QuickBooks

Overview

The QuickBooks connector reads changes from QuickBooks Online through the change data capture endpoint. Each new or edited entity becomes a typed event with its full record, and each poll appears in the trace with the timestamp it started from.

Small finance teams use it to email a receipt through Gmail when a payment arrives, to create invoices from closed deals in Stripe or HubSpot and to post a weekly list of unpaid bills to Slack.

Supported objects

• Invoices, bills, payments, bill payments and customers

• Vendors, items and accounts through the query action

• QuickBooks Online Simple Start, Essentials, Plus and Advanced

How polling works

Every 60 seconds Tessel asks the CDC endpoint for entities changed since its last cursor. Deleted entities come back with a deleted status, so workflows can react to removals too. Records edited twice between polls arrive once, in their latest state.

GET /v3/company/9130356012345/cdc
  ?entities=Invoice,Bill,Payment,Customer
  &changedSince=2026-10-06T09:14:00Z
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
Accept: application/json

GET /v3/company/9130356012345/cdc
  ?entities=Invoice,Bill,Payment,Customer
  &changedSince=2026-10-06T09:14:00Z
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
Accept: application/json

GET /v3/company/9130356012345/cdc
  ?entities=Invoice,Bill,Payment,Customer
  &changedSince=2026-10-06T09:14:00Z
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
Accept: application/json

Catching up

The CDC endpoint returns up to 30 days of changes. If a connection is paused for longer, Tessel switches to queries on MetaData.LastUpdatedTime and pages through until it is current.

Permissions needed

Tessel connects with OAuth 2.0 through Intuit. It needs the accounting scope, which covers reads and writes. Ask a company admin to connect, since standard users may not see every entity.

• com.intuit.quickbooks.accounting for all reads and writes

• openid and email to show who connected in the audit log

• Company admin, or a standard user with all access