When will Paypal fully integrate with QuickBooks?

[mainbrain]

There must be lots of individual sellers like myself who sell full time on ebay and use QuickBooks for accounting. I have used QB for years and have inquired at Paypal when we will be able to integrate Paypal and QB. You can integrate now, but only in a very primitive and time-consuming way.

When you download your Paypal transactions to QB, you only have ONE choice for an income category and ONE choice for an expense category! I'm not sure what the technical challenge is for Paypal, or if it has just been a very low priority, but the current functionality is pretty close to zero. One still has to go to QB and change all the expense categories one-by-one.

There is supposed to be a third party way to do this, but I have never had the confidence to try it. Seems like Paypal could offer this service easily enough.

[jaredfleury]

Hi Amanda,

I have followed the link and I do find references to be able to download into quickbooks, but nothing that says how to do it.  Also, though I have seen many references to the iif file, that option is not available to me in the history download.  I found one person said you could do it with comma delimited, but that is not available as in import option in QB. Any ideas?

Jared

[cupnw]

History -> Download history -> Last download to Present -> File types to download -> Quickbooks .iif

I have a business account. Maybe this capability is only available if you have a business account.

Regards, Naren

[cupnw]

I think I have found a new problem with the Quickbooks interface. I had a number of customer returns which I processed recently. However, it does not appear that they have been downloaded to the QB .iif file. Has anyone else encountered this problem? My revenue is currently overstated since the credits are not recorded.

[goccogrrl]

HI, This is the same issue we all have.

Transactions that involved refunds, rebates, returns do not post correctly, if they post at all.

The current iif downloads don't handle these transactions. It's a major problem, has been going on for years, and is not something Paypal cares to address.

I can't seem to tweak the Paypal shipping charge options to accurately reflect the varying weights/costs of my items, so I refund the difference on overpaid shipping, or on combined shipping.

Paypal will recommend you pay a thirdparty translator. We use SmartPort. Although it's a bit of a tech pain to set up, they are wonderfully helpful with this part and walk you through it with great courtesy, via 800-phone or online.

[edcorusa]

I agee, It would be nice to have the account linked in Quickbooks. We use Paypal all the time.

[mjholt]

The time for full integration is NOW.

[crazysmom]

I totally agree.

I have been asking for this for over 5 years.  I noticed now the link to download iif files is getting harder and harder to find.  It doesn't come up when you click "download history" from the main screen.

We use our paypal debit cards all the time, and it's a pain, because I have to edit the iif file before importing.

A direct connect or web connect is needed now!!!!

[richope]

I am glad I found this information before fully committing to Paypal for gateway services. Without any Quickbooks integration I will move on to something that does work.  Suggestions?

PayPal; get with the program, EVERYONE talks to QuickBooks.

[Elsie119]

This seems to be a common complaint, of course I was not aware of this when I committed to paypal (website developer, and API strong recommendation)

The most important thing I do is keep the back room in order (financial information and taxes).  I do this with QuickBooks 2010.  I am new to PayPal and am dissapointed that their wizzard, even in its basic form, does not work with QB2010.  I would love to see and try to e-mail invoiceing, but I cant even do that. 

PayPal please address these concerns. It is a tough choice between the PayPal ezpay and intergration with QB. 

[debramijal]

Agreeeeeddd!!! I am tempted not to use paypal AT ALL due to the lack of download capability!!!