Earlier in the year our CEO, Marc, did a webinar for the Blue Feather Group/ Atlanta FileMaker Dev Group all about integrating FileMaker and QuickBooks – but before we get into that, let’s talk a bit about why Marc spoke on this topic.

Here at Productive Computing we have made it our business to know all there is about QuickBooks and FileMaker integrations and to offer our clients an array of products and services to help them get up and running with an integration.

We offer:
– The FM Books Connector plug-in for QuickBooks Desktop
– The FM Books Connector Online Edition plug-in for QuickBooks Online
– Core4 CRM and Core5 Starter Edition CRM (both of which come preconfigured to connect with QuickBooks)
– 123sync Accounting Integrator, which offers two fixed-price integration plans for QuickBooks Desktop
– Custom development services to assist you with your integration
– Discounts on both FileMaker and QuickBooks licensing

We actively work to make it as easy as possible for clients to connect two of the most important office software solutions.

We’re also proud to announce that we just released FM Books Connector v10. And, let us tell you, it has aged beautifully. This plug-in is compatible with QuickBooks 2014–2018 and FileMaker Pro 14-16 (32-bit and 64-bit).

As we alluded to earlier, we’re authorized Intuit resellers and, because of that, we are able to offer great rates on QuickBooks Desktop 2018 Pro, Premier, Enterprise, and Online licensing.

Now, for the real reason you clicked on this blog – the FileMaker and QuickBooks integration webinar.

For your viewing pleasure and to be sensitive to the fact you don’t have all day to watch webinars, I have detailed out what topics begin at what time. If you want to start at the beginning, you can just watch it from the video below.

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At minute 7:08 Marc begins his discussion on QuickBooks and FileMaker integrations. He discusses the various QuickBooks integration products mentioned above and why there is no plug-in for QuickBooks Desktop for Mac (hint: it’s because there is no SDK).

At 11:00 minutes he discusses why businesses use QuickBooks and why people want FileMaker and QuickBooks integrations.

Starting at 15:50, he discusses what a typical desktop integration looks like and at 17:20 he reviews how a developer can do a desktop integration (custom integration, integration package, starter solution).

At 26:10 Marc begins his first demo to show importing contacts and items from QuickBooks into FileMaker and at 33:10 he turns on the debugger to show the “under the hood” of the import for items, taxes, customers, and vendors.

At 45:10 Marc demonstrates a FileMaker to QuickBooks push, specifically of a new customer.

At 48:20 Marc answers the question, why not just use the FileMaker field validation functions and discusses handling field validation.

At 57:00 Marc starts to discuss batch pushes to QuickBooks.

At 1:01:30 Marc discusses some QuickBooks rules that affect FileMaker and QuickBooks integrations and begins to answer some Q&A.

At 1:06:40 Marc discusses the Intuit OSR (onscreen reference).

At 1:08:00 David, a FileMaker developer, shares his own story learning how to do a custom integration with QuickBooks and FileMaker.

Hopefully this helped you and answered a few questions you might have had about integrating FileMaker with QuickBooks. For more information please feel free to check out our website www.productivecomputing.com or contact us at [email protected].

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