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QuickBooks Online Accounting API

REST API for the QuickBooks Online accounting platform, exposing accounting objects such as Invoice, Customer, Payment, Bill, Vendor, Account, Item, Estimate, JournalEntry, and TaxRate over JSON with OAuth 2.0 authentication.

QuickBooks Online Accounting API is one of 3 APIs that QuickBooks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Accounting, Invoices, Customers, Payments, and OAuth 2.0. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and an AsyncAPI specification.

This event API exposes 1 operation across 1 channel, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by AsyncAPI 2.6.0, at version 1.0.0.

The API connects through a single server, {webhookEndpointUrl} (https).

1 operations 1 channels 8 schemas

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
AsyncAPI 2.6.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company
Resource Areas
1

Channels & Operations 1

Across 1 channel, the API surfaces 1 operation. Each is listed below with its action, channel, parameters, and response codes.

Channels 1
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/quickbooks/webhook
Receive a QuickBooks Online webhook notification
receiveQuickBooksOnlineWebhook body

Messages & Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data carried by its messages. The most detailed are Entity (5 properties), WebhookHeaders (2 properties), EventNotification (2 properties), WebhookNotification (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

QuickBooksOnlineWebhookNotification
message
Batched data-change events for one or more QuickBooks Online companies.
WebhookHeaders
object
HTTP headers QuickBooks Online sets on every webhook delivery. Only the headers that are load-bearing for verification are modelled here.
2 properties 2 required
WebhookNotification
object
Top-level webhook envelope. A single delivery can carry events for multiple QuickBooks Online companies; each EventNotification is scoped to one realmId.
1 property 1 required
EventNotification
object
Data-change events that occurred within the aggregation window for a single QuickBooks Online company (realmId).
2 properties 2 required
DataChangeEvent
object
Wrapper around the list of affected entities.
1 property 1 required
Entity
object
A single QuickBooks Online entity affected by a Create, Update, Delete, Merge, or Void operation. The full record is not included; subscribers fetch it from th…
5 properties 4 required
EntityName
string
QuickBooks Online entity type whose record changed. The set below lists the entities documented as supported by QuickBooks Online Data Services webhooks.
Operation
string
The kind of change that occurred to the entity. Not every operation is valid for every entity; consult the Intuit Developer webhooks documentation for the per-…

Specification

The full machine-readable AsyncAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

quickbooks-online-webhooks-asyncapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs QuickBooks publishes across the network.

QuickBooks Payments API
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