Django and Intuit Quickbooks api Quickstart
05 March 2020
I recently had a client that wanted a primer on the quickbooks api for oauth.
Below find a short video tutorial of how to copy, configure and run a django
api that uses login with quickbooks. I also go over the oauth flow between
intuits servers and the django api endpoints.
Overview
- Make an intuit app
- Clone https://github.com/IntuitDeveloper/SampleOAuth2_UsingPythonClient
- Copy the client id and secret into settings.py
- Copy the django callback endpoint into the intuit app
- run the Django
- click the sign in with quickbooks button
- authorize your app
- Done. Now you can perform priviledged calls from the django app against the quickbooks api
Some pitfalls
- The oauth redirect uri needs to point to your django app. The uri quickbooks provides is useful as well and we play with it in the video.
- The django example uses app namespaces on the urls. If you want to reverse a url by name, e.g.,
{% url <some url name> %}that needs to be written as{% url 'app:qbo_request' %}.
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