QuickBooks ODBC Drivers and Extraction Software
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ODBC Drivers:
http://www.qodbc.com/QODBC.htm
Free version access list tables only no transaction data
Read-only version $99
Read/Write version $199
http://www.hcit.co.uk/LinkBook/ supports Quickbooks
Basic version
Free trial version allows limited record access
Read-only version $190
Read-write version $380 May still be a Beta version
Data Extraction software:
Digital Cows Free Quickbooks Exporter Digital Cows Technologies - FREE this one works quite well. But note that to use the tables extracted to
Access you must understand the logical relationships between the data. Not trivial.
I have personally used the digital cows free extraction software, which extracts to a MS Access database. Works slick.
Digital Cows Deluxe Exporter - $79
Datablox Office Q - $99
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Only extraction software I am aware of that extracts all data including Budget data
(although the SDK2003 and Quickbooks 2004 gives you access to Budget data in terms of a report)
Synergration Access Books - $99
Synergration AccessBooks+ - $129 Adds ability to export raw report data.
The easy to use interface lets you specify the report and filter criteria to export. Click on the image to the right to view this interface. With the raw report data and the built in report writer in Access you can finally generate the reports you've been wanting.
Synergration AccessBooks Updater - $199 Provides for updating Quickbooks data from Access
Synergration Xbooks - $179 - Links QuickBooks to Excel
Synergration AccessBooks Realtime - $199 - Real time sync between Quickbooks and an Access database
accessBooks Real Time dynamically synchronizes an Access, SQL Server, or MySQL database with your QuickBooks company file. All changes made in QuickBooks are automatically replicated to the database. Put an end to after-hours database dumps or slow ODBC interfaces. With accessBooks Real Time you get high performance access to current QuickBooks data.
Synergration AccessBooks Realtime + - $299 Same as above except sync runs as a system service.
E-mail invoices,
Reports and Statements
Most add-on products to email QuickBooks output do so by adding a PDF printer driver that prints the report to a pdf file which can then be attached to an e-mail.
Totally free PDF printer software. It is what I am using. After the file is created you must manually attach it to an e-mail.
eDocPrinter Pro - License $29 Free trial version which marks reports with watermark after page 3 and an invisible hotlink at the top of each page to the software web site.
Nice feature allows it to automatically invoke your e-mail software and setup a new e-mail with the file already attached.
QBAutomation - $ 38/$49.50/$69 for Basic/Standard/Professional versions respectively
You can email not
only invoices. Other items ready for email are credit memos, purchase orders,
statements, sales receipts and estimates. All this can be one by a few mouse
clicks.
AutoReporter
- $95
Automates processing of reports. Includes distribution of reports via email.
Invoy for QuickBooks - $179
Now send
HTML-formatted QuickBooks invoices,
estimates, statements, receipts and purchase orders via email
or fax! Documents are emailed as true
HTML, not attached images. No special client-side viewer software
required, just their normal email reader.
Quickbooks Support Forums
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
http://www.quickbooksusers.com/.forums/
http://www.quickbooks.com/support/boards/index.html Intuits forums currently not available
http://groups.yahoo.com Search for Quickbooks there are a handful of forums
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