Could not start QuickBooks (from Service)

Question

I have created a DLL that calls into QBFC13. It works just fine in the development environments I'm working with. (VS10 and a lite version embedded in an application.) However, when my DLL is called from a Service running on that machine, I'm getting a (0x80040408): Could not start QuickBooks when my DLL then attempts to open QB via the API.

I using an application name that has full access in QB in the OpenConnection line, and the path to the file is correct. C:\Users\Public\Documents\Intuit\QuickBooks\Company Files

Looking in the forums, I don't see anything that corresponds to this scenario, so I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight.

Are you running the service as a user that has access to the quickbooks application? That would be the first thing I would check. — competent_tech, Jul 01 '14 at 18:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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QuickBooks integrations do not work when running as a Windows service.

This is a well known, long standing, and unlikely to be fixed by Intuit issue.

Could not start QuickBooks (from Service)

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