For QuickBooks Desktop (country edition does not matter) and POS editions there are 3 types of licenses:
Read Only Desktop – For extracting data OUT of QuickBooks into applications like Crystal Reports, Power BI, MS Excel etc. for reporting purposes.
Read/Write Desktop – For extracting data OUT of QuickBooks and pushing data INTO QuickBooks with database management applications like MS Access, Visual Basic, etc. and 3rd party desktop applications that need to write data INTO QuickBooks.
Server Edition – For extracting data OUT of QuickBooks and pushing data INTO QuickBooks with database management applications like SQL Server, Web Server etc. and 3rd party service-based applications that need to read/write data INTO QuickBooks.
For the QuickBooks Online editions (country edition does not matter) there is only 1 type of license subscription that can be ordered:
QODBC for QuickBooks Online serves as all editions of the driver, Read Only Desktop, Read/Write Desktop and Server editions. (Subject to offering a server edition of QODBC for Online)