Open Accounting Aggregators

Open Accounting is a framework that enables secure, standardized access to accounting data across different software platforms through APIs. Similar to Open Banking, it allows businesses to share and synchronize financial data between accounting systems, ERP platforms, and business applications, enabling automated bookkeeping, real-time reporting, and seamless integrations.

Through unified accounting APIs like Apideck, you can integrate with 20+ platforms including QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Sage, NetSuite, FreshBooks, Wave, Zoho Books, MYOB, and many more. A single API integration gives you access to all supported platforms without building individual connectors.

Open Accounting APIs typically provide access to: invoices and bills, customers and suppliers, payments and transactions, chart of accounts and ledger entries, tax rates and calculations, journal entries, financial reports (P&L, balance sheet), bank accounts, and items/products. The exact data available depends on the source platform's capabilities.

A unified accounting API acts as a middleware layer that normalizes data from multiple accounting platforms into a single, consistent format. You integrate once with the unified API, and it handles the complexity of connecting to each individual platform, mapping fields, handling authentication (OAuth), and managing data synchronization.

Yes, reputable Open Accounting providers use enterprise-grade security including OAuth 2.0 for authentication, TLS encryption for data in transit, encrypted storage for data at rest, and SOC 2 compliance. Users maintain control over which applications can access their accounting data and can revoke access at any time.