I’m curious about this Quickbooks Online integration as well. It seems odd that there is still no official connector to the most popular accounting software out there, is there a technical difficulty or lack of interest?
There are no technical difficulties, beyond the usual difficulties integrating with a 3rd party product.
As for the “why does this not exist?” question. I cannot speak for the minds of thousands of ERPNext enthusiasts and developers.
However. My opinion is:
It doesn’t exist, because no one is willing to pay for the development.
Or if they are willing to pay for the development, they don’t want their paid work being shared open source.
Finally, if you ask 30 developers what a “Quickbooks Integration” should look like?
You would get 30 completely different answers.
Does “integrate” mean accounting? Inventory? HR? Manufacturing? Single-directional integration or bi-directional? What about multi-company? Accounting dimensions? Currency?
If I spent the next 1 year writing one, when I was finished, probably 85% of people would say “that’s nice, but your integration doesn’t work for me, because we wanted ABC and XYZ, and yours doesn’t do that.” Knowing this, it’s hard to justify spending the time on it.
The best way for this to happen is for a charismatic leader to create a project, find the funding, convince and recruit developers, gather requirements from the community, build it, and keep updating it with every new release of Frappe/ERPNext.
Until such person reveals themselves on planet Earth, I’m doubtful we’ll see such a thing.
That seem strange, that still no wide offer of ERPNEXT for QUICKBOOKS.
QUICKBOOKS miss exactly possibilities of ERP.
ERPNEXT offer these possibilities.
Taking in consideration huge of number of QUICKBOOKS users - the commercial use of ERPNEXT modification for QB - might be successfull.