Workflow playground

Watch a workflow get through QuickBooks' bad days

Choose your own adventure with two made-up apps that sync with QuickBooks Desktop through QuBe Sync. Pick what goes wrong and step through it. When a run stops to ask a question, you answer it as someone at the office would, and the story follows your answer. QuickBooks Desktop runs on an office PC, where Intuit's Web Connector checks in with QuBe Sync to pick up work. Every step was recorded from QuBe Sync's real workflow engine against our QuickBooks simulator: the JSON, the qbXML, QuickBooks' answers and the webhooks are what it really sends.

Wrenchly schedules plumbers and invoices finished jobs. Its customer, Fernhill Plumbing, keeps the books in QuickBooks Desktop on an office PC, so every invoice Wrenchly sends goes through QuBe Sync.

Invoice a finished job What goes wrong: QuickBooks' answer gets lost

The answer never comes back

The connection to Fernhill's office PC drops before QuickBooks' answer to invoice 1044 reaches QuBe Sync. Did QuickBooks add it? Nobody knows, and sending it again blind could bill the bakery twice.

In Wrenchly: Invoice for job 1044

  • Maple Street Bakery
  • Drain Cleaning × 2 @ 145.00
  • Total 290.00
Not sent yet
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These are real, shipped workflows

The invoice, payment and new-account workflows here are templates every QuBe Sync app can install. Try them against a simulated company of your own, with the same faults, from a free sandbox.