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⇱ Connect to QuickBooks Online from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for QuickBooks Online

Connect to QuickBooks Online from Asprova with CData ODBC Driver for QuickBooks Online

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
This article shows how to connect faster to QuickBooks Online data from Asprova.

The CData ODBC driver for QuickBooks Online enables you to access QuickBooks Online data from Asprova. In this article, you will import QuickBooks Online data into item data in Asprova as an example.

About QuickBooks Online Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from QuickBooks Online. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Realize high-performance data reads thanks to push-down query optimization for complex operations like filters and aggregations.
  • Read, write, update, and delete QuickBooks Online data.
  • Run reports, download attachments, and send or void invoices directly from code using SQL stored procedures.
  • Connect securely using OAuth and modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, and ECC.

Many users access live QuickBooks Online data from preferred analytics tools like Power BI and Excel, directly from databases with federated access, and use CData solutions to easily integrate QuickBooks Online data with automated workflows for business-to-business communications.

For more information on how customers are solving problems with CData's QuickBooks Online solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/360-view-of-your-customers.


Getting Started


Asprova setting

  1. Click File -> Data I/O Settings.

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  2. Double click the header of Item and open the Edit I/O dialog.

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  3. Select "No" from the RDB transaction combo box and close the dialog.

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Data driver setting

  1. Select "OLE DB" from combo box in "Data source" column.

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  2. Click button in Folder/database column and open the Data Link Property dialog. Select "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers" from the list of data provider.

  3. Select the Connection tab. Check "Use data source name" and select "CData QuickBooks Online Source" from DSN combo box.

  4. Click the Test Connection button and make sure you see the message "Connection successful".

Schema setting

  1. Click the button in "External table name" column and open the Table List dialog. Make sure tables in QuickBooks Online are listed in the dialog.

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  2. Click the button in "Field mapping" column and open the Item-Field Mapping dialog.

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  3. Open the context menu in the space between tables and click Delete All. Link corresponding fields by dragging mouse.

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  4. Click File > Import and data will be imported into Asprova.

Check data

Click Table View > Item. Be sure you can see the item data stored in QuickBooks Online.

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QuickBooks Online ODBC Driver

The QuickBooks Online ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from QuickBooks Online, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access QuickBooks Online data like you would a database - read, write, and update Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.