Foes Conduit

Conduit is a connector layer operated by Foes Inc. It reads a client's business systems on a schedule and lands that data in a warehouse the client owns. Foes operates the pipes. The client owns the water.

What it does

A Foes client running QuickBooks Online authorizes Conduit to read their accounting data. Conduit then runs scheduled, incremental, one-way syncs that write those records into the client's own data warehouse, a Supabase project or an Azure database that the client controls and pays for directly. Records land close to the shape QuickBooks returns them in. Modelling, reporting and business logic happen downstream, in whatever tools the client already uses.

Syncs are cursor based and idempotent. Re-running a window produces the same landed state rather than duplicates. Deletions in QuickBooks are reconciled through Intuit's change data capture feed so the client's warehouse does not accumulate records that no longer exist in the source.

How the QuickBooks Online connection works

Conduit connects to QuickBooks Online through Intuit's OAuth 2.0 authorization flow with read scope on accounting data. An authorized admin of the QuickBooks company grants that access once, on Intuit's own sign-in screen. Foes never asks for and never receives a QuickBooks username or password. The grant can be revoked at any time from inside QuickBooks, and revoking it stops the sync immediately.

Setup is operator mediated. There is no self-serve signup, because Conduit is sold as part of an engagement rather than as a subscription anyone can start on their own. See connecting a QuickBooks company for how a connection is issued.

What Conduit is not

Conduit is not a reporting product, a dashboard, or a data platform. It stores no client business data of its own. The only state it keeps is operational: which records it has already seen, how source identifiers map to landed rows, and a log of what each run did. Client accounting data passes through the runner in memory and comes to rest only in the client's warehouse. This is described precisely in the privacy policy.

Conduit is also not an interactive application. There is nothing to log into. See launching Conduit for what that means in practice.

Contact

Foes Inc. is a Canadian company at 36 Toronto Street, Suite 960, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For anything relating to Conduit, a connection, a data request, or these terms, write to hello@foes.co.