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QuickBooks drivers & connectors
for data integration
Connect to QuickBooks Desktop through easy-to-use, bi-directional drivers. Easily integrate QuickBooks data with BI, reporting, analytics, ETL tools, and custom solutions.
Do more with QuickBooks data
ETL/ELT
Integrate QuickBooks data into any database or data warehouse
Reporting & Spreadsheets
Connect to live QuickBooks data from your favorite Spreadsheet
ETL/ELT
Integrate QuickBooks data into any database or data warehouse
SQL Server
Integrate QuickBooks with SQL Integration Services
Command-Line Access
Automate QuickBooks tasks form the command-line with PowerShell
Reporting & Spreadsheets
Connect to live QuickBooks data from your favorite Spreadsheet
Semantic Layer
Access QuickBooks through a unified logical data access layer
Cloud BI Tools
Integration with popular cloud-based tools like Looker, QuickSight, SAP Analytics Cloud, and more
Live Cloud Connectivity
Access real-time Workday data from SaaS/Cloud apps
Python Connectivity
Connect QuickBooks with Python and Data Science projects
Other QuickBooks Drivers
QuickBooks data integration
Access QuickBooks data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps. Customers commonly use CData's QuickBooks connectivity to:
- Pull real-time or scheduled financial data (e.g., income statements, balance sheets, cash flow) into tools like Power BI or Tableau for enhanced reporting and visualization.
- No need to learn QuickBooks object model or API structure-just write SQL, or connect from any analytics or reporting tool.
- Schedule recurring reports or Sync QuickBooks data with a database or data warehouse for analytics and accurate historical tracking.
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Trusted by QuickBooks Users Worldwide
Edgio Builds Comprehensive Real-Time QuickBooks Reports Directly in Excel
“CData helped me quickly get information from mission-critical apps, and make it accessible in Excel for the finance, FP&A, and accounting teams with a speed and control that I couldn't find elsewhere in the market.”
— Peter Perrone
Edgio VP of FP&A
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Upside Innovations Pulls QuickBooks Data into Proprietary Tracking App for Data Analysis
“If you need a way to interface to a QuickBooks environment, this is the tool. I have used three different tools and the ADO.NET Data Provider for QuickBooks far exceeded all others.”
— Jim Webster
Upside Innovations
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The CData difference
Our standards-based approach to connectivity streamlines data access and insulates usrs from the complexities of integrating QuickBooks data.
Unparalleled QuickBooks Connectivity
Get full access to your QuickBooks data wherever you need it. CData is the undisputed leader in QuickBooks connectivity providing the most comprehensive access to live QuickBooks data anywhere. Thousands of customers and hundreds of leading data ISVs rely on our connectivity to make the most of their data.
Fastest time to value
Reduce reducing development cycles and accelerating the overall time to market. Our pre-built, optimized connectors eliminate the need for complex custom development, allowing for fast, secure access to Workday data.
Unbeatable price-performance
By standardizing and streamlining how systems interact with QuickBooks our products reduce development costs and timelines, slash architectural complexity.
Blazing data access
Our QuickBooks connectivity is fast — really fast. In fact, over twice as fast as other solutions. Our engineers have optimized our drivers for maximum performance all the way down to the socket level, delivering truly exceptional data access.
Future-proof integration
We continuously test against changes in the QuickBooks APIs & protocols used to connect, preventing downtime in your data and analytics processes.
Enterprise-class technical support
CData is dedicated to helping you find success with QuickBooks. We work as an extension of your team to help solve your toughest data challenges. Thousands of customers and hundreds of ISVs rely on our services to make the most of their data.
QuickBooks connectivity for BI & analytics
Live QuickBooks access for analytics
Access QuickBooks data in all of the systems you use every day, including BI & analytics tools, databases, data warehouses, and custom apps.
- Connect QuickBooks (and any other data source) to your favorite analytics, automation, or data management app without moving data
- Bi-directional QuickBooks connectivity through common data endpoints
- Enable QuickBooks governability and data privacy with user-level permissioning at the source level.
