Checklist

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Processes

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Sign up to become our Developer Partner

Sign up from here

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Get your ClientID, ClientSecret, Subscription keys and your product licenses (Reckon Accounts Desktop & Hosted) information

You'll receive this information via an email from Support team once you've signed up and your application is approved

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Read Authorisation documentation

We follow OAuth2 for our Authorisation and your default flow type is Authorization Flow. Click here to learn more

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Learn how to prepare your file before you start testing

When you send any payload, you need to know the product version number and make your data file ready for API calls. Read this documentation

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Download Postman collection and play around to find out how the API calls and results look like

Click here to access our Reckon Accounts Hosted Postman Collection

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Learn Reckon Accounts Desktop SDK

• Reckon Accounts Hosted API is essentially the Reckon Accounts desktop SDK wrapped in a RESTful API, hence you'll need to learn desktop SDK (QBXML). Click here to read the payloads and responses from Intuit. Change the version to 6.0 and Format to qbXML. 
  Note: Intuit is the owner of QuickBooks SDK that Reckon Accounts (both Reckon Accounts Desktop and Hosted) are built on
• After you signed up, we provided you with more SDK documentations via a link in the application form response, which includes test client, SDK Programmers Guides and many more very useful resources to help you learn and implement your integration faster

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Develop and finalise your integrated solution

Using the resources you have, develop your integration. Let the Support team know if you have any questions along the way by filling out a support ticket and selecting 'Reckon API' (do not directly email us).

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Handling queries that take long time

If a query takes more than 2.5 minutes to complete, you'll get RequestID in response. Send that requestID next time instead of sending the payload again to check the status of the request. Click here to try it out and understand the payload structure.

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Common errors

Click here to learn what are the common errors that you might encounter and how to solve them.

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List your app to our Marketplace

Once you're happy with your integration, let us know and show us a demo, we'll then add it to our marketplace upon approval