FatFree CRM & QuickBooks

On 02/18/2010 · 2 Comments

Having been in the internet works with over 100,000 transactions, I have found a big problem with online and accounting. No accounting system I have found integrates well with traditional computer accounting systems.

While accounting was one of the first areas to be automated by computers, web software (in my estimation) has not handled this data well. While there are huge systems that cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to integrate with extensive accounting systems, there is a hole in the market for smaller companies. If you are looking to work with the large systems, give my friend Tom McFayden a call, but I am not at that level right now.

My current customer relationship management (CRM) system for CityCentric is FatFree CRM. While I love the open source and easy to develop backend of Fat Free, I want to have the double entry accounting and management of QuickBooks for each customer.

With WordPress managing a front end, FatFree CRM managing my CRM, PayFlow Pro managing my payment processing and QuickBooks managing my bank account and bills, there is too much going on at once. Right now, I am working on solving this problem and I will keep you updated, but if you have any ideas or thoughts, please let me know.

 
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2 Responses to FatFree CRM & QuickBooks

  1. Daryl Auclair says:
    11/10/2010 at 8:44 am

    I share your passion and pain. I run a web development company and would like to integrate our CRM (FatFree) with our accounting (Quickbooks Online Edition). I would also like to allow our customers to login to our website to view their current and past statements and make payments online (authorize.net).

    It does not look like there are any quick fixes at the moment, so I am likely going to have to set aside a few weekends to code a custom solution for my needs. I’m currently looking into the Quickbooks API and have found a PHP 5 Quickbooks integration framework that looks promising: https://idnforums.intuit.com/messageview.aspx?catid=56&threadid=9164

    Best of luck to you!

  2. admin says:
    11/10/2010 at 7:38 pm

    Daryl,

    At this point, I still don’t have a great solution, why in this day in age there is nothing for the $0 – $10M company to manage this boggles my mind.

    Not everyone is spending money on Oracle or wants to send their weekends coding things that should be simple.

    Intuit has been largely the de-facto standard and won on a mostly closed platform. I feel they may end up loosing in the long run to SaaS providers or options with a more open data philosophy.

    Let me know what you come up with!

    All the Best,

    Matt

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