Integrating with QuickBooks from the Browser is easy now.

Just a short note...

Bet you never even thought of doing things with QuickBooks from the browser! Jon Hoyt recently approached me about working together to create a program for browsing inventory in QuickBooks from other computers within the same network. At first we were thinking about making a fully-bundled program that communicated with QuickBooks over the network through my QuickBooks Connector, and we'd work on it together one evening a week and release it just before Christmas. But we soon realized that instead of a bundled program, I already have all the tools ready to create a simple HTML + Javascript webpage that does everything we want. That brought our expected release time from Christmas all the way back to... October 27th, only a week and a half away!

The tools involved to build a webpage that communicates with QuickBooks:
1) An HTML webpage
2) Cross-domain Ajax, I've created a couple of JS libs for managing communication with QuickBooks
3) The QuickBooks Browser Connector, which is soon to be released (look for it in about a month, or if enough people really want it, could be sooner)

I'll be blogging again about it when it's ready for use! First version will be FREE, we're thinking of adding features for $1 each. :)