Comments on: QuickBooks Add On Programs: IPP and the Intuit Workplace App Center

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:57:19 +0000

I guess that would depend on WHICH products you are interested in, specifically.

By: HL Hisgen

HL Hisgen — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:49:19 +0000

I am looking for a consultant that has experience with the apps for Wholesale/Distribution that are offered in the Intuit marketplace.
I would appreciate any lead.
Thanks

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Can QuickBooks Keep Up With Microsoft? : QuickBooks and Beyond — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:20:46 +0000

[...] 2008 Intuit introduced the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) as a new web programming interface. Your data is replicated to a “cloud” data store. [...]

By: brad waddell

brad waddell — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:56:47 +0000

Alex

We are in total agreement that the SDK needs urgent fixes so that our mutual customers can use the features they expect from our tool, the SDK and QuickBooks.

SDK at this point is like a beautiful race car that falls apart when you try to drive it. please make the SDK road worthy again and keep the long term QuickBooks customers who depend on SDK data to customize their business in a way that was not possible before SDK existed.

brad

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:18:29 +0000

Alex, we’ve been stonewalled on this for a long time. If anything comes out that says Intuit will fix the large number of SDK bugs and keep it up to date, that would be welcome news. Lots of people are not happy about this issue.

By: Alex Barnett

Alex Barnett — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:26:42 +0000

Hi Charlie,

First, thanks for really useful article!

Second – re: the “freezing the QuickBooks SDK”…we hope to soon share news with IDN members that I think will show we are not forgetting about the QuickBooks SDK developer community.

Stay tuned!

thanks,

Alex Barnett
Group Manager, Developer Relations.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:12:48 +0000

Murph, a couple of comments:
1) I’m not saying that the IPP kind of apps are a mistake or anything – my primary issue is that Intuit has “frozen” the desktop interface (the “SDK”) and so they apparently aren’t fixing bugs in that or keeping it up to date. The IPP interface is useful, but the SDK interface is also useful, particularly since QB is a desktop app. I would rather see BOTH interfaces continue to be supported by Intuit.

2) I’ll admit that I am a bit of a dinosaur – I’ve been programming since we had to use toggle switches to enter our program and then could store it on rolls of punched paper tape. I still have customers that I am supporting who are running software on MSDOS. However, I’ll note that we’ve been told by the experts that desktop computers and software are dead since the mid to late 80′s. It hasn’t happened yet. There are places for certain things, and the online apps have their place. But the desktop is far from dead.

I believe the proper tools for the proper task, and as long as we are talking about a desktop version of QuickBooks then we should have desktop tools available. Web based tools are very important and useful – there are some kinds of tasks that are better supported by an online app than a desktop app. But I’m not ready to say that the desktop is dead.

Intuit’s apparent abandonment of the desktop programming interface (the SDK) leaves us with some big holes that they aren’t filling properly.

Again, my opinion…

By: William "Bill" Murphy

William "Bill" Murphy — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:56:50 +0000

Those of us that have grown up with ‘on the desktop’ software applications may have a hard time adjusting, but the future of computing is fairly clear; ‘hosted applications’ and/or services via the internet is where things are heading. Users who are growing up on I-phone and now I-pad are being groomed to the new hosted technology.

Intuit clearly intends to expand this capability, after all why ‘sell’ it for $149.00 when you can rent access for $15.00 per month, and obviously this approach also eliminates any unlicensed uses of software.

One last note, there are a lot of great new products at the App Center already some in development (Beta trials) and some ready to go. We can only hope that this new platform gives us more tools and flexibility in how we acquire them in the future.

Murph

By: Robin Coolidge

Robin Coolidge — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:46:30 +0000

I am with you, I hope they keep the SDK available so that there is the choice of having applicaitons that access the local data. There are a lot of potential problems with accessing this kind of data over the Internet such as performance (slow data access), problems with synching, data being out of data because it has not been synched, etc.