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Switch your QuickBooks Online Account to work with Categories

To enable the sync of items from Flourish to QuickBooks Online, please ensure your QuickBooks Online account is configured to work with "Categories" and not "Sub-items."

To enable the sync of items from Flourish to QuickBooks Online, please ensure your QuickBooks Online account is configured to work with "Categories" and not "Sub-items."

QuickBooks Online recommends switching to "Categories" to simplify organizing your products and services.

To do that:

  1. Login to your QBO Account. 
  2. Go to https://qbo.intuit.com/app/categorymigration.
    You should see the page in this picture:
  3. Click The image shows a green "Switch now" button, which appears on the QuickBooks Online category migration page (qbo.intuit.com/app/categorymigration) and is the control users must….
The QuickBooks Online category migration page at qbo.intuit.com/app/categorymigration, prompting users to switch from sub-items to Categories with the headline "Sub-items are so…

Learn more on Categories at the QuickBooks Online help center. 

If you don't switch to "Categories," you will get this error message when trying to sync an item to QuickBooks Online: "...Code: 500 | Message: Unsupported Operation | Detail: Operation CREATE CATEGORY is not supported"
The image shows a red error message dialog that appears in Flourish when attempting to sync an item to QuickBooks Online without having switched to "Categories" mode.

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Setting Inventory Start Date

Configuring Items for QuickBooks Online Sync

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