QuickBooks - Reading & Writing Data

QuickBooksOnline SQL Queries

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

QuickBooks Online Adapter provides interfaces for

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

You can build the queries of QBOE or QB Desktop 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 QuickBooks.
• 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 QB 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