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Claude Intuit QuickBooks connectorWhat Claude can do in your Intuit QuickBooks account.
The Claude Intuit QuickBooks connector exposes 74 tools. 37 read (reports, receivables, payroll, loans), 18 change your books (invoices, estimates, payment links, customers) and 19 are documented nowhere. Below: what Claude does, what it confirms with you, and why it is US-only.
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What changes once Claude can reach your books
Most small business owners open QuickBooks for one question at a time: did we make money last month, who still owes us, did payroll go out. With the connector, you ask Claude in plain words and it pulls the answer from your books, or drafts the invoice you were about to make by hand. Intuit's own article lists what the connector covers, and says plainly that it stops there.
Read the business in plain words. profit-loss-quickbooks-account, cash-flow-quickbooks-account and qbo_accounting_get_balance_sheet bring your reports into the chat, and benchmarking-quickbooks-account sets them against similar businesses. No account yet? The generator tools work from transactions you upload or paste.
Get paid faster. qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_summary shows who is late, qbo_sales_create_invoice drafts the bill with a review link, and qbo_sales_send_invoice_reminder nudges the client once you confirm.
Answer payroll questions. A long list of payroll look-ups, read-only by Intuit's account, covers the payroll side, and qbo_payroll_create_employee adds a new hire.
What it does not do matters just as much. Intuit says the connector serves US customers only, and that its use cases are limited to the ones it lists. 19 tools on the directory sheet, including every recurring-invoice tool, have no description anywhere. Nothing runs by itself either: no tool fires when an invoice is paid. For hands-off flows, the Intuit QuickBooks n8n integration and the Intuit QuickBooks Make integration do a different job, on a trigger.
Five words before you connect
The vocabulary around this connector, in one minute.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and your QuickBooks company, so Claude can read and work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing the connector lets Claude do, like pulling a report. Claude picks the tools it needs by itself as it replies.
- Authorization
- Intuit's own sign-in screen, where you let Claude into your QuickBooks company with your Intuit credentials. You can withdraw it later.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before a change to your books. Intuit adds its own preview before anything is sent to a client.
- MCP
- The shared standard behind connectors: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as QuickBooks.
Connect QuickBooks to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find QuickBooks in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and look for QuickBooks. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable the connector before members can each sign in.
- 02
Sign in with Intuit
Click Connect and sign in with your Intuit credentials in the window Intuit opens. If the link ever breaks, Disconnect and connect again. The window belongs to Intuit, not to Claude.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Check Intuit's authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to Intuit, and it sets what the access covers. It can sound broader than what Claude does day to day: by default Claude still asks before each change.
The 74 tools, split by what they do
Intuit QuickBooks gives Claude 74 tools: 37 that read your account, 18 that change something in it, and 19 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes in your books, and what no official source describes. Tool names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 37 read
- 18 write
- 19 not documented
Tools index
- profit-loss-generator
- cash-flow-generator
- benchmarking-against-industry
- profit-loss-quickbooks-account
- cash-flow-quickbooks-account
- benchmarking-quickbooks-account
- company-info
- quickbooks-import-status
- qbo_accounting_get_balance_sheet
- qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_summary
- qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_detail
- qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_customer_summary
- qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_product_summary
- qbo_payroll_get_company_info
- qbo_payroll_get_company_pay_types
- qbo_payroll_get_company_timeoff_details
- qbo_payroll_get_company_deductions_contributions
- qbo_payroll_get_pay_schedules
- qbo_payroll_get_employees
- qbo_payroll_search_employee
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_details
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_contract_details
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_compensations
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_deductions
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_timeoff_assignments
