Mike,

Quote Originally Posted by mike177 View Post
Thanks djstern,
... I can ask a zen guru to download the latest SDK from QuickBooks Merchant Services (v 6.0) and go at it to make the two speak.... or (as I was hoping) I can find some person or product who has done this particular integration before and the whole zen-to-QB_Merchant_Service implementation would be a whole lot easier (and cheaper).
QBI is currently the result of about 1,000 hours of work. It is not likely that you could pay someone to make something just for you at any affordable price and with the feature set that QBI has.

Currently the best way to integrate QBI is to use a payment gateway like authorize.net that handles the card payment directly in Zen Cart. If you wish to process credit cards manually and not in real-time, you should be able to set it up to do an authorization only and then capture it later. For most people, charging in real-time is the best way, unless you have products that you can not ship immediately.

If you want to charge cards from within QB, QBI can not currently do that because the iif file import format does not support credit card numbers. QBI 4.x will support qbXML and will make this possible. However, if you do it this way, you are going to have to call your customers each time their card gets declined. With a real-time online system, the customer knows immediately and can make corrections or use another card.

Feel free to post here or contact me if you have further questions, or contact me directly if you need help implementing QBI.

As far as a comparison with T-HUB, I believe from looking at their website that QBI has many more features. But some time in the future I will install their trial version so that I can make a feature comparison chart.

Thanks,
Adam