QuickBooks Online Accounting API

QuickBooks Online Accounting API

REST API for managing QuickBooks Online accounting entities including Customer, Vendor, Employee, Item, Invoice, Bill, Payment, BillPayment, JournalEntry, Account, TaxCode, and Company information. All requests are scoped to a company realm and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0 bearer access token issued by the Intuit Developer authorization server.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
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GettingStarted
https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started
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Authentication
https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/authentication-and-authorization/oauth-2.0

Other Resources

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Sandbox
https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId}
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API Explorer
https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/most-commonly-used/account
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickbooks-accounting/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: quickbooks-accounting:accounting-api
name: QuickBooks Online Accounting API
description: REST API for managing QuickBooks Online accounting entities including Customer, Vendor, Employee,
  Item, Invoice, Bill, Payment, BillPayment, JournalEntry, Account, TaxCode, and Company information.
  All requests are scoped to a company realm and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0 bearer access token issued
  by the Intuit Developer authorization server.
humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
baseURL: https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId}
tags:
- Accounting
- Invoicing
- Bookkeeping
- REST API
- Authentication
tags_raw:
- Accounting
- Invoicing
- Bookkeeping
- REST API
- OAuth 2.0
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/authentication-and-authorization/oauth-2.0
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId}
- type: API Explorer
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/most-commonly-used/account