QuickBooks ETL, replication, & data warehousing
Automate QuickBooks data replication
CData Sync automatically replicates data from hundreds of on-premises and cloud data sources — like QuickBooks — to any modern database, data lake, or data warehouse.
- Create automated QuickBooks data flows in minutes with point-and-click data replication
- Facilitate reporting, business intelligence, and analytics for decision support
- Archive data for disaster recovery
Consolidate QuickBooks data management
Data management integration enables organizations to better manage their human resources data, optimize decision-making, and ensure compliance with data governance policies. Technologies like ODBC, JDBC, and ADO easily connect with all kinds of popular data management applications.
Connect QuickBooks to data management systems to:
- Provide a single, accurate source of truth for employee and resource data.
- Ensure consistency, data quality, and integration across systems.
- Improve data discoverability, governance, and compliance, allowing for easy tracking, auditing, and efficient data use across the organization.
Connect to QuickBooks with no-code
QuickBooks is often at the center of a wide range of repetitive tasks. With low-code/no-code tools, users can automate these tasks reducing manual effort and errors.
- Customize QuickBooks and integrate it with other systems (like CRM, HR, or accounting software) without writing complex code.
- Create custom dashboards, reports, or data visualizations by integrating QuickBooks data with other systems.
Build fully-integrated custom applications
From custom AI and analytics to performance managemement and learning platforms, developers are leveraging our drivers to power all kinds of real-time integrations with QuickBooks.
What is a QuickBooks driver?
A QuickBooks driver is a software library that enables applications to interact with QuickBooks as though it were a traditional database. These drivers simplify communication by abstracting API complexities, presenting Salesforce data in a structured, database-like format.
What is a QuickBooks connector?
A QuickBooks connector is a tailored integration designed to allow proprietary applications or unique systems to seamlessly interact with QuickBooks. Built on the same robust engine as our QuickBooks drivers, these connectors provide effortless real-time access to QuickBooks data for extended application functionality.
How is developing with a QuickBooks driver different?
Drivers streamline integration by abstracting QuickBooks APIs, allowing you to access its data through standard interfaces like SQL, making them perfect for data-focused applications.
- Pragmatic API Integration: from SDKs to Data Drivers
- Data APIs: Gateway to Data Driven Operation & Digital Transformation
Embedding CData Connectivity
Virtualize access to QuickBooks data
Data virtualization tools helps organizations achieve better data access, more agile decision-making, and greater efficiency in managing data across diverse systems.
Integrating QuickBooks with data virtualization tools allows organizations to combine this data with other sources like ERP systems, CRM platforms, or financial databases without physically moving or duplicating data. This unified access enables faster, more efficient decision-making.
Connect to live QuickBooks data in spreadsheets
Work with live QuickBooks data seamlessly in Excel and Google Sheets.
- Always work with live QuickBooks data — no more downloading, copying, and pasting
- Filter and get just the attributes and data you actually need
- Refresh data with a click or set a schedule
- Update QuickBooks records right from your spreadsheet
Frequently asked QuickBooks integration questions
Common questions about QuickBooks drivers & connectors for data and analytics integration
How does the QuickBooks Driver work?
The QuickBooks driver acts like a bridge that facilitates communication between various applications and QuickBooks, allowing the application to read, write, and update data as if it were a relational database. The QuickBooks driver abstracts the complexities of QuickBooks APIs, authentication methods, and data types, making it simple for any application to connect to QuickBooks data in real-time via standard SQL queries.
How is using the QuickBooks Driver different than connecting to the QuickBooks API?
Working with a QuickBooks Driver is different than connecting with QuickBooks through other means. QuickBooks API integrations require technical experience from a software developer or IT resources. Additionally, due to the constant evolution of APIs and services, once you build your integration you have to constantly maintain QuickBooks integration code moving forward.
By comparison, our QuickBooks Drivers offer codeless access to live QuickBooks data for both technical and non-technical users alike. Any user can install our drivers and begin working with live QuickBooks data from any client application. Because our drivers conform to standard data interfaces like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. they offer a consistent, maintenance-free interface to QuickBooks data. We manage all of the complexities of QuickBooks integration within each driver and deploy updated drivers as systems evolve so your applications continue to run seamlessly.
