Integrating Multiple Accounting Tools for Information Exchange

This article will be helpful for those developers who are trying to integrate multiple accounting tools with a custom web or desktop application; with the accounting tool database exposed either using ODBC/JDBC or APIs.

The solution was explored when I worked in a project where there was a need to automate the data transmission (bi-directional) between different accounting tools (like Adagio, QB Desktop and Online version, etc.) interfacing with a central database. And make it possible for devices (like iPhone) to transmit data to the central database and subsequently to the accounting tools. In a nutshell, the main application, devices and multiple accounting tools needed to be in sync all the time/whenever required.

The Solution

The major features that were provided/implemented:

• Connector: it acts as a bridge between web API and desktop/online accounting tool.
• Data transmission between different entities using customized XML
• Logging request and response on each event with a different status
• The parser in the background (it basically parses the data from XML and maps it with the database)
• Common database structure to handle request and response for different tools

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