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Awesome Add-Ons For QuickBooks Consultants

By:Sleeter, Doug
Publication: CPA Technology Advisor
Date: Saturday, January 1 2005

One of the most important strategic moves made by Intuit recently was opening up the QuickBooks database to software developers. By creating an Application Programming Interface (API), and providing developers with a free Software Developer Kit (SDK), Intuit has opened up its 3 million-user base to software developers. Even a casual programmer using Microsoft Office and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can develop an application to read from and write to a QuickBooks data file.

Intuit is even using the SDK to write add-on applications for QuickBooks. For example, the Financial Statement Designer (included with QuickBooks Premier: Accountant Edition 2005) uses the SDK to allow you to create GAAP-formatted financial statements. Developers have flocked to the opportunity. Over 60,000 people have downloaded the free SDK from Intuit's servers (available at http://developer.intuit.com), and there are currently over 350 applications listed on the Intuit referral site (http://marketplace.intuit.com).

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