QuickBooks Bookkeeping Review For 2025

Category: Bookkeeping
QuickBooks streamlines bookkeeping for small businesses with plenty of features and a user-friendly interface. It offers several plans for a wide variety of business sizes and needs.
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Company:Intuit

QuickBooks Bookkeeping Plans & Pricing

Simple Start
$30
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30-day FREE trial, 60-day money-back guarantee
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Essentials
$65
/mo
30-day FREE trial, 60-day money-back guarantee
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Plus
$99
/mo
30-day FREE trial, 60-day money-back guarantee
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Advanced
$235
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30-day FREE trial, 60-day money-back guarantee
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QuickBooks Comparison

Expert Review

4.5
Price
4.5
Ease Of Use
4.5
Features
4.5
Support
4.5

Pros

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Customizable and intuitive dashboard and reports
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Bank and credit card linking/synchronization
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Tons of integrations
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No contract

Cons

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24/7 customer phone support is only for advanced customers
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Learning curve

QuickBooks Bookkeeping's Offerings

Please refer to the QuickBooks website for the terms and conditions.

QuickBooks offers new users a 30-day free trial, during which you have free reign over all the features. You can then subscribe to one of three plans. Each one charges $4 per employee per month on top of the base subscription price.

Customer Support

QuickBooks offers online chat and phone customer support 6 am – 6 pm PST during the week, and 6 am – 3 pm on Saturdays. Advanced plan users can access 24/7 support. Customer support is generally responsive, although a few online have complained about reaching them and getting their questions resolved.

Additional customer support:
Blog
QuickBooks’ blog covers QuickBooks features, news, and plenty of small business topics.

Community Forum
If QuickBooks’ resources can’t answer your question, you can ask it in the community forums.

Features & Functionality

General Features

Income and Expense Tracking

A foundational aspect of bookkeeping is, well, tracking your income and expenses. Fortunately, QuickBooks makes this super easy. You can categorize transactions with the click of a button, add transactions manually, sort and filter through your transactions, and more. It keeps all of this in one intuitive dashboard, making for easy bookkeeping.

Receipt Storage and Organization

When you’re out and about shopping for your business, you need a way to save the receipts for documentation purposes.

QuickBooks makes it easy to snap a photo of a receipt for any transaction and attach it to said transaction for future reference.

Customer Quoting, Invoicing, and Payment Tracking

QuickBooks offers plenty of quoting and invoicing features that make it easy to provide customers quotes, send custom invoices, and track payments. You can also arrange recurring invoices and send reminders.

QuickBooks lets you account for discounts, shipping, and taxes, too making your bookkeeping simple. Of course, much of this invoicing data flows directly into your books, too.

Business Insights and Reporting

A key aspect of bookkeeping is evaluating your numbers via reports.

QuickBooks lets you generate succinct balance sheets, P&L statements, and other types of statements and reports with a button click or two. You can also export reports with ease if needed.

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General Ledger
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Manages Accounts Payable/Receivable
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Income & Expenses Tracking/Management
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Account Reconciliations
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Bookkeeping Services Integration
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Financial Reporting
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Receipt Scanning
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Invoicing
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Dashboards
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Auditing
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Inventory Tracking/Management
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Pay Bills
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Cloud-based
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Collections
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Multi-currency
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Multi-user Access
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Manage Vendors/Contacts
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Manage Purchase Orders
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Bank and Credit Card Synchronization
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Payroll Management
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Convert Quotes to Invoices
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Mobile App

Tax Preparation

Simplify and optimize tax filing with expert features and tools.

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Tax Compliance
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Manage Tax Calculations/Reporting
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Accountant-prep Friendly/Accessible

Time-Saving Automations

Automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.

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Automation of Invoices/Notifications
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Suggests Transaction Matches
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Purchase Order Automation

Add-Ons

Don’t want to do your books yourself? Quickbooks offers live virtual bookkeeping for a one-time “cleanup” fee plus an extra $200/month.

During the first month, Quickbooks’ bookkeepers will clean and organize your financial records, bringing your financials up to date. You’ll also receive setup help, and Quickbooks will provide you your updated financial statements.

