November 21, 2019 | Amy Ball

From an accountant’s perspective: The importance of user-friendly training guides for apps

An app’s user-friendliness is in the eye of the beholder. For example, as a developer of an app for accountants, you know exactly how your app works (as you should—you came up with the great idea in the first place!) and the app, to you, seems pretty darn user friendly... Read more

November 19, 2019 | Intuit Developer Team

What’s new in QuickBooks Online: November 2019

This is another article in an ongoing series about new features and improvements in QuickBooks Online. The holiday season is upon us and the days are shorter, making it seem like everyone has a little less time to get things done. Some new features and improvements in….. Read more

November 14, 2019 | Amy Ball

Meet members of the Intuit Developer team

Here at Intuit Developer, our team is a diverse group of individuals with a mix of personalities, backgrounds, and interests, all coalescing into a team with a single goal: Supporting you on your quest to build awesome apps within the QuickBooks ecosystem. Curious to know who we actually are? To….. Read more

November 6, 2019 | Intuit Developer Team

Reminder: Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10

You may already know that, as of Jan. 1, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7. What does this mean for app developers? Computers running on Windows 7 will be more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. As an app developer,….. Read more

November 4, 2019 | Intuit Developer Team

Intuit receives API award for the QuickBooks Platform

Intuit recently received recognition in the API (application program interface) 300, a report that highlights some of the top companies who have made their imprint, and innovations, in API technology and cloud-based software and hardware. Intuit was specifically awarded for the Intuit QuickBooks platform, identified for its business software….. Read more

October 31, 2019 | Amy Ball

The importance of creating an intuitive app UI for accountants

As developers, you know just how busy life is as you pound out the code for your app, and handle a million other tasks each and every day. You also know that accountants and small business folk, the main users of your app, are extremely busy as well. They expect….. Read more

October 29, 2019 | Intuit Developer Team

What's new in QuickBooks Online: October 2019

In order for our developers to be more aware of functionality in QuickBooks® Online, this is another in a series of blogs that focuses on new features and improvements.. Check back monthly for more updates. The following is the article that ran on the QuickBooks blog... Read more

October 24, 2019 | Amy Ball

Why a product roadmap and accountant feedback are critical in app selection and development

With so many apps entering the market every day for accountants to use with their clients, how do you make your app stand above the rest? How do you develop an app that accountants and consumers want to use? Matthew Fulton, co-founder and CTO of….. Read more

October 22, 2019 | Lisa Tesler

OAuth 1.0 migration – Step 7: Migrate existing users in about 2 hours

If you’ve already implemented OAuth 2.0, but you’re still using OAuth 1.0 tokens for existing users, it usually only takes 1 to 2 hours to migrate those tokens to OAuth 2.0. Before you take this step, be sure that you’ve already updated your application to accept….. Read more

October 22, 2019 | Lisa Tesler

OAuth 1.0 migration – Step 6: Enable OAuth 2.0 for new users

Still using OAuth 1.0, even for your new users? If you haven’t built and tested your OAuth 2.0 functionality yet, you’ll likely find it’s much easier to implement the OAuth 2.0 than it was to implement OAuth 1.0. According to our latest research, developers who’ve migrated spent 20 to 40….. Read more