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How are you recommending deployment of MajorApi for applications needing to read from Quickbooks? I've written a Quickbooks integration web service using the desktop SDK, not web connector, and ultimately we had to abandon any reads from Quickbooks in favor of essentially mirroring the data in a SQL database. Can the combination of MajorApi and web connector handle real-time QB reads under moderate load?

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Right now when you create a new MajorApi QuickBooks Application, it reads in your items and sales reps so they can be references in invoices you create.

Then we have a database in the middle of the two because you can't have real time reads from QuickBooks with the WebConnector.

Edit: So to answer your question, there's no such thing as real time reads using the WebConnector. You have to send an XML query to QuickBooks which returns the data. We plan on integrating with QuickBooks online soon which will allow real time reads.

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