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ElenaLarrabee1's avatar
ElenaLarrabee1
Qrew Captain
8 months ago

QuickBooks Online APIs & oauth

Hey all, I'm in the very beginning stages of setting up a couple of API calls (send via "make request" step in pipelines) to QuickBooks Online. I have searched for an example of a successful implementation somewhere in the forums but can't find one. The article on Base-Books pipelines makes a reference at the very end to more information regarding using API calls to add sub-customers and rates, but I haven't been able to find it. 

I've got all the QBO-side API documentation, but I'm a bit stuck and would just love to look through an actual functional API call. 

Does anyone have a good example they'd be willing to share with me, or know of an app with an example in the exchange maybe? 

Thank you! 

#quickbooks #APIsandcustomcode #Pipelines #oauth2



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Elena Larrabee
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APIs and custom code
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  • MarceloBenavide's avatar
    MarceloBenavide
    Qrew Cadet
    8 months ago

    Good morning Elena, this is Marcelo ,  Can I know if you have any problem/issue whit API call?

    Thak you

    Marcelo Benavides Torres



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  • Jamelle's avatar
    Jamelle
    Qrew Member
    8 months ago

    Elena Im trying to figure out the Oauth setting too on the POST request. 

    Username is Client ID
    Password is Client Secret

    Token URL is https://oauth.platform.intuit.com/oauth2/v1/tokens/bearer
    Oauth credential placement is body
    URL is https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/<company_id_here>/estimate?minorversion=1 (make sure you put your company ID in that URL)

    But where do we set State and Scope?

    here is a picture of how I got the OAuth working in Postman, I'm just having a hard time translating it to the Quickbase Post Request



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    • ElenaLarrabee1's avatar
      ElenaLarrabee1
      Qrew Captain
      8 months ago

      Thank you Jamelle! 

      For scope and state, is there a way to set them in the actual request body in the pipeline? I've been referencing the QBO API explorer, I wonder if they specify. 

      Here's my very basic question - where are you actually going to get your client id and client secret? 



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      • Jamelle's avatar
        Jamelle
        Qrew Member
        8 months ago

        Elena, you get the client ID and secret by logging into the Quickbooks developer portal and creating a test application it's normally here

        https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/myapps

        They when you go there to the development Application, it's under Keys and Credentials. I also remembered to get it to work with Postman I needed a redirect URL to postman, but I think that's just to get the auth token to use in the post request. So hopefully after a Request, we can use the JSONP Response to parse out the Auth Token that is generated to then use in another request later. But right now I am stumped on where I would put State and Scope, because I just don't know.



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