QuickBooks provides many rich features to its users. One such feature is that it facilitates the exchange of data between different programs. For this purpose, QuickBooks makes use of QuickBooks ODBC. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application that has been developed to enable communication between different programs so that they can easily exchange information with each other. Now, you may know the advantages of using QuickBooks Open Database Connectivity. We have listed some of them below: Advantages of using QuickBooks ODBC Driver As a QuickBooks user, you can, by using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), do a number of things. For example, you are able to create spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, you can make tables in Microsoft Access, and you can create reports reflecting your real-time QB data in Crystal Reports. With QuickBooks ODBC, you can design your own reports. You can even combine data from different QB company files to create reports. Apart from designing reports, ODBC QuickBooks enables a QB user to personalize invoices, merge emails, etc. Moreover, as a user of QuickBooks software, you can make use of Structured Query Language (SQL) for writing your own queries.
Open the ODBC Information Source Chairman. Select the Client DSN or Framework DSN tab. Click Add. · Select Devart ODBC Driver for QuickBooks and click Finish.