Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration

QuickBooks Online Integration for Magento 2 © Meetanshi

QuickBooks Online Integration for Magento 2

User Guide

Table of Content

1. Extension Installation Guide 2. QuickBooks API Configuration

3. Configuration 4. Account Type Settings

5. Customer Synchronization Settings 6. Products Synchronization Settings

7. Orders Synchronization Settings 8. Invoices Synchronization Settings

9. Credit Memos Synchronization

Settings

10. Tax and Country Settings

11. Developer Settings 12. Payment Methods Mapping

13. Tax Mapping 14. Sync Queue

15. History Logs 16. Synchronized Products in

QuickBooks

17. Customers, Orders, Invoices, Credit

Memos Grid after Synchronization

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1. Extension Installation • For Magento Marketplace Customers

o Find the Composer name and version of the extension in the extension’s composer.json file.

o Login to your SSH and run:

▪ composer require meetanshi/magento-2-quickbooks-online-integration

▪ composer require quickbooks/v3-php-sdk

o Enter your authentication keys. Your public key is your username; your private key is your

password.

o Wait for Composer to finish updating your project dependencies and make sure there

aren’t any errors.

o To verify that the extension installed properly, run the command:

▪ php bin/magento module:status Meetanshi_QBOnline

o By default, the extension is probably disabled.

o Enable the extension and clear static view files:

▪ php bin/magento module:enable Meetanshi_QBOnline --clear-static-content ▪ php bin/magento setup:upgrade ▪ For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ▪ For Magento version 2.2.x & above - php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy –f ▪ php bin/magento cache:flush

• For Meetanshi Customers

o Extract the zip folder and upload our extension to the root of your Magento 2 directory via FTP.

o Login to your SSH and run below commands step by step: ▪ composer require quickbooks/v3-php-sdk

▪ php bin/magento setup:upgrade ▪ For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy ▪ For Magento version 2.2.x & above - php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy –f ▪ php bin/magento cache:flush

Note: Make sure to configure the cron job to make the extension work smoothly.



https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/prereq/connect-auth.html


2. QuickBooks API Configuration Prior to configuring the extension, you need to configure the payment gateway for the API

connection. • First of all, go to https://accounts.intuit.com/index.html and login with your QuickBooks

Online Integration account credentials. Move to the dashboard and click on the Apps where

you can find apps if you have already added. Click “Create an App” to create a new app if you

haven’t created already. Click on the payment app you created to get the client ID, client

secret and add redirect URL.

• From here, click on “Keys and OAth” under the development/production mode. The values

under the client ID and client secret fields need to be copied and added to your Magento 2

extension configuration. Also, add the redirect URL as

https://yoursite.com/qbmspayment/connection/success and save the URL.



https://accounts.intuit.com/index.html

https://yoursite.com/qbmspayment/connection/success


3. Configuration For configuring the extension, login to Magento 2, move to Stores → Configuration →

Meetanshi → QuickBooks Online Integration, where you can find various settings to

configure the extension.

• QuickBooks Online Integration: Enable or disable QuickBooks Online Integration extension

from here.

• Sandbox Mode: Set YES to enable sandbox mode for the QuickBooks Online Integration.

• Client ID: Enter the client ID you have copied from the QuickBooks admin panel.

• Client Secret: Enter the client secret you have copied from the QuickBooks admin panel.




• After configuring the settings, save the configuration and click “Connect to QuickBooks” for

the API connectivity. You will get a new window to sign in with the QuickBooks credentials.

• Once you are signed in, the API will ask to select the company.




• After the company selection, you will get the API connection success message.

• After the API gets connected, close the window and refresh the Magento 2 configuration page

and you can see the “Connection Status” as connected.




4. Account Type Settings Click “Fetch All Accounts” to fetch and set 3 account types i.e asset account, expense account

and income account. If accounts don’t get auto selected, you have to set them manually.

5. Customer Synchronization Settings To synchronize the Magento 2 customers with the QuickBooks API, configure the settings below.

• Sync Mode: Select how you want to synchronize Magento 2 customers to QuickBooks.

o Immediately: Syncs customers immediately on account creation.

o Cron Job: Syncs customers on cron job run time and frequency.

▪ Frequency: Select cron job frequency to automate customer sync with QuickBooks.

▪ Start Time: Set start time of the cron job based on the set frequency.




6. Products Synchronization Settings To synchronize the Magento 2 products with the QuickBooks API, configure the settings below.

• Sync Mode: Select how you want to synchronize Magento 2 products to QuickBooks.

o Immediately: Syncs products immediately on creation.

o Cron Job: Syncs products on cron job run time and frequency.

▪ Frequency: Select cron job frequency to automate products sync with QuickBooks.


• Sync Product Name: Select what you want to set as product name for QuickBooks products.

• Sync Product Description: Select what you want to set as product description for

QuickBooks products.

• Track Product Inventory: Select YES to track product inventory in QuickBooks.

