Connect to QuickBooks from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for QuickBooks



This article shows how to connect faster to QuickBooks data from Asprova.

The CData ODBC driver for QuickBooks enables you to access QuickBooks data from Asprova. In this article, you will import QuickBooks data into item data in Asprova as an example.

About QuickBooks Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live QuickBooks data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

  • Access both local and remote company files.
  • Connect across editions and regions: QuickBooks Premier, Professional, Enterprise, and Simple Start edition 2002+, as well as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and UK editions from 2003+.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform actions like voiding or clearing transactions, merging lists, searching entities, and more.

Customers regularly integrate their QuickBooks data with preferred tools, like Power BI, Tableau, or Excel, and integrate QuickBooks data into their database or data warehouse.


Getting Started


Asprova setting

  1. Click File -> Data I/O Settings.

  2. Double click the header of Item and open the Edit I/O dialog.

  3. Select "No" from the RDB transaction combo box and close the dialog.

Data driver setting

  1. Select "OLE DB" from combo box in "Data source" column.

  2. Click button in Folder/database column and open the Data Link Property dialog. Select "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" from the list of data provider.

  3. Select the Connection tab. Check "Use data source name" and select "CData QuickBooks Source" from DSN combo box.

  4. Click the Test Connection button and make sure you see the message "Connection successful".

Schema setting

  1. Click the button in "External table name" column and open the Table List dialog. Make sure tables in QuickBooks are listed in the dialog.

  2. Click the button in "Field mapping" column and open the Item-Field Mapping dialog.

  3. Open the context menu in the space between tables and click Delete All. Link corresponding fields by dragging mouse.

  4. Click File > Import and data will be imported into Asprova.

Check data

Click Table View > Item. Be sure you can see the item data stored in QuickBooks.

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The QuickBooks ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from QuickBooks directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access QuickBooks data like you would a database - read, write, and update Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.