Accounting News
Problems, outages, and quirks that QuickBooks users are reporting — tracked and explained by the desk.
SDK & Data Export
Developers pulling large record sets from QuickBooks company files via the SDK hit a wall after the first batch. The fix requires explicit iterator continuation logic.
SDK & Integration
QuickBooks SDK 13 users find HostQuery reports qbXML support only up to 2.1. The fix requires switching to the Interop.QBXMLRP2 library.
Payments & API
QuickBooks Payments offers an API for processing bank-account debits, letting developers accept ACH payments on websites while using separate services for cards.
API & Integrations
Developers creating invoices through the QuickBooks Online API encounter errors when DocNumber values collide, despite no stated uniqueness requirement in the documentation.
Web Connector & Integration
Developers using the Web Connector with QuickBooks Desktop report that custom field updates for customers and employees fire simultaneously, with no built-in way to target just one entity type per sync.
SDK & Integration
Developers modifying invoices through the QuickBooks Desktop SDK hit a parsing error when XML elements like FOB and ShipDate appear in the wrong order.
Display & Graphics
QuickBooks Desktop windows may display black backgrounds instead of their normal colors, making text unreadable. Here is how to identify and fix the cause.
Developers & Integration
Developers connecting web applications to QuickBooks Desktop cannot get instant responses because the Web Connector architecture is asynchronous by design.
Developer & Integration
Developers retrieving budget data through the QuickBooks Web Connector can hit an XML parsing error caused by an incorrect report type and unsupported qbXML version.
Pay & Bills
QuickBooks Pro users paying bills find only two payment method options. The workaround is simpler than expected and comes down to how the program thinks about funding sources.
Integrated Applications
QuickBooks Desktop blocks external applications from automatic login during integration setup, requiring a manual permissions reset through Integrated Applications preferences.
Banking & Feeds
QuickBooks users exporting OFX files from online banking encounter structural limits on account, statement, and transaction nodes during import.
Sync & Integrations
Developers successfully sync accounts and customers to QuickBooks Desktop, but invoices silently fail to appear with no error returned by the application.
Payroll
QuickBooks payroll users working through the Form 941 interview need to know when Schedule B applies and how COBRA premium assistance credits are reported on quarterly returns.
Data Import/Export
Developers looking to pull structured data from QuickBooks QBM files won't find an embedded database, but several integration pathways can expose records as SQL tables.
Errors
Sync applications pushing invoices into QuickBooks Desktop Canada Edition fail with error 3140 when they send US-style sales tax item references instead of Canadian tax codes.
Payroll
A QuickBooks Online user on cash-basis accounting asks whether a separate payroll bank account will keep QuickBooks and the bank in sync when employees delay cashing checks.
Development & Integration
ASP.NET developers find direct QuickBooks COM calls fail in web apps, so they use an HTTP‑relay intermediary to exchange data on demand.
Errors & Sync
QuickBooks Web Connector integrations report error 320 when appending invoice lines through a MySQL two-way sync, caused by an invalid transaction line identifier.
Errors
Updating QuickBooks records through custom integrations can trigger an XML parsing error when the qbXML version specified is too old for modify operations.
Errors
QuickBooks Desktop users see error 0x80040400 when modifying sales orders via XML integration, typically due to incorrect tag usage or ordering.
Integrations & API
A look at the challenges and solutions for integrating QuickBooks Desktop with a remote PHP site, including the Web Connector and manual CSV export approaches.
Integrations & API
QuickBooks Web Connector cannot handle administrative tasks like user management, mode switching, or preferences — plan integrations around what it actually supports.
Errors & XML
QuickBooks rejects CustomerAdd requests when XML elements appear out of sequence, even when all required fields are present and correctly formatted.