService Query

The following is a query to extract all ItemService in batches of 100 which have been changed since the last successful run of the process.Select * from ItemService where ItemService.MaxReturned=500

Other items such as ItemNonInventory, ItemInventory, ItemDiscount are not supported in QuickBooksOnlineEdition.