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Postman is a quickstart for QuickBooks Online API endpoints

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Product Research & Development
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Intuit, a company that serves 43 million small-businesses, self-employed, and consumers across North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil, was looking for a way to make it easier for developers to get started with their QuickBooks Online APIs. The company's core stack is Java running 63 QuickBooks API endpoints used extensively by developers across the world. However, the complexity of the OAuth specification and the variations it comes with made it challenging for developers to easily deal with authentication protocols. Additionally, Intuit frequently helps developers explore and implement their API endpoints at hackathons and other workshops, and needed a way to generate code snippets in different languages or frameworks. Read More
About Customer	Intuit is a company that is revolutionizing the way people manage small business, personal finance, and tax software. The company empowers more than 43 million customers around the world with products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint. From Intuit’s roots with DOS software to help balance the family checkbook in 1983, they have since evolved to the web, and to the cloud and mobile. Today, Intuit serves 43 million small-businesses, self-employed, and consumers across North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil. Their core stack is Java running 63 QuickBooks API endpoints used extensively by developers across the world. Read More
Solution	Intuit decided to use Postman, a platform that offers an easy way to share a Postman collection for the QuickBooks Online APIs. The requests in the collection are initially configured to access the sandbox development environment for an immediate working prototype. Developers can then update the environment with their own authentication credentials and save them in a Postman environment template to switch over to accessing their own development environment. Postman also has a set of helpers to deal with authentication protocols easily. For example, once developers generate an OAuth 2.0 access token and refresh token using Postman, they can then call the QuickBooks Online APIs and access their sandbox account using their generated token. Furthermore, Postman's code generation feature is used heavily at hackathons and other workshops. Developers can experiment with the QuickBooks Online API, configure their requests, and once the request has been finalized and saved, Postman allows developers to generate snippets of code in their preferred language or framework to use in their own applications. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Product Research & Development

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Intuit, a company that serves 43 million small-businesses, self-employed, and consumers across North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil, was looking for a way to make it easier for developers to get started with their QuickBooks Online APIs. The company's core stack is Java running 63 QuickBooks API endpoints used extensively by developers across the world. However, the complexity of the OAuth specification and the variations it comes with made it challenging for developers to easily deal with authentication protocols. Additionally, Intuit frequently helps developers explore and implement their API endpoints at hackathons and other workshops, and needed a way to generate code snippets in different languages or frameworks.

About Customer

Intuit is a company that is revolutionizing the way people manage small business, personal finance, and tax software. The company empowers more than 43 million customers around the world with products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint. From Intuit’s roots with DOS software to help balance the family checkbook in 1983, they have since evolved to the web, and to the cloud and mobile. Today, Intuit serves 43 million small-businesses, self-employed, and consumers across North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil. Their core stack is Java running 63 QuickBooks API endpoints used extensively by developers across the world.

Solution

Intuit decided to use Postman, a platform that offers an easy way to share a Postman collection for the QuickBooks Online APIs. The requests in the collection are initially configured to access the sandbox development environment for an immediate working prototype. Developers can then update the environment with their own authentication credentials and save them in a Postman environment template to switch over to accessing their own development environment. Postman also has a set of helpers to deal with authentication protocols easily. For example, once developers generate an OAuth 2.0 access token and refresh token using Postman, they can then call the QuickBooks Online APIs and access their sandbox account using their generated token. Furthermore, Postman's code generation feature is used heavily at hackathons and other workshops. Developers can experiment with the QuickBooks Online API, configure their requests, and once the request has been finalized and saved, Postman allows developers to generate snippets of code in their preferred language or framework to use in their own applications.

Impact #1	The Run in Postman button has made it easier for developers to get started with the QuickBooks Online APIs.
Impact #2	The use of Postman has reduced the number of support tickets submitted by developers getting started with the Intuit API endpoints.
Impact #3	Postman's code generation feature has been heavily used at hackathons and other workshops, helping developers explore and implement Intuit's API endpoints.

Impact #1

The Run in Postman button has made it easier for developers to get started with the QuickBooks Online APIs.

Impact #2

The use of Postman has reduced the number of support tickets submitted by developers getting started with the Intuit API endpoints.

Impact #3

Postman's code generation feature has been heavily used at hackathons and other workshops, helping developers explore and implement Intuit's API endpoints.

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Postman is a quickstart for QuickBooks Online API endpoints

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