• Strip HTML: Select YES to strip HTML tags from product description.

7. Orders Synchronization Settings To synchronize the Magento 2 orders with the QuickBooks API, configure the settings below.

• Sync Mode: Select how you want to synchronize Magento 2 orders to QuickBooks.

o Immediately: Syncs orders immediately on placement.

o Cron Job: Syncs orders on cron job run time and frequency.

▪ Frequency: Select cron job frequency to automate orders sync with QuickBooks.


• Order Prefix: Enter order prefix for order reference in QuickBooks.




8. Invoices Synchronization Settings To synchronize the Magento 2 invoices with the QuickBooks API, configure the settings below.

• Sync Mode: Select how you want to synchronize Magento 2 invoices to QuickBooks.

o Immediately: Syncs invoices immediately on generation.

o Cron Job: Syncs invoices on cron job run time and frequency.

▪ Frequency: Select cron job frequency to automate invoices sync with QuickBooks.


9. Credit Memos Synchronization Settings To synchronize the Magento 2 credit memos with the QuickBooks API, configure the settings

below.

• Sync Mode: Select how you want to synchronize Magento 2 credit memos to QuickBooks.

o Immediately: Syncs credit memos immediately on generation.

o Cron Job: Syncs credit memos on cron job run time and frequency.

▪ Frequency: Select cron job frequency to automate credit memos sync with QuickBooks.


• Credit Memo Prefix: Enter credit memo prefix for credit memo reference in QuickBooks.

10. Tax and Country Settings Set tax country to sync tax class with QuickBooks.

11. Developer Settings Select YES to enable debug log.




12. Payment Methods Mapping After the configuration settings, move to QuickBooks Online Integration → Payment

Methods Mapping to map Magento 2 payment methods with QuickBooks. First of all, click

“Add All Payment Methods” button to add all the Magento 2 payment methods to the list in

the grid and then, click “Synchronize” to sync each payment method with QuickBooks API.

• To see the mapped payment methods in QuickBooks, from the QuickBooks dashboard, click

on Settings → Lists → All Lists → Payment Methods where you can see all the mapped

payment methods.



https://app.sandbox.qbo.intuit.com/


13. Tax Mapping Move to QuickBooks Online Integration → Tax Mapping to map Magento 2 tax classes with

QuickBooks. First of all, click “Add All Tax Code” button to add all the Magento 2 tax codes to

the list in the grid and then, click “Synchronize” to sync each tax code with QuickBooks API.

• To see the mapped tax codes in QuickBooks, from the QuickBooks dashboard, click on

Taxes from the sidebar where you can see all the mapped tax codes.





14. Sync Queue If your store is already having customers, products, orders, invoices, credit memos and want all

of them to sync with QuickBooks after the extension installation, move to QuickBooks Online

Integration → Sync Queue. Click “Add Customers”, “Add Products”, “Add Orders”, “Add

Invoices”, “Add Credit Memos” one by one in the same order as mentioned to add all here in

the sync queue. Click on “Synchronization” button to sync them gradually with QuickBooks.




15. History Logs After synchronization is done, the status of each entity is shown with the details on the separate

grid in backend at QuickBooks Online Integration → History Logs. If the data is

synchronized right, the status will be success else if there’s problem during data sync, it will

show error status.




16. Synchronized Products in QuickBooks After successful synchronization of Magento 2 products, move to Sales → Products and

Services from the QuickBooks dashboard where you can see all the products listed.





17. Customers, Orders, Invoices, Credit Memos Grid after Synchronization After synchronization of customers, orders, invoices and credit memos in QuickBooks, if you

check the backend grid of individual, you can see QBO ID for each entity. • Customers Grid with QBO Customer ID

After the successful synchronization of customers to QuickBooks, move to Customers → All

Customers to see QBO customer ID. The admin can select multiple customers and use “Sync

to QuickBooks” mass action to sync them manually.




To see the mapped customers in QuickBooks, from the QuickBooks dashboard, click on

Sales → Customers.





• Orders Grid with QBO Order ID

After the successful synchronization of orders to QuickBooks, move to Sales → Orders to see

QBO order ID. The admin can select multiple orders and use “Sync to QuickBooks” mass

action to sync them manually.

• Invoices Grid with QBO Invoice ID

After the successful synchronization of invoices to QuickBooks, move to Sales → Invoices to

see QBO invoice ID. The admin can select multiple invoices and use “Sync to QuickBooks”

mass action to sync them manually.




To see the mapped orders and invoices in QuickBooks, from the QuickBooks dashboard,

click on Sales → All Sales → Invoices.





• Credit Memos Grid with QBO Credit Memo ID

After the successful synchronization of credit memos to QuickBooks, move to Sales → Credit

Memos to see QBO credit memo ID. The admin can select multiple credit memos and use

“Sync to QuickBooks” mass action to sync them manually.



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Magento 2 QuickBooks Online Integration