- qbo_payroll_get_employees_by_work_location
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_manager_details
- qbo_payroll_get_payslips
- qbo_payroll_get_payslip_details
- qbo_payroll_get_company_last_payroll_run
- qbo_payroll_get_company_payroll_readiness
- qbo_payroll_get_employee_payroll_readiness
- qbo_lending_get_peer_offers
- qbo_lending_get_loans
- qbo_lending_help
- qbo_lending_estimate_loan_payments
- qbo_lending_shop_loans
- quickbooks-transaction-import
- quickbooks-profile-info-update
- qbo_contact_create_customer
- qbo_sales_create_invoice
- qbo_sales_update_invoice
- qbo_sales_delete_invoice
- qbo_sales_duplicate_invoice
- qbo_sales_send_invoice
- qbo_sales_send_invoice_reminder
- qbo_sales_create_estimate
- qbo_sales_update_estimate
- qbo_sales_delete_estimate
- qbo_sales_send_estimate
- qbo_sales_duplicate_estimate
- qbo_sales_create_payment_link
- qbo_sales_send_payment_link
- qbo_catalog_create_product
- qbo_payroll_create_employee
- industry-recommendation
- qbo_accounting_get_product_service_list
- qbo_contact_search_customer
- qbo_sales_get_invoices
- qbo_sales_create_recurring_invoice
- qbo_sales_get_recurring_invoices
- qbo_sales_update_recurring_invoice
- qbo_sales_delete_recurring_invoice
- qbo_sales_operate_recurring_invoice
- qbo_sales_get_estimates
- qbo_sales_get_payment_links
- qbo_sales_update_payment_link
- qbo_catalog_search_products
- qbo_sales_get_settings
- qbo_sales_update_settings
- qbo_sales_get_transaction_document
- qbo_payroll_update_employee
- qbo_payroll_assign_employee_work_location
- qbo_payroll_save_employee_contract_details
What Claude reads (37)
37 toolsThirty-seven tools that look at reports, receivables, payroll and financing and leave your books as they are.
profit-loss-generator
Builds a structured profit and loss statement from figures you upload or paste, with no QuickBooks subscription needed. Intuit lists it among the options for people without an account.
cash-flow-generator
Turns the transactions you paste or upload into a summary of money coming in and going out, without needing a QuickBooks file behind it.
benchmarking-against-industry
Shows how your business compares with similar ones in your area, based on the business details and figures you provide rather than a live QuickBooks account.
profit-loss-quickbooks-account
Fetches your real-time profit and loss report straight from your QuickBooks account, so the numbers match what your bookkeeper sees.
cash-flow-quickbooks-account
Retrieves your statement of cash flows from QuickBooks, the report QuickBooks already keeps from your own books rather than a summary rebuilt from pasted figures.
benchmarking-quickbooks-account
Compares your actual QuickBooks financials with similar businesses, using the data already in your books instead of figures you type in.
company-info
Reads the company name, address and industry that QuickBooks holds on file for your business. Reading them leaves that record exactly as it was, one step before any benchmark.
quickbooks-import-status
Checks whether your most recent transaction import synced successfully, so you know the reports that follow include it.
qbo_accounting_get_balance_sheet
Pulls your balance sheet so Claude can talk you through assets, liabilities and equity. Intuit's sheet ties it to judging the health of your balance sheet.
qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_summary
Gives the overview of who owes you money and how late each customer is, grouped by age bracket.
qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_detail
Goes one level down from the summary and lists the individual unpaid invoices behind each overdue balance.
qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_customer_summary
Breaks your sales down by customer, so you see who is driving revenue and who has gone quiet over the period you pick.
qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_product_summary
Splits revenue by product or service line, the other half of Intuit's point about finding what actually drives your sales.
qbo_payroll_get_company_info
One of the payroll look-ups Intuit describes as read-only answers. Its name points at the company side of payroll, and no source lists the fields it returns.
qbo_payroll_get_company_pay_types
Covered by Intuit's read-only line on payroll look-ups. The directory names it after the pay types set up for the company; its exact output is undocumented.
qbo_payroll_get_company_timeoff_details
A read-only payroll look-up per Intuit's sheet, named after the company's time-off setup. No source details what comes back, so treat the answer as a starting point.
qbo_payroll_get_company_deductions_contributions
Listed under Intuit's read-only payroll answers, with a name that refers to company-level deductions and contributions, such as benefits. The fields themselves are not documented.
qbo_payroll_get_pay_schedules
Part of the payroll details Claude can look up, read-only by Intuit's account. Its name refers to pay schedules; no text describes its content.
