This is the public repository for users of SyncFreedom.com to simplify their development. The point of this project is to help you develop accounting utilities using the same python-quickbooks library that's used in typical web development. That library is well documented but is inaccessible to the layman without first creating a UI to collect auth codes. SyncFreedom handles the authorization aspect of the development allowing you to focus on your utility.
My goal in creating this service is to make python more accessible to accountants. I encourage accountants to use and adopt python as THE general purpose programing language for accountants.
The main difference between your development with the python-quickbooks package and this package is the QuickBooks class. Anytime you would normally use the QuickBooks class from the python-quickbooks package you would replace it with SyncFreedomQuickBooks class. The SyncFreedomQuickBooks is also different because it takes the company_id (realm_id) and your SyncFreedom credentials as arguments.
For example:
from syncfreedom.client import SyncFreedomQuickBooks
from quickbooks.objects.account import Account
credentials = {
'username':'your_syncfreedom_username',
'password':'your_syncfreedom_password'
}
qb = SyncFreedomQuickBooks(
company_id=self.company_id,
credentials=credentials
)
customers = Customer.all(qb=qb)
It is best practice to place your credentials in a config.ini file. Here is an example of the text in config.ini file:
[SYNCFREEDOM_CREDENTIALS]
username = your_syncfreedom_username
password = your_syncfreedom_password
[ENVIRONMENT_INFO]
environment=Production
sync_freedom_url=https://syncfreedom.com
When your credentials are inside the config.ini file you will access the credentials and use this package like the following example:
from syncfreedom.client import SyncFreedomQuickBooks
from quickbooks.objects.account import Account
from configparser import ConfigParser
configur = ConfigParser()
configur.read(r"""C:\your_file_path_to_the_config_file\config.ini"""))
credentials = configur['SYNCFREEDOM_CREDENTIALS']
qb = SyncFreedomQuickBooks(
company_id=self.company_id,
credentials=credentials
)
customers = Customer.all(qb=qb)
If you are trying to get the full list of connections in SyncFreedom use the SyncFreedomConnections class like the following:
from syncfreedom.client import SyncFreedomQuickBooks, SyncFreedomQBOConnections
from configparser import ConfigParser
configur = ConfigParser()
configur.read(r"""C:\your_file_path_to_the_config_file\config.ini"""))
credentials = configur['SYNCFREEDOM_CREDENTIALS']
qbo_connections = SyncFreedomQBOConnections(self.credentials)
#then create qb from the connections list
qbo_connection = qbo_connections.get_by_company_name('My Company Name')
qb = SyncFreedomQuickBooks(
company_id=qbo_connection.company_id,
credentials=credentials
)
customers = Customer.all(qb=qb)
