QuickBooks Online is designed to help you manage your business finances with ease.
Go to siteThe QuickBooks API allows for streamlined financial management within Pipedream's ecosystem, enabling automated accounting and data syncing across various platforms. With this API, you can manipulate invoices, manage sales receipts, handle expenses, and synchronize customer data. It's a robust tool for financial oversight and automation that can save time and reduce errors for businesses of all sizes.
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
quickbooks: {
type: "app",
app: "quickbooks",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/${this.quickbooks.$auth.company_id}/companyinfo/${this.quickbooks.$auth.company_id}`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.quickbooks.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
"accept": `application/json`,
"content-type": `application/json`,
},
})
},
})
Automated Invoice Generation: Trigger the creation of invoices in QuickBooks when a new order is placed in an e-commerce platform like Shopify. Once the order is confirmed, a workflow can capture the details and generate an invoice, ensuring accurate billing without manual intervention.
Expense Tracking and Approval: Connect QuickBooks to email or messaging apps like Slack to automate expense submission and approval processes. When an employee submits an expense, the workflow can parse the receipt, create an expense entry in QuickBooks, and post a message to a Slack channel for managerial approval.
Synchronized Customer Data: Maintain up-to-date customer records by syncing QuickBooks with a CRM like Salesforce. When customer information is updated in Salesforce, a Pipedream workflow can automatically reflect those changes in QuickBooks, keeping financial records aligned with sales data.
QuickBooks uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your QuickBooks account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into QuickBooks and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any QuickBooks API.
Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:
com.intuit.quickbooks.accounting
openid
profile
email
GET
https://appcenter.intuit.com/connect/oauth2
?
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
state={{oauth.state}}
&
response_type=code
&
scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}
POST
https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
grant_type=authorization_code
&
code={{oauth.code}}
POST
https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}
&
grant_type=refresh_token
&
refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}