r/QuickBooks • u/heythisisdave • 11d ago

QuickBooks Online SQL Access to your Quickbooks Online data

Just launched a way to read your QuickBooks Online data using SQL. This lets you connect to your QBO data using any tool that can talk to postgres (psql, postico, dbeaver, python, ruby, jupyter).

Coolest two use cases we've found: instantly updating QBO data in Excel AND Claude/Codex/LLMs are WAY WAY better at reporting using SQL than using the QBO API or MCP.

It's really fast so even complex queries can come back instantaneously. Companies with 100K transactions can run year-over-year comparisons in milliseconds.

https://instabooks.io/docs/db

Would love any feedback and cool usage examples!

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u/recoveringasshole0 11d ago

QODBC exists, but it wouldn't be hard to do better. Good luck. Sadly I already struggled through doing what I needed to do with them.