Using QuickBooks POS Data with Access 2013 (Linked Tables) 32-bit

Using QuickBooks POS Data with Access 2013 (Linked Tables) 32-bit

For 64 Bit, Please refer : How to Configure QODBC to Work With 64-bit MS Access

Creating a Table in Microsoft Access:

Note: Microsoft Access is a product with many uses, and will allow you to use your QuickBooks POS Data files in the same fashion as Access databases.

Open MS Access 2013, you can find it via Windows Start->All Programs->Microsoft Office 2013:

A default database filename Database1 appears in the box. You can edit this to a more relevant name, such as QB Link.accdb. Save the file as type "Microsoft Office Access Databases".

Then Click "Create" to create a blank database:

After  the new database is created, Navigate to "External Data":

Build a connection via External Data->More->ODBC Database, or directly click ODBC database button at External Data menu:

Under Get External Data window, you will get two options:

Import the source data into a new table in the current database: this option will directly extract tables into Access DataBase, you can view and edit these tables but all modification will not be uploaded unless you build another query to do so.

Link to the data source by creating a linked table: this option will create a table just like the first option, but will keep its link to QuickBooks, which means all your operation to this table will be uploaded to QuickBooks, and the data in table is also in full sync with QuickBooks.

In this article, we will show you how to build linked table in MS Access.

Build a Linked Table in MS Access

After you select access method and click OK, then you will get a Select Data Source window:

Select the QuickBooks related DSN you setup with the QODBC driver. This can be one of our pre-installed DSN names or one that you have created. (Here I choose the default DSN as example.)

The first time you use MS Access to access QuickBooks, it will ask you to grant permssion for this application:

Select "Yes, Always" option, and then click "Done" in the next window:

Once the connection is built, Access will return a list of available tables in Select Tables window. Please select tables you want to extract data from. Mutiple Selection is available.

If the Import/Linking works without any problems, you will see linked tables been created in the table list of MS Access:

If you want to view QuickBooks records in this linked table, just double click the linked server, then you will see the records:

FYI, linked table is always in sync with QuickBooks POS Data, so you cannot add or delete any columns in this table. But you can directly modify the data in linked table, QODBC will automatically update the modification to QuickBooks.

Note: In the case where you run across an application which is not fully ODBC compatible, often times they do support getting data from Access tables. To make this application work with QuickBooks tables, you can run the Microsoft Access setup as shown above. Then have this application use the MS Access ODBC driver to talk to the Access database, which you created, which was linked to QuickBooks tables. This middleware approach allows us to support nearly any application, even if not fully ODBC compliant.

Also Refer :
How to Use QODBC with Microsoft Access 2007
Using QuickBooks Data with Access 2010 (Import Tables) 32-bit
Using QuickBooks Data with Access 2010(Linked Tables) 32-bit
How to Configure QODBC to Work With 64-bit MS Access
Microsoft Access 2003 and QODBC