[hermes] Integration with Quickbooks

[Jason M. Felice]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting "Jason M. Felice" <jfelice at cronosys.com>:
>
>> If neither of those is possible, it looks like we'll have to use qbXML
>> interactively.  If so, I'm confliced on how to implement that.  I don't
>> like the idea of a web-server making outbound connections to a
>> QuickBooks running on some PC, and a standalone program introduces more
>> complexity.  I suppose the standalone program is the way to go, but let
>> the server track state and drive the process once connected.
>
> For what it's worth, the way this seems to work with my bank and
> Quicken is that I download a qbxml file that tells Quicken how to
> connect to the bank. So we could theoretically generate a small file
> that told Quickbooks how to talk to the Horde server - at least it
> avoids the server initiating connections.
>
> -chuck

Sounds neat.

Still prefer flat file to this, but this would make the interactive 
method more tolerable. :)

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