How is a QuickBooks Driver different than a QuickBooks connector?
Many organizations draw attention to their library of connectors. After all, data connectivity is a core capability needed for applications to maximize their business value. However, it is essential to understand exactly what you are getting when evaluating connectivity. Some vendors are happy to offer connectors that implement basic proof-of-concept level connectivity. These connectors may highlight the possibilities of working with QuickBooks, but often only provide a fraction of capability. Finding real value from these connectors usually requires additional IT or development resources.
Unlike these POC-quality connectors, every CData QuickBooks driver offers full-featured QuickBooks data connectivity. The CData QuickBooks drivers support extensive QuickBooks integration, providing access to all of the QuickBooks data and meta-data needed by enterprise integration or analytics projects. Each driver contains a powerful embedded SQL engine that offers applications easy and high-performance access to all QuickBooks data. In addition, our drivers offer robust authentication and security capabilities, allowing users to connect securely across a wide range of enterprise configurations. Compare drivers and connectors to read more about some of the benefits of CData's driver connectivity.
Is QuickBooks SQL based?
With our drivers and connectors, every data source is essentially SQL-based. The CData QuickBooks driver contains a full SQL-92 compliant engine that translates standard SQL queries into QuickBooks API calls dynamically. Queries are parsed and optimized for each data source, pushing down as much of the request to QuickBooks as possible. Any logic that can not be pushed to QuickBooks is handled transparently client-side by the driver/connector engine. Ultimately, this means that QuickBooks looks and acts exactly like a database to any client application or tool. Users can integrate live QuickBooks connectivity with ANY software solution that can talk to a standard database.
What data can I access with the QuickBooks driver?
The QuickBooks drivers and connectors offer comprehensive access to QuickBooks data. Our QuickBooks driver exposes static and dynamic data and metadata, providing universal access to QuickBooks data for any enterprise analytics or data mangement use. To explore the QuickBooks driver data model, please review the edition-specific QuickBooks driver documentation.
What does QuickBooks integrate with?
Using the CData QuickBooks drivers and connectors, QuickBooks can be easily integrated with almost any application. Any software or technology that can integrate with a database or connect with standards-based drivers like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, etc., can use our drivers for live QuickBooks data connectivity. Explore some of the more popular QuickBooks data integrations online.
How can I enable QuickBooks Analytics?
QuickBooks Analytics is universally supported for BI and data science. In addition, CData provides native client connectors for popular analytics applications like Power BI, Tableau, and Excel that simplify QuickBooks data integration. Additionally, native Python connectors are widely available for data science and data engineering projects that integrate seamlessly with popular tools like Pandas, SQLAlchemy, Dash, and Petl.
How can I support QuickBooks Data Integration?
QuickBooks data integration is typically enabled with CData Sync, a robust any-to-any data pipeline solution that is easy to set up, runs everywhere, and offers comprehensive enterprise-class features for data engineering. CData Sync makes it easy to replicate QuickBooks data any database or data warehouse, and maintain parity between systems with automated incremental QuickBooks replication. In addition, our QuickBooks drivers and connectors can be easily embedded into a wide range of data integration tools to augment existing solutions.
Does QuickBooks Integrate with Excel?
Absolutely. CData offers native Excel Add-Ins for QuickBooks integration. These Add-Ins provide live access to QuickBooks data directly from Microsoft Excel.
Using the QuickBooks drivers
- QuickBooks Desktop Integration Guides and Tutorials
- Build an OLAP Cube in SSAS from QuickBooks
- Visualize QuickBooks in TIBCO Spotfire through OData
- Connect to QuickBooks in JRuby
- Access QuickBooks from Aqua Data Studio
- Query QuickBooks from Node.js
- Automate QuickBooks Replication to Azure Data Lake
- How to Connect the Power BI Service to QuickBooks: Complete Guide
- Visualize QuickBooks in TIBCO Spotfire through ADO.NET
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