QuickBooks SuiteCRM Integration

We purchased this plugin expecting a modern, well-maintained QuickBooks integration for SuiteCRM. Instead, we encountered the following severe issues:

1. Broken Packaging • The provided .zip lacked proper top-level manifest placement. • Manual extraction and restructuring were required just to make it uploadable. • ZIP file included macOS .DS_Store and __MACOSX cruft — sloppy packaging.

2. Outdated Architecture • After resolving packaging issues and uploading manually, the installer failed with unexplained white screens and path errors. • Logs pointed to an embedded ionCube encryption layer, a relic technology incompatible with secure, open environments.

3. ionCube Loader Required • The plugin fails completely unless ionCube (a closed-source, obfuscation extension) is manually installed. • This was not disclosed anywhere on the product page. • ionCube is fundamentally incompatible with most security-focused deployments and modern PHP best practices.

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⚠️ Installation Required These Manual Steps: • Manual directory creation: upload/upgrades/module/QuickBooksQBO/ • Extraction, flattening, and recompression of contents to fix zip hierarchy. • Manual config.php unlock override • Manual PHP setting changes (upload_max_filesize, post_max_size) • Manual .htaccess exceptions and referer trust rules • Still failed due to ionCube requirement.

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