--- title: "QuickBooks Desktop API ยท Hypamoon" description: "The QuickBooks Desktop API is open. What your AI chat can build with it on Hypamoon, how it connects, and the sources we checked." url: https://hypamoon.com/connect-to/quickbooks-desktop --- 1. [Connect to](https://hypamoon.com/connect-to) 2. QuickBooks Desktop ERP and accounting # Connect QuickBooks Desktop to Hypamoon Yes, with one catch. QuickBooks Desktop has an open API that you can use yourself, but it signs in with OAuth only, and that takes more work in a Hypamoon adapter today. Open ## The check Three questions about the API of QuickBooks Desktop, answered from its own docs. **Public API docs**\ **Yes.** Intuit documents the QuickBooks Desktop SDK and the qbXML message format for independent developers. [Read the docs](https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started) **A key you create yourself**\ **Yes.** No key from Intuit; the QuickBooks admin authorises your application on the company file. [developer.intuit.com](https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started) **Versions or a changelog**\ **Yes.** Versioned SDK and qbXML specification, now also 64-bit. [developer.intuit.com](https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started) **How it signs in**\ No hosted API. Your app talks qbXML to QuickBooks on the same machine or network, or through the QuickBooks Web Connector polling your web service. **Webhooks**\ **Not confirmed.** **Hosting**\ Self-hosted **Condition**\ Runs through the QuickBooks Web Connector or a small service next to QuickBooks Desktop. ## In practice What it takes in a real QuickBooks Desktop administration. **Getting access**\ Install the QuickBooks Web Connector next to QuickBooks Desktop and let the admin authorise your app. **Limits**\ None published. **Writing**\ **Read and write.** qbXML supports adding and modifying customers, invoices, sales receipts and more. **Cost**\ Not published. ## What you can build Push sales receipts and invoices from your own tools into QuickBooks Desktop through the Web Connector and read open balances back. Your chat writes it as a Hypamoon adapter from the docs above. Reading starts after you click Allow in the portal, and every write waits for your approval, one call at a time. [How adapters work](https://hypamoon.com/docs/adapters) ### Good to know - QuickBooks Desktop runs on a Windows machine; the Web Connector on that machine calls out to your adapter on a schedule. - For QuickBooks Online see the separate entry; Desktop needs a local component. ## Try it in your chat Fill in what to read and write, and send it. Say this in your chat > Build the Hypamoon recipe build-an-adapter for QuickBooks Desktop. API docs: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started. Read: \[what\]. Write: \[what, or nothing\]. [Open in Claude](https://claude.ai/new?q=Build%20the%20Hypamoon%20recipe%20build-an-adapter%20for%20QuickBooks%20Desktop.%20API%20docs%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.intuit.com%2Fapp%2Fdeveloper%2Fqbdesktop%2Fdocs%2Fget-started.%20Read%3A%20%5Bwhat%5D.%20Write%3A%20%5Bwhat%2C%20or%20nothing%5D.) In Claude, or another chat with the full Hypamoon connection; adapters are not in ChatGPT yet. You paste the key in the portal, never in the chat. [The full recipe](https://hypamoon.com/r/build-an-adapter) ## Sources Checked on 7 November 2026. - [developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started](https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbdesktop/docs/get-started) QuickBooks Desktop is a name of its owner, used here only to describe the software. This page is not an official integration and Hypamoon has no partnership with QuickBooks Desktop. Found something that changed? 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Ask the chat to check its API. The same three checks work for any software. Your chat reads the vendor's own docs and tells you what it found. Say this in your chat > Check if \[software\] has an open API that a Hypamoon adapter can use: public API docs, a key or token I can create myself without asking the vendor, and versions or a changelog. Link the pages you used. [Open in Claude](https://claude.ai/new?q=Check%20if%20%5Bsoftware%5D%20has%20an%20open%20API%20that%20a%20Hypamoon%20adapter%20can%20use%3A%20public%20API%20docs%2C%20a%20key%20or%20token%20I%20can%20create%20myself%20without%20asking%20the%20vendor%2C%20and%20versions%20or%20a%20changelog.%20Link%20the%20pages%20you%20used.) [Open in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/?q=Check%20if%20%5Bsoftware%5D%20has%20an%20open%20API%20that%20a%20Hypamoon%20adapter%20can%20use%3A%20public%20API%20docs%2C%20a%20key%20or%20token%20I%20can%20create%20myself%20without%20asking%20the%20vendor%2C%20and%20versions%20or%20a%20changelog.%20Link%20the%20pages%20you%20used.) Fill in the name of your software. Checking needs no connection to Hypamoon. ## Ready to connect QuickBooks Desktop? Connect your chat once, then ask it to build the adapter. [Start free](https://app.hypamoon.com/?mode=signup&utm_source=connect-to&utm_campaign=quickbooks-desktop) Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. [Add to Claude](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=connect-to~quickbooks-desktop#claude) [Add to ChatGPT](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=connect-to~quickbooks-desktop#chatgpt) [Add to Copilot](https://hypamoon.com/docs/microsoft-copilot)