An example would be Parent:Account1:SubAccount1:SubAccount2. The fully qualified name prepends the top most parent, followed by each sub-account separated by colons. This nomenclature is limited to five levels within QBO. FullyQualifiedName is derived from the Name and ParentRef.Description is the user entered description for the account.
The QuickBooks Online Accounting API can perform a variety of tasks and operations. The QuickBooks Online API actually is two APIs, or domains, the Accounting API and the Payments API. QuickBooks Online is both an application and a flat file database that stores your data in a proprietary file format on Intuit’s cloud servers. Applications that wish to connect to QBO must communicate directly with Intuit’s cloud-based servers for purposes of file access authentication and data query. This article serves as a brief introduction to some of the content that will be presented in regard to the structure of QuickBooks Online data. The second is on "Using Data Utilities for QuickBooks Online."īoth of these courses require ProAdvisors to have a fundamental understanding of the QuickBooks Online Database and related accessibility of that data via the QBO API (Application Programming Interface). Two of the courses I'll be teaching this year at "Scaling New Heights" deal with the QuickBooks Online Database in one way or another. One class – "Troubleshooting QuickBooks Online" – is a revision of last year's QuickBooks Online Errors course.