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    Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

    Hello all

    At the moment I run my own EPOS application and it runs flawlessly.
    I am thinking of deploying Quickbooks as my accounts application.

    My question is how easy is it to get Alpha to talk to Quickbooks so as to update stock control levels.

    Regards

    John
    Failure makes improvements

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    Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

    John

    It is very easy with the QODBC driver. Very seamless integration can be achieved. There was great demonstration of this at the recent conference. Al Buchholz is the resident expert around here using it. I have not done so yet but I will be using the QODBC driver to integrate with my application in the next month or so.

    Regards,

    Jeff

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      #3
      Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

      Jeff

      Do you know if alpha can lookup a quickbooks file or do you have to import the data into alpha and vice versa.

      I hope this makes sense

      John
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        #4
        Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

        Hi John,

        ODBC, and Specifically, QODBC are live connections to the data between Alpha 5 and whatever the ODBC driver is designed for. So the answer is that there is no importing, it is operating on the live data.
        Regards,

        Ira J. Perlow
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          #5
          Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

          Hi Ira

          Thanks for the reply

          My ability is limited to field rules and action scripting.

          Are you saying that my EPOS application will be able to lookup stock for a sale and then deplete the stock level by the quantity sold by looking directly into a quickbooks file

          Regards

          John
          Failure makes improvements

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            #6
            Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

            Originally posted by John Keogh View Post
            Are you saying that my EPOS application will be able to lookup stock for a sale and then deplete the stock level by the quantity sold by looking directly into a quickbooks file?
            Yes it can.

            btw - Jeff - thanks for the plug..
            Al Buchholz
            Bookwood Systems, LTD
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            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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              #7
              Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

              Hello Al

              Is this an advanced feature or will someone like me with limited ability be able to achieve a result

              John
              Failure makes improvements

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                #8
                Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                Originally posted by John Keogh View Post
                Hello Al

                Is this an advanced feature or will someone like me with limited ability be able to achieve a result

                John
                John

                That's a tough question. I don't know your ability, but you can do most of it in action scripting and then finalize it in xbasic.

                The first step that I suggest to anyone doing this is to work through the process manually. Do the Alpha steps and then use Quickbooks to do the things that you need it to do by typing in the information directly into Quickbooks.

                Once you are satisfied that this does what you want, then we can look at how this can be automated.

                Start with action scripting and SQL statements.

                What you are looking to do can be done.
                Al Buchholz
                Bookwood Systems, LTD
                Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                Occam's Razor - KISS
                Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                Albert Einstein

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                  #9
                  Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                  Thanks for the input Al

                  My ability is action scripting and field rules and a little bit of xbasic. Ultimately I get the result I need in the end. I use the script recorder to work out my xbasic steps and trawl through the message board for my advanced answers.

                  Any help would be appreciated.

                  I am going to download the simplist version of qickbooks to see if I can achieve my goal. Also looking into the driver need for alpha

                  Regards

                  John
                  Failure makes improvements

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                    #10
                    Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                    Al, how do you get the QODBC driver? Is it built into V8?

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                      Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                      http://www.qodbc.com
                      Al Buchholz
                      Bookwood Systems, LTD
                      Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                      Occam's Razor - KISS
                      Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                      Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                      When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                      "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                      Albert Einstein

                      http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                        Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                        Al

                        Thanks for the link.

                        I now feel I will get a result on my own

                        Regards

                        John
                        Failure makes improvements

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                          #13
                          Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                          Just an FYI, QODBC can't get at budget information directly ....

                          Glenn
                          Last edited by peterg000; 06-12-2007, 04:47 PM.

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                            #14
                            Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                            Fred

                            I think you have to buy that from Alpha.

                            I still have to figure that bit out myself

                            Regards

                            John
                            Failure makes improvements

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                              Re: Quickbooks and Alpha Talking To Each Other

                              hi Glenn

                              What do you mean by "budget information".

                              This is an expression I'm not familiar with in the UK, maybe I will have a different name for it.

                              Regards

                              John
                              Failure makes improvements

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