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Since lawyers bill for their time, the key components Amicus Attorney shares with QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2002 are time tracking records or transactions and Customer/Job data. The integration also enables the information exchange of QuickBooks Job Types, Vendors, Service Items, and Employees and Reps, with the corresponding data in Amicus Attorney. A preference even allows customers to take advantage of QuickBooks Classes.

Matthew Chapel, Attorney at Law, is thrilled. He had been using both programs for his one-man practice. When he learned that he could make the two applications talk to each other, he was quick to take advantage of it. As soon as he had the link established, Chapel caught up with his invoicing backlog, billing for $10,000 in one memorable evening.

Take a look at all of Amicus Attorney’s five-star reviews on the QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace.

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I occasionally get questions from developers about Intuit Interchange Format (iif), and why it’s being replaced with the SDK. Here’s why.

The iif has been available in QuickBooks for a handful of years. The iif mechanism is not as sophisticated as the SDK. Essentially, it's a scheme by which one can import data into QuickBooks from a text file.

The QuickBooks SDK, on the other hand, is a robust XML-based structured data system. There's no ambiguity in the format. Every single component of the XML message is validated at runtime by QuickBooks to ensure not just syntax correctness, but also semantics. For example, if the XML represents an invoice, but the customer referenced in the invoice doesn't exist, QuickBooks is able to give back an appropriately detailed signal to the 3rd party application as to what's wrong.

The QuickBooks SDK also puts the users in control, by alerting them about which data third-party applications are attempting to access. The user can apply standard QuickBooks roles & permissions to the application, allowing detailed accountability.

The QuickBooks SDK also provides sophisticated error recovery. If someone pulls the plug halfway through an import operation, the third-party application has the ability to quickly determine precisely how far QuickBooks got with respect to processing the request. Precision counts. For example, an application making deposits to an account would not want any ambiguity as to whether or not all of the deposits had been committed.

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