I had dealings with the founders of Intuit back in the day.
QuickBooks was designed quickly as an afterthought for a
rapidly-expanding business customer base, enthusiastic/frustrated with
the early Quicken product; which itself was developed as the razor which
sold the blades of custom-printed checks, forms and envelopes.
As a result, they rapidly threw together a product on a questionably
"relational" foundation. For instance, if your "Customer" is also your
"Vendor", you have to enter its name differently (I presume they have
CUSTOMER and VENDOR tables, instead of an integrated ENTITY table of
some sort).
R:BASE had a QuickBooks translator some years back, but I rather suspect
RBTI ran into the mess Jan describes and "opted out" of the
relationship.
Bruce Chitiea
SafeSectors, Inc.
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Sent: 5/4/2017 10:25:05 AM
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
From: "jan johansen" <[email protected]>
To: "karentellef via RBASE-L" <[email protected]>
Cc:
Karen,
Yes. Cost me a customer. The data they wished to send was huge and I
advised against it because I knew that Quickbooks was a bad fit. They
did it anyway and when the data import routine into took hours and would
drop data, they blamed me.
I must add that we use Quickbooks for recording of expenses but we only
record total daily sales as reported by our RBase database.
The database handles billing and AR functions.
This is my opinion only.
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 13:17:08 -0400
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks
It's been decades since I've had to deal with Quickbooks, and it wasn't
exactly a joy back then...
Someone just asked me about sending stuff from RBase into Quickbooks
(they do not own QB yet, so it would be a new version of the software).
Has anyone here used a new version of QB and let me know if it's easier
nowadays to send data to QB? For example, what kind of formats does it
accept as an import? Any gotchas? We'd probably be sending over
lists of "members" (name, address, etc), and different kinds of
revenues received (member fees, special fees, event fees)
Thanks for any insight!
Karen
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