Quickbook online auto-login

Question

We have a user dashboard and we are using QuickBooks PHP DevKit (https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php) to add invoices in QuickBook.

We want to have a link in our user dashboard clicking which the user will auto-login to QuickBooks Online. Let us know how this can be done.

Answer 1

It can't.

QuickBooks Online does not offer a way to automatically log in to it.

The closest you get is OpenID (which allows single-sign-on across QuickBooks Online and your app), which is documented here:

• https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0053_auth_auth/javascript_functions

And the "Connect to QuickBooks" button, which makes you click a button ONCE to get connected to QuickBooks Online, after which you can exchange data with QuickBooks Online without having to have the user log in from that point forward.

If you follow the quick-start it shows you how to do this:

• https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php

• http://www.consolibyte.com/docs/index.php/PHP_DevKit_for_QuickBooks_-_Intuit_Partner_Platform_Quick-Start

• https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php/tree/master/docs/partner_platform/example_app_ipp_v3