Quickbooks Connect Tutorial

This is a simple tutorial to connect to external API's using OAuth 2.0

Technologies Used

• Python
• Flask
• Requests

Setup

• Create a .env file and add the following variables:

CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
REDIRECT_URI=your_redirect_uri
QB_BASE_URL=your_qb_base_url
REDIRECT_URI="your-redirect-url"
QB_BASE_URL="your-qb-base-url"
QB_TOKEN_URL="https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer"
QB_COMPANY_ID="your-company-id"
QB_ENV="sandbox"
AUTHORIZATION_URL="your-auth-url"
TOKEN_URL="your-token-url"

• Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the app:

python app.py

• Open http://localhost:5500 in your browser
  • Click on Connect to Quickbooks
  • Login to your Quickbooks account
  • Allow the app to access your Quickbooks account
• You should now see your Quickbooks company info