Your QuickBooks® company data is key to your business and contains information that must be safeguarded. Intuit (the maker of QuickBooks®) protects your information in several ways. One way is to limit how non-Intuit products can access your company data file. A QuickBooks Compatible Software application is one that is developed according to the standards set by Intuit, and that uses the programming interface (the “SDK”) that they provide. This ensures that the application has the appropriate permission to access your data. When a QuickBooks Compatible Software application first tries to access your company data the QuickBooks program will ask you if this is allowed, and under what circumstances.