Accounting & ERP
QuickBooks Desktop is an desktop accounting and financial management software for construction companies. Using Agave, you can integrate with QuickBooks Desktop and 29 other systems in hours using a single API.
Agave has sandbox environments with sample data that you can use instead of spending time creating your own.
Agave provides unified models and access to source data. In addition, we even support pass-through requests, so you are never blocked by us.
curl https://api.agaveapi.com/vendors \
# 3 headers that are consisttent
-H 'Api-Version: 2021-11-21' \
-H 'Client-Id: your-client-id' \
-H 'Client-Secret: your-client-secret' \
# Change the account token to request data from different accounts and different systems
-H 'Account-Token: quickbooks-desktop-example-account-token'
Consistent schema across all systems
{
"id": "ee9b53e7-f982-4be6-bc12-75f716d3ee94",
"source_id": "12345",
"address": {},
"alternate_name": "AnyCompany",
"email": "contact@agaveapi.com",
"fax": "(123) 555-0100",
"name": "AnyCompany Inc.",
"phone": "(123) 555-0100",
"status": "Active",
"tax_number": "987654321",
"website": "https://www.agaveapi.com/",
"source_create_time": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"source_update_time": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
Get raw output from QuickBooks Desktop
{
"ListID": "610000-1026258379",
"TimeCreated": "2002-07-09T16:46:19-08:00",
"TimeModified": "2025-12-15T02:01:20-08:00",
"EditSequence": "1765792880",
"Name": "AAA Tech Consultants",
"IsActive": "true",
"CompanyName": "AAA Tech Consultants",
"FirstName": "Mike",
"LastName": "Balak",
"VendorAddress": {...},
"VendorAddressBlock": {...},
...
}
Option to call QuickBooks Desktop APIs directly
curl --request POST https://api.agaveapi.com/passthrough \
--header 'API-Version: 2021-11-21' \
--header 'Client-Id: your-client-id' \
--header 'Client-Secret: your-client-secret' \
--header 'Account-Token: quickbooks-desktop-account-token' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/rest/v1.0/vendors,
"data": {}
}'