I've built a bridge between R:BASE and QB through a 3rd party product called Transaction Pro Importer out of Bay State Consulting. It's been working well for years, but Karen is right: when QB gets upgraded or moved from desktop to cloud, the TPI product may have to change and the R:BASE end reworked, too.
That company's experience with trying to move from QB Desktop to QB Online was a disaster, as others have described. (Would have had to archive/abandon historical details, and it still took over 24 hours to convert in testing.) I've also seen a non-profit I have worked with abandon efforts to improve their QB by moving it to QB Online. Frank's story -- a company spending 6 figures to learn that moving to XXX was not an improvement in the end -- is one many people have shared and heard over and over again when R:BASE developers got together. On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:31 AM, karentellef via RBASE-L < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the two cents. Just confirms everything I've heard that QB > does *not* want to talk to other programs. The vertical market app > they're looking at apparently has a separate add-on program you can buy to > make the transfer, but who knows what version of QB it interfaces with. > Gonna share your post (but not your name) with the company. > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Massimo <[email protected]> > To: rbase-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, May 9, 2017 10:21 am > Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks > > Karen, > > One of my clients has been using R:Base from DOS through Enterprise 10 > (nearly 20 years). Their accountant felt that the AR portion of the R:Base > application should be handled through Quickbooks (Enterprise Ver 14). They > have been using QB as a check writer for years. I made a number of > arguments against it, as they produce 1000-1300 invoices per day and the > well-honed, specialized R:Base programs developed to create, track > and process the ultimate payment of 1000-1300 invoices a day was in place > and working. The only thing that was missing was integration of AR numbers > for general ledger purposes in Quickbooks, which I pointed out could be > produced easily on demand when the necessary reports were required. The > accountant prevailed and the debacle began. I wrote the necessary programs > to provide overnight data which had to be fed to QB via Transaction Pro > because the QB process of importing the data was too slow. On the AR side, > all of the specialized functionality of the custom R:Base programs was lost > so the AR staff had to learn (the hard way) that QB had pretty screens and > some neat features but it took them twice as long to post invoices, not to > mention the dozens of other glitches the import process encountered, the > difficulty of handling incoming EDI payments, and all of the other oddities > that R:Base let's you code around. That's the short version, but bottom > line, I am now busily migrating the AR system back to R:Base. > > Just my two cents. Cost them six figures to come to the same conclusion, > though. > > Frank Massimo > Tri-State Logistics, Inc. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, May 4, 2017 1:17 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
