The QuickBooks ecosystem: a successful bet on interoperability
The interoperability of different applications centralized in a single tool is the basis of an open ecosystem (API). This model, similar to the Android or Apple environments, is being adopted by more and more application developers and publishers.
Like QuickBooks, which offers high-performance collaborative management and accounting solutions that can be connected free of charge to other applications, providing entrepreneurs with simple, complete and ever more effective ecosystems!
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QuickBooks, a successful application ecosystem
💡 An ecosystem of applications
An API (Applications Programming Interface) is an open library used to create a genuine "application ecosystem". It enables various tools and applications to be imported, and the interface to be customized according to users' needs.
QuickBooks is the world's No. 1 management and accounting solution for entrepreneurs, and at every stage of its development, it has endeavored to create an open application ecosystem. Designed to centralize the flow of all the tools used by entrepreneurs and chartered accountants, the QuickBooks ecosystem is today a complete solution that adapts to their needs.
QuickBooks enables users to connect their favorite applications and centralize them on a single platform. It can connect, for example, with :
- PayPal and Stripe, for online payment of invoices generated with QuickBooks ;
- Receipt Bank or Expensya, to import receipts into QuickBooks without manual entry;
- iScanner for scanning documents via the app and retrieving them in QuickBooks;
- erplain to manage stock and orders for your very small business;
- NoCRM for an advanced CRM interface.
The QuickBooks ecosystem is based on a user-focused philosophy that takes into account business issues. Self-employed entrepreneurs, chartered accountants and VSE/SME managers will find a user-centric environment, resolutely business-oriented and interconnected. The QuickBooks ecosystem is as easy to use as the App Store or Google Play Store!
💡 What is interoperability?
It's the ability of a system to work with other systems or programs, existing or future, without limitations (access, implementation).
QuickBooks, the fruit of collaboration between developers, entrepreneurs and chartered accountants
Facilitating the work of programmers and developers
QuickBooks offers resources to help developers integrate their apps into the QuickBooks environment. The QuickBooks ecosystem is open to all software publishers, free of charge. In keeping with the brand's universe, programs must offer a service to entrepreneurs, chartered accountants and small business managers.
Whether it's an online payment service, office automation, data security or any other business module, all can find their place within the QuickBooks ecosystem.
Today, some fifteen applications make up this ecosystem, which is constantly expanding. All meet QuickBooks' primary objective: to make life easier for its users.
Gathering user feedback
Numerous entrepreneurs and chartered accountants have described the day-to-day problems they encounter, enabling QuickBooks to create concrete, time-saving solutions. QuickBooks has been able to grow and enrich its offering thanks to the active listening of its partners and customers. Collaboration with expert developers has also always been at the heart of the ecosystem's development.
Consult the list of applications that can be connected to QuickBooks. You'll also find detailed information on their functionalities.
QuickBooks ecosystem features today... and tomorrow
QuickBooks enables entrepreneurs, small business managers and chartered accountants to manage their accounting online, facilitate collaboration and track their business activity in real time.
The QuickBooks ecosystem also gives them access to the following functionalities:
- Online payments with PayPal and Stripe, collections with EasyTransac ;
- Import of purchase receipts with Receipt Bank, expense reports with Expensya;
- Office automation, document scanning and importing with iScanner and Business Importer;
- BtoB order management with Pepperi, order and inventory management for small and medium-sized businesses with erplain;
- Interface and data sharing between chartered accountants and contractors with Loop, data import and modification with SaasAnt ;
- Sales contact and lead management with noCRM.io ;
- Collections management with LegalCity and Upflow, financing on unpaid customer invoices with Finexkap.
Managing inventories, orders and accounting entries, automating expense entry - everything in the QuickBooks ecosystem is designed to save time for entrepreneurs, chartered accountants and small business managers.
In addition, document import and export functionalities enable users to stay in touch with their professional world. Any document created in QuickBooks, such as an invoice, can be fully customized in the user's corporate colors.
The evolution of QuickBooks
A major feature of the QuickBooks ecosystem is its scalability. It adapts to the problems encountered by its users on a daily basis, and to the resources at their disposal.
Each user can provide feedback on any suggestions he or she may have, as well as ideas for improvements. QuickBooks is an ecosystem built on this feedback and real-life problems. This active collaboration between developers, business experts and VSE/SME users will even enable QuickBooks to welcome new applications into its environment in the very near future.
Open, interconnected and scalable, the QuickBooks ecosystem is focused on the day-to-day issues faced by entrepreneurs, chartered accountants and VSE/SME managers. It's this successful interoperability and user-centric approach that have made QuickBooks such a success! And it won't stop there... The ecosystem aims for continuous improvement: more applications, and ever more functionalities to facilitate the management, accounting and invoicing of entrepreneurs, in direct collaboration with their chartered accountants!
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