>>........ He is just starting up and will only have the one cash drawer. I'm leaning toward QuickBooks. They have a total system, including barcode scanner, card reader, receipt printer, cash drawer and software for about 1200.00. That just leaves the pc. I can get to the data via an sdk, so it looks like the best buy for him..........
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>John,
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>You would have enjoyed the March 11, 2008 meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Users & Developers Group: our presenter was Rick Borup of ITA in Champaign, Illinois. He showed us QODBC, a data source for Quickbooks data, and how easy it is to develop an interface from a VFP app into Quickbooks.
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>In a nutshell, whatever process you might develop with the Quickbooks SDK can be accomplished with a fraction of the effort through QODBC. You might try to contact Rick to see where and when he might next be presenting this paper. ( http://www.ita-software.com/ ) Meanwhile, take a look at http://www.qodbc.com/schema.htm for an example of the quality of documentation available for this tool. Simply amazing.
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>Another member brought along a Quickbooks interface app he had done about 4 years ago. After seeing Rick's examples, he said "If I ever have to do this again, I would start over in QODBC".
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>For another POV, see Re: QuickBooks Sql String Thread #1302319 Message #1302620.
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>HTH,


Thanks Randy, I'll give that a look.