Intuit Anywhere previews with FreshBooks

A few months ago, our friends at Intuit invited FreshBooks to be among the first few partners of Intuit Anywhere, their new platform that connects web applications to data in QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online. Today, although it is not yet available to users, Intuit began previewing Intuit Anywhere for developers and media.

It’s hard to overstate how wonderful it is to have online access to data in QuickBooks on the desktop and QuickBooks Online. For years, FreshBooks customers have asked for a high quality data integration with QuickBooks. Unfortunately, without a great way to get the data, we never felt we could provide a great user experience to FreshBooks customers.

Intuit Anywhere makes this possible. The whole experience is based on the familiar “OAuth” flow that popular services like Twitter and Google use to share data easily between web applications. FreshBooks customers will be able to connect to QuickBooks starting from inside FreshBooks—and that makes all the difference.

Intuit customers will also be able to connect to FreshBooks from inside QuickBooks Online through the Intuit App Center. It’s also hard to overstate how great it is that Intuit keeps investing to introduce their millions of small business customers to cloud services.

We’re also happy to see Intuit, a fellow member of The Small Business Web, invest heavily in Open APIs to get the job done. Intuit Anywhere is good news for the Web.

Help us out. Want to be a beta customer?

As you know, we don’t often talk about our product roadmap. While we know many of you are itching to try this out, the connector is not ready yet.

We will need your help make sure this connector is up to your standards before we ship it. If you are willing to be a QuickBooks connector beta customer, please let us know.