Magento Commerce has been out a year now, and as the product has matured, and more companies have adopted it -from mom and pop shops to international, multi-channel retailers – the demands of many users still grow.  With the introduction of its enterprise platform, Magento has looked to fulfill some of the demands of those companies requiring such features as user level permissions, auditing (logging) of administrator actions, content staging, among other features.  While the featureset of both the newly branded “Community” edition, and Enterprise editions is expected to continue its growth with the support of Verian, there are a few significant holes that many online retailers leveraging the platform have significant difficulty with.  And in defense of Magento, this hole exists with most eCommerce platforms: its integration with merchants’ accounting / ERP systems.  This is typically something reserved for third parties to develop.

Strides have been made, and recent developments indicate that solutions have arrived, finally.  Smile has developed an OpenERP module, and a few others have popped up here and there for various other ERP platforms, but the most widely adopted accounting package for small businesses (at least in the US) – QuickBooks – still lacks a clear leading solution for integrating with Magento.   But let’s cover the options that are available for merchants to integrate with QuickBooks