[Fedora-directory-users] add new customer to Quickbooks from Directory Server

[Darren Fulton - CTI]

Disclaimer:  Shot in the dark and possibly off-topic. 

Situation:  We add client contacts to our Fedora Directory Server.  The 
billing department has to also manually add client contacts into 
Quickbooks to generate bills and such.

Goal:  Make it so the client contacts only have to be manually added 
into only one system.

Proposed Solutions:  Make Quickbooks look for clients in the directory 
_or_ create a simple way to export from the directory client contact 
info (I think Quickbooks uses an IIF file).  [BTW, wouldn't it be cool 
if there was a link in Directory Express web app to generate this like 
the vCard link?]

Question for List: 
Has anybody had any experience getting either of these done that they 
would like to share? 

Final Disclaimer:  Google searches revealed one or more commercial 
third-party applications that allow Quickbooks to "integrate" with 
LDAP.  A quick look at these programs didn't impress me, but I have 
_not_ tested them.  Google searches also revealed a Finance::IIF perl 
module that I will keep in mind.  Thank you for any input.


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Best Regards,

Darren Fulton
Concept Technology, Inc.
1106 17th Avenue South
Nashville, TN  37212

Phone - 615.321.6428  Ext. 105
Fax   - 615.321.5598