About QuickBooks qbXML Requests/Responses

Use the QuickBooks OSR (choose the command type from the 'Select Message' dropdown box):

• http://developer.intuit.com/qbsdk-current/common/newosr/index.html

You can find the .XSD schema files in the QuickBooks SDK. You should:

• Download and install the QuickBooks SDK
• Browse to: C:\Program Files\Intuit\IDN\Common\tools\validator\
• (I'm unsure of which .XSD files contain which schemas… ???)

You can also take a look at the .xml files that Intuit uses to produce the On-Screen Reference for QuickBooks that is shipped with the QuickBooks SDK:

• Download and install the QuickBooks SDK
• Browse to: C:\Program Files\Intuit\IDN\QBSDK7.0\docs
• The files you are interested in are “qbxmlops70.xml”, “qbxmlops60.xml”, and “qbxmlopsCA30.xml”

For Point of Sale editions, your qbXML requests change a little. They follow this format:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?qbposxml version="1.0"?>
<QBPOSXML>
<QBPOSXMLMsgsRq onError="stopOnError">
<CustomerQueryRq requestID="xyz">
...
</CustomerQueryRq>
</QBPOSXMLMsgsRq>
</QBPOSXML>

Things to check and keep in mind when working with qbXML:

• The order of tags in qbXML *is* important. If you don't use the same tag order as in the OSR, you'll get errors.

• Check the version of qbXML you're using <?qbxml version=”…”?>, older qbXML versions don't support all of the tags.

• Use the XML Validator tool included with the QuickBooks SDK

• Remember that some characters need to be converted to XML entities in XML:
  • & goes to &amp;
  • < goes to &lt;
  • > goes to &gt;
  • ” goes to &quot;

See: http://idnforums.intuit.com/messageview.aspx?catid=8&threadid=120&enterthread=y

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