We need to export invoice records from our FM8.5 database to Quickbooks. The invoices are always the same type (services only) with Qty, Desc, Unit Cost, Total. We don't need to do any other type of import/export with Quickbooks. I've read many good links in this forum about plugins such as FileBooks and FmBooksConnector.

Would trying to export the data manually in Filemaker using XML (or any other format) without using a plug-in be a very time consuming job, considering we only want to export invoices ?

Thanks for your input

It depends how good you are at parsing text. To get an idea what kind of file you need to produce, Try exporting some invoices out of Quickbooks first and then open the file up in a text editor to see what it looks like.

It's been a while since I've looked at Quickbooks import/export file format, but as I recall, it isn't all that complicated.

I've done it creating .IIF files to import into Quickbooks. For the money you are way better off use a plug in unless you just love text parsing.

-Mark Lemm

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