qbo_payroll_get_employees
Read-only like the other payroll look-ups. The name refers to the list of people on payroll, and Intuit gives no separate description of the tool or its fields.
qbo_payroll_search_employee
Sits in the same read-only payroll group on Intuit's sheet. As the directory names it, it concerns finding a given employee; the search criteria are not documented.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_details
Intuit's phrase about looking up payroll details covers it, and nothing more specific does. The name refers to one employee's record, whose fields no source lists.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_contract_details
Read-only per Intuit's payroll line. Its name refers to an employee's contract details, which no source spells out field by field, so expect whatever QuickBooks stores.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_compensations
Belongs to the read-only payroll answers Intuit describes. The directory names it after an employee's compensation; the content is undocumented.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_deductions
A payroll look-up in Intuit's read-only group, named after one employee's deductions. No text lists what it shows, and the detail depends on your payroll setup.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_timeoff_assignments
Counted among the read-only payroll answers. Its name points at the time-off assigned to a given employee, and nothing more about it is documented by Intuit.
qbo_payroll_get_employees_by_work_location
Read-only on Intuit's sheet, like the rest of the payroll look-ups. Named after employees grouped by work location; the output is not described anywhere we read.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_manager_details
Within Intuit's read-only payroll answers. The directory names it after an employee's manager; no source describes the fields it brings back or how current they are.
qbo_payroll_get_payslips
Read-only payroll data per Intuit. Its name refers to payslips, and no source says how many or which periods it covers.
qbo_payroll_get_payslip_details
Payslip detail, as the directory names it, falls under Intuit's read-only payroll phrase. The breakdown it returns is undocumented, line by line.
qbo_payroll_get_company_last_payroll_run
A read-only look-up per Intuit's payroll line, named after the company's latest payroll run. Its exact content is not documented, dates and totals included.
qbo_payroll_get_company_payroll_readiness
Readiness at company level, going by the name, and read-only like its payroll neighbors. No source explains what that check covers or what counts as ready.
qbo_payroll_get_employee_payroll_readiness
Read-only, as Intuit describes payroll answers. Named after one employee's payroll readiness; the criteria it checks are not documented by Intuit or Anthropic.
qbo_lending_get_peer_offers
Intuit's sheet mentions peer lending benchmarks among its read-only QuickBooks Capital answers, and this tool's name echoes them. What it returns exactly is not described.
qbo_lending_get_loans
Lets Claude check your QuickBooks Capital loans, part of what Intuit describes as fast read-only answers on financing, without opening the lending pages yourself.
qbo_lending_help
Grouped with the read-only QuickBooks Capital answers. No source describes this tool on its own beyond that group.
qbo_lending_estimate_loan_payments
Estimating repayments is what the name refers to, inside Intuit's read-only QuickBooks Capital answers. The method behind the estimate is not documented.
qbo_lending_shop_loans
Shopping for loans, as the directory names it, sits with the read-only Capital answers on Intuit's sheet. No text describes what it returns or from which lenders.
What Claude changes (18)
18 toolsEighteen tools that alter your books or reach your clients. Sending and deleting come with a documented confirmation; the general rule covers the rest.
quickbooks-transaction-import
Approval: see the ruleCategorizes transactions and imports them into your general ledger, so they land in the books instead of sitting in a spreadsheet.
quickbooks-profile-info-update
Approval: see the ruleUpdates the company details QuickBooks keeps on file, such as your address or industry.
qbo_contact_create_customer
Approval: see the ruleAdds a new customer record to QuickBooks, ready to receive invoices and estimates.
qbo_sales_create_invoice
Approval: see the ruleCreates a new invoice in QuickBooks and hands back a link so you can review it before anything goes out.
qbo_sales_update_invoice
Approval: see the ruleEdits an existing invoice in QuickBooks, for instance a wrong quantity or a missing line.
qbo_sales_delete_invoice
Asks you firstRemoves an invoice from QuickBooks, and Intuit says this only happens after you confirm it.
