Training Day

Pulling Employees from QBO

Learn how to poll QBO for employee changes using timestamps.

In this exercise, we'll implement a polling mechanism that retrieves all employee records that have been modified since a specific timestamp. This approach ensures comprehensive data capture regardless of how old the changes are.

Key Concepts

  • Using modification timestamps to filter API results
  • Processing batches of records efficiently
  • Tracking synchronization state for incremental updates

Implementation Approach

  • We'll use the QBO Query API to filter employees by their MetaData.LastUpdatedTime
  • The timestamp from the last successful sync will be stored and used for subsequent polls
  • Results will be processed as they arrive to ensure efficient memory usage

Detailed step-by-step instructions are available in the SimpleLedger FileMaker file.

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