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QuickBooks Desktop API

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Bill Check Payments
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Credit Card Charges
Credit Card Credits
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Invoices
Item Receipts
Journal Entries
Purchase Orders
Receive-Payments
Sales Orders
Sales Receipts
Time Tracking Activities
Transfers
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Account Tax Lines
Accounts
Classes
Company
Customers / Jobs
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Employees
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Preferences
Price Levels
Sales Representatives
Sales-Tax Codes
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Vendors

Items

Discount Items
Inventory Assembly Items
Inventory Items
Item Groups
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Non-Inventory Items
Sales-Tax Items
Service Items
Subtotal Items

Missing QBD types

We’re excited to announce a major update to conductor-node that brings full support for Conductor’s new QuickBooks Desktop API v2. This new version introduces significant improvements in usability, consistency, and functionality.

Though the old version of conductor-node will continue to work, it will not receive any further updates. We strongly recommend upgrading to take advantage of the new features and improvements.

Key improvements

Our new QuickBooks Desktop API v2 has been completely redesigned from the ground up. We’ve carefully chosen every field name, parameter, and method description to be significantly more intuitive and clearer than QuickBooks’s original documentation. The API structure has been simplified while maintaining full functionality.

Major improvements include:

Automatic pagination support
Automatic retries with exponential backoff
Configurable timeouts
Improved parameter and fields names
Completely rewritten inline documentation
New methods like .retrieve() and .delete()
All fields included in responses
Consistent array handling

How to upgrade

npm install conductor-node@latest

Breaking changes

No QuickBooks or Conductor business logic has changed! We’ve simply made the interface simpler, more intuitive, and more robust, while adding new features like automatic pagination and retries.

⚠️ Functional Changes

⚠️ Naming and Structure Changes

Old:

import Conductor from "conductor-node";

const conductor = new Conductor("{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}");

New: You can now automatically load your secret key from the CONDUCTOR_SECRET_KEY environment variable (or pass it to the constructor as an argument like before):

import Conductor from "conductor-node";

const conductor = new Conductor({
  apiKey: process.env["CONDUCTOR_SECRET_KEY"], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

Old: Singular resource names.

await conductor.qbd.bill.*
await conductor.qbd.invoice.*
await conductor.qbd.itemInventory.*

New: Plural resource names and clearer naming.

await conductor.qbd.bills.*
await conductor.qbd.invoices.*
await conductor.qbd.inventoryItems.*

Old: Odd naming conventions.

await conductor.qbd.bill.query(...)
await conductor.qbd.bill.add(...)
await conductor.qbd.bill.mod(...)

New: Intuitive naming following REST conventions.

await conductor.qbd.bills.list(...)
await conductor.qbd.bills.create(...)
await conductor.qbd.bills.update(...)
await conductor.qbd.bills.retrieve(...) // New!
await conductor.qbd.bills.delete(...) // New!

Old: Required as its own argument.

await conductor.qbd.bill.query("end_usr_1234abcd", { ... });

New: Required as a conductorEndUserId parameter in the parameters object.

await conductor.qbd.bills.list({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
  // ... other params
});

All request parameters are now in camelCase and have been renamed for clarity and consistency. Most of the changes are straightforward that you can find using autocomplete in your IDE or checking the APIs in the sidebar.

Old: Odd naming conventions.

await conductor.qbd.bill.add("end_usr_1234abcd", {
  VendorRef: { ListID: "..." },
  RefNumber: "...",
  ExpenseLineAdd: [
    {
      Amount: "1.00",
    },
  ],
});

New: camelCase and clearer naming.

await conductor.qbd.bills.create({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
  vendorId: "...",
  refNumber: "...",
  expenseLines: [
    {
      amount: "1.00",
    },
  ],
});

All output fields are now in camelCase and have been renamed for clarity and consistency. Most of the changes are straightforward that you can find using autocomplete in your IDE or checking the APIs in the sidebar.

