# QuickBooks Desktop API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-desktop/  
**Provider:** Intuit — https://apis.io/providers/intuit/  
**Documentation:** https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/api-reference/qbdesktop

QuickBooks Desktop API is one of 11 APIs that [Intuit](https://apis.io/providers/intuit/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Accounting, Desktop, Financial, and Small Business. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The QuickBooks Desktop API allows developers to integrate with QuickBooks Desktop applications using qbXML messages. It provides capabilities for adding, querying, modifying, and deleting data across list objects, transaction objects, query objects, and report objects, enabling third-party applications to interact with on-premise QuickBooks installations.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **APIReference** — https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/api-reference/qbdesktop
- **Documentation** — https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/api-reference

## Other Intuit APIs (10)

- [Intuit APIs](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/intuit/)
- [QuickBooks Payments API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-payments/)
- [QuickBooks Payroll and Time API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-payroll-time/)
- [QuickBooks Projects API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-projects/)
- [QuickBooks Custom Fields API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-custom-fields/)
- [QuickBooks Sales Tax API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/quickbooks-sales-tax/)
- [Intuit Customers API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/intuit-customers-api/)
- [Intuit Invoices API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/intuit-invoices-api/)
- [Intuit Items API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/intuit-items-api/)
- [Intuit Payments API](https://apis.io/apis/intuit/intuit-payments-api/)

## Tags

Accounting, Desktop, Financial, Small Business

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