Looking for a Shopping Cart which integrates with Quickbooks 2006

I use Quickbooks 2006 for all of my accounting and currently have a EBay business but am putting up my own web site.
I have looked at various shopping cart programs such as VirtueMart, ZenCart, oscommerce, and CubeCart. I don't mind using one that is a pay one unless it's very expensive (such as Miva) but it seems many that are popular are actually free. It just seems that none of them work with Quickbooks and I prefer one that does. Of course I want a good all around e-commerce solution. I am using Joomla so that is why I looked heavily at Virtuemart but would consider others as well.

You might check out Modular Merchant as well.

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There is a Quick Books contribution for osCommerce (which would also make it work if you had the osCommerce plugin on a Joomla or with the Virtuemart). The open source carts are great. You dont pay for the contribution, but you will need to program the PHP install or have a programer do it. It would be about a 1 to 2 hr custom project to include time for the install and any testing needed.

Check out Volusion.

If your Ebay business starts really picking up and you need software to help you keep track of orders check out Intermedia's Shipworks. I heard good things from ebay users about it, and it can hook up to most of the popular shopping carts that were mentioned in this thread.

I 2nd Isharli - We have been with Volusion for 5 months now and are very happy with it. They have a trial version you can try out for (I think) 2 weeks.

I can understand your confusion and bewilderment. This is the normal reaction when folks first take on the challanges of e-commerce and shopping cart selection.

I have just started a free e-commerce newsletter that addresses some of these concerns. In the newsletter, among other things, you'll find information about a new shopping cart that is currently undergoing beta testing. They are allowing testers to use the software free of charge during the extensive testing phase. What is really cool is the fact that they will allow you to actually use the system for live online sales.

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Check out Aspdotnetstorefront as they offer a QuickBooks import utility (developed by Atandra Systems) for their shopping cart.

If you use authorize.net as your payment processing gateway you can export all of your data to Quickbooks easily. Doesn't matter what shopping cart solution you use as long as it's certified by Authorize.net. I have developed a shopping cart software program that is authorize.net certified. If you'd like a free hosted 30 day trial just let me know.

In case you get one of the free modules, first i think you should do survey and check how many people used it.

Both osCommerce and Zen Cart have a basic third-party contribution or module (by the same developer, search for "QuickBooks QBI") that will enable you to download data into QuickBooks; there's also "bridge" software available from one software vendor that will transfer data to AND from QuickBooks and osC -- great for online inventory updates.

Scott

I've spent a lot of time researching this since the first of the year. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the only 4 carts I've found that are actually tightly integrated with Quickbooks. I'm referring to carts that actually use the QBXML feed through their API, instead of spreadsheet imports.

http://www.iamodules.com - 2-way synchronization with QB including items, customers, orders, etc. Customers can even view their QB order history online! This is the most powerful cart I've found that integrates super-tightly with Quickbooks and is still affordable.

http://www.trinityrealtime.com/ - TRULY real-time 2-way with Quickbooks. You change a price in QB, it is changed immediately on the Web. When someone places a web order online, it does not go through a sync, it is already in Quickbooks.

http://www.goecart.com - A quite expensive hosted cart, but uses the QB API for very tight integration.

http://www.actinic.com - Only sends orders to Quickbooks, doesn't read data from Quickbooks. But uses their API and the sales person there will tell you horror stories of other carts that only use simple import/export.

Stay away from IIF imports - Quickbooks no longer officially supports the IIF format.

Chris_WI,
Wow very interesting as I did not know about any of these solutions!

There's a whole set of QuickBooks addons by MagneticOne. They are available for Store Managers for the following shopping carts:
QuickBooks addon for osCommerce
QuickBooks addon for CRE Loaded
QuickBooks addon for X-Cart
QuickBooks addon for Zen Cart
QuickBooks addon for Pinnacle Cart
QuickBooks addon for Magento

Hope this is helpful