Here are some key renamed fields:

TxnID and ListID → id
TimeCreated and TimeModified → createdAt and updatedAt
EditSequence → revisionNumber
*Ref fields (e.g., CustomerRef) → simplified (e.g., customer)

Old: Odd naming conventions.

const invoice = await conductor.qbd.invoice.query("end_usr_1234abcd", "...");
// {
//   TxnID: "...",
//   TimeCreated: "...",
//   TimeModified: "...",
//   EditSequence: "...",
//   TxnNumber: "...",
//   CustomerRef: {
//     ListID: "...",
//     FullName: "..."
//   }
// }

New: camelCase and clearer naming.

const invoice = await conductor.qbd.invoices.retrieve({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
  id: "...",
});
// {
//   id: "...",
//   objectType: "qbd_invoice",
//   createdAt: "...",
//   updatedAt: "...",
//   revisionNumber: "...",
//   transactionNumber: "...",
//   customer: {
//     id: "...",
//     fullName: "..."
//   }
// }

Old: Odd naming conventions and complex structure.

const invoices = await conductor.qbd.invoice.query("end_usr_1234abcd", {
  ModifiedDateRangeFilter: {
    FromModifiedDate: "...",
    ToModifiedDate: "...",
  },
  AccountFilter: {
    ListID: "...",
  },
  RefNumberFilter: "...",
  RefNumberRangeFilter: {
    FromRefNumber: "...",
    ToRefNumber: "...",
  },
  MaxReturned: 100,
});

New: Significantly simplified structure and clearer naming.

const invoices = await conductor.qbd.invoices.list({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
  updatedAfter: "...",
  updatedBefore: "...",
  accountId: "...",
  refNumber: "...",
  refNumberFrom: "...",
  refNumberTo: "...",
  limit: 100,
});

To support automatic pagination, the query/list method now returns results in an object wrapper with properties for pagination metadata.

Old: Returns an array of results directly.

const invoices = await conductor.qbd.invoice.query("end_usr_1234abcd");
// [
//   {
//     TxnID: "...",
//     TimeCreated: "...",
//     ...
//   }
// ]

New: Returns results in an object wrapper with properties for pagination metadata.

const response = await conductor.qbd.invoices.list({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
});

console.log(response);
// {
//   nextCursor: "...",
//   hasMore: true,
//   remainingCount: 100,
//   data: [
//     {
//       id: "...",
//       objectType: "qbd_invoice",
//       createdAt: "...",
//       ...
//     }
//   ]
// }

Fields that can have multiple values are now always arrays, even when there’s only one record:

const response = await conductor.qbd.invoices.list({
  conductorEndUserId: "end_usr_1234abcd",
});

// All responses with potential multiple records use arrays consistently
console.log(response.data[0].lines); // Always an array, even if there's only one line

New features

You can now easily paginate through all results. See the automatic pagination section of the README for more details.

async function fetchAllQbdInvoices(params) {
  const allQbdInvoices = [];
  // Automatically fetches more pages as needed
  for await (const invoice of conductor.qbd.invoices.list({
    conductorEndUserId: "{{YOUR_END_USER_ID}}",
    ...params,
  })) {
    allQbdInvoices.push(invoice);
  }
  return allQbdInvoices;
}

All objects now have a retrieve method and all transaction objects have a delete method.

await conductor.qbd.bills.retrieve({ conductorEndUserId: "...", id: "..." });
await conductor.qbd.bills.delete({ conductorEndUserId: "...", id: "..." });

More information

For more detailed information about the new Node.js SDK, please check its GitHub repository.

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​Key improvements

​How to upgrade

​Breaking changes

​⚠️ Functional Changes

​⚠️ Naming and Structure Changes

​New features

​More information

Key improvements

How to upgrade

Breaking changes

⚠️ Functional Changes

⚠️ Naming and Structure Changes

New features

More information