Method:API Q&A

Re: Enhanced Inventory Receiving

furrywombat — Fri, 30 May 2014 21:30:11 GMT

Chris,

Thanks for the quick and very helpful response. I did have a previous understanding of how inventory is handled with QB / Method. Sounds like this should be no problemo. I'll play around with it and report back with results as they become available.

Appreciated.

F.W.

Re: Enhanced Inventory Receiving

Method_Chris — Fri, 30 May 2014 18:47:28 GMT

Hi.

Basically:

1) Method does not deduct from QuickBooks inventory. The Method sync
engine sends Invoices, Bills, Item Receipts, etc., to QuickBooks using the
QuickBooks SDK. The QuickBooks SDK runs within the QuickBooks environment
and in turn looks at the QuickBooks file and performs business logic that
should simulate exactly how your environment is setup.
2) Method does sync with QuickBooks Enterprise, using the QuickBooks SDK,
and files with Enhanced Inventory enabled. It does not take advantage of
all the features of the QuickBooks SDK regarding enhanced inventory, but I
don’t see that being a problem here.
3) With that said, the Method API really is a developer’s face to Method.
So it should simulate whatever you are able to do in the regular
interface. So your questions is really less of an API question, and more
of a general Method question, as such should really belong in the general
Method forum if we need to go deeper with someone in Method Support.
Before you spend time doing any coding in the API, I suggest you hook up
your scenario using just regular Item Receipts and Bills in Method and
make sure you are getting the desired result. I suspect that you will.

Thanks!

Chris

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Enhanced Inventory Receiving

furrywombat — Fri, 30 May 2014 12:53:27 GMT

See below:

http://www.sleeter.com/blog/2011/09/quickbooks-2012-enhanced-inventory-receiving/

We are considering migrating to enhanced inventory receiving in an attempt to help weed out unnecessary conflicts with item receipts, as they are converted to bills (we have figured out a complex way to do this using the Method API, but it produces a conflict initially, which is wiped out shortly thereafter).

The idea is that when enhanced inventory receiving is activated, bills no longer affect inventory, and item receipts must be produced even for non-inventory items. When enhanced inventory receiving is activated, item receipts become non-posting transactions as far as the A/P account is concerned. When an item receipt is "converted" to a bill, the item receipt is no longer deleted from the database but remains, and is closed out, similarly to the sales order / invoice relationship.

Based on how our business works, I believe that enhanced inventory receiving is the BEST solution for us. But I wanted to confirm that this is something that will integrate with Method before we convert our company file to the new format.

Also, assuming that Method CAN support enhanced inventory receiving, with API customization / interaction, who over there has a clue as to what DB fields I should look out for when creating the bill? Do we no longer have to delete / zero-out the item receipt when it is being converted to a bill? What would be the recommended approach for this?

Thanks in advance.