After that, Quickbooks does everything for you each month. They’ll also close out each month, provide you with financial reports, and offer convenient virtual support.

Quickbooks also offers payroll add-ons for an extra monthly fee. There are three payroll plans:

  • Core: Offers full-service payroll with automated payroll runs and tax calculations, health benefits services, garnishment/deduction management, next-day direct deposit, and reporting. $22.50 per month, then $45 per month, plus $4 per employee per month.
  • Premium: Has all Core features plus same-day direct deposit, worker’s comp. administration, an HR support center, expert setup and review, and on-the-go time tracking. $37.50 per month, then $75 per month, plus $8/employee/month.
  • Advanced: Contains all Core and Premium features plus white glove custom setup, 24/7 support, on-the-go project tracking, Tax Penalty Protection, and a personal HR advisor. $62.50 per month, then $125 per month, plus $10/employee/month.

Quickbooks supports integrations with numerous third-party products as well:

  • Import transactions from PayPal, Square, or your financial institution
  • Track sales and sales tax for Shopify and many other e-commerce platforms
  • Process PoS or mobile card reader payments
  • Automate accounts payable with Bill.com
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Payment Processing
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Payroll Processing
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Project Management
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Time tracking
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Third-party Integrations

Supported Devices

Access and use on a variety of compatible devices.

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Windows
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Android
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Linux
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iPhone/iPad
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Mac
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Web-based

Pricing Model

Flexible pricing structures tailored to different needs and budgets.

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Monthly Payment
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One-Time Payment
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Annual Subscription

Ease Of Use:

QuickBooks’ interface can take beginners some time to get acquainted with since there’s a lot in the software. Still, the interface is pretty intuitive once you familiarize yourself.

Intuit provides plenty of video tutorials to guide you in setting up and using your account. Given the popularity of QuickBooks, you can find more help through third-party tutorials online, too.

Alternatively, you can pay QuickBooks $50 one time to set up your account for you.

Verdict:

QuickBooks set the bar for small and mid-sized business accounting solutions. It provides a wide collection of helpful features for bookkeeping and other areas of small business accounting/financial management. With several plans and a bunch of helpful add-ons/integrations, you can customize the software to fit your exact needs.

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6 Reviews
1-10 employees
Used for: Less than 6 months
16 Mar - 2021
Quickbooks offers true experts
I no longer approach tax time with anxiety. My books are now heavily accurate and reliable.
Like:
  • The live bookkeeping add on for quickbooks is remarkable. I can now move forward with my finances with confidence. The professionals with this services were extraordinary. They helped clean up my books and got me completely set up with quickbooks. The ong
Dislike:
  • One major issue I've had is it can take a considerable amount of time to generate a report. The customization leaves a lot of room for rebuilding things and having to manually enter information.
11-50 employees
Used for: 1-2 years
15 Feb - 2021
Impressive features, all around amazing solution
It feels very intuitive to find what you need with Quickbooks. I update everything at the end of the day, and it is a pretty fast process of uploading. I just add my recepits and other attachments for transactions. Quickbooks helps categorize, track, and
1-10 employees
Used for: 1-2 years
20 Jan - 2021
Love QuickBooks!
This software has changed the financial processes of my company. My bookkeeping is orderly and oriented perfectly for tax time and for expenses, etc.
Like:
  • Wonderful selection of integrations. The importing and exporting of data is amazingly simple.
11-50 employees
Used for: 6-12 months
18 Jan - 2021
Perfect for Small & Medium Businesses
Now, this what I call 5-star bookkeeping software. Highly effective and efficient. I recommend it to all types of businesses out there.
11-50 employees
Used for: 6-12 months
18 Jan - 2021
Well designed
My company is highly pleased with QB so far. Its flexibility goes unmatched. Reports and transaction forms go into great depth, which has been helping me improve processes where needed.
Like:
  • This software has effortlessly integrated with all the add ons that my business needs.
1-10 employees
Used for: 6-12 months
14 Jan - 2021
Effective & Efficient
Wonderful interface. As a freelancer, QuickBooks has greatly helped me in streamlining my bookkeeping process.
Like:
  • I can access data anywhere anytime.
Dislike:
  • A few of the features are complicated to configure.
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