qbo_sales_duplicate_invoice
Approval: see the ruleMakes a copy of an existing invoice in QuickBooks, a quick base for billing the same work again.
qbo_sales_send_invoice
Asks you firstDelivers an invoice to the customer by email, straight from QuickBooks.
qbo_sales_send_invoice_reminder
Asks you firstSends a payment reminder about an invoice to your customer, the nudge most people put off.
qbo_sales_create_estimate
Approval: see the ruleDrafts a quote for a client as a QuickBooks estimate and gives you a review link, following the same pattern as invoices.
qbo_sales_update_estimate
Approval: see the ruleEdits an estimate that already exists in QuickBooks, so a revised quote does not have to be drafted again from scratch.
qbo_sales_delete_estimate
Asks you firstRemoves an estimate from QuickBooks once you confirm, like invoice deletion.
qbo_sales_send_estimate
Asks you firstDelivers an estimate to the customer by email from QuickBooks.
qbo_sales_duplicate_estimate
Approval: see the ruleCopies an existing estimate in QuickBooks so a similar quote does not start from zero.
qbo_sales_create_payment_link
Approval: see the ruleGenerates a shareable payment link in QuickBooks that is not tied to any one customer.
qbo_sales_send_payment_link
Asks you firstSends a single-use payment link to one customer, the counterpart of the shareable link that anyone can use.
qbo_catalog_create_product
Approval: see the rulePuts a new product or service item into your QuickBooks catalog, ready to appear on invoices and estimates.
qbo_payroll_create_employee
Approval: see the ruleRegisters a new employee in QuickBooks payroll, one of the few payroll actions Intuit lists besides reading.
Undocumented (19)
19 toolsThese names are on the directory sheet and nowhere else. No official text says what they do, and we will not guess from a name.
industry-recommendation
No official source describes this tool. The directory publishes its name only, so this page says nothing about what it returns or whether it touches your file.
qbo_accounting_get_product_service_list
Undocumented: neither Intuit's article nor the directory sheet has a sentence about this tool, and a name is not a description. The catalog tools Intuit does describe are about adding products.
qbo_contact_search_customer
Intuit's help article lists adding customers, not this tool, and no other source mentions it. We leave its behavior unstated rather than read it off the name.
qbo_sales_get_invoices
Missing from Intuit's list of use cases and described by no other official text. Its effect is not documented here.
qbo_sales_create_recurring_invoice
The directory sheet talks about scheduling invoices in general, but no source ties that to this tool. Nothing documents what it does, or when any schedule would start.
qbo_sales_get_recurring_invoices
Not described anywhere we looked: Intuit's article leaves recurring invoices out of its use cases entirely, and the directory sheet gives only the name.
qbo_sales_update_recurring_invoice
Another recurring-invoice name on the sheet with no documentation behind it. No source says what it does to an existing schedule or to the invoices already issued.
qbo_sales_delete_recurring_invoice
No sentence in any official source covers this tool, and Intuit's note on confirming destructive actions names invoices and estimates only, not recurring schedules.
qbo_sales_operate_recurring_invoice
Of all the recurring-invoice tools, this is the vaguest name, and no source explains it. We do not guess what operating a schedule means in QuickBooks terms.
qbo_sales_get_estimates
Intuit's article covers several estimate actions, but no source says anything about this tool. It is not among the documented use cases, which Intuit says are the only ones.
qbo_sales_get_payment_links
No official text describes this one. Intuit's list covers generating payment links and delivering them to a customer, not this name, and the directory adds nothing.
qbo_sales_update_payment_link
Absent from Intuit's article and from any Anthropic page, so no source documents what it does to an existing payment link or to what a client would pay.
qbo_catalog_search_products
Intuit mentions adding products, and this name sits next to it on the sheet without any description of its own. No source says what it returns.
qbo_sales_get_settings
Sales settings are not among Intuit's documented use cases, and no other source covers this tool. We cannot say what it reads or returns.
qbo_sales_update_settings
No source describes this tool. Settings shape every document you issue, so the lack of documentation matters here more than elsewhere on the list.
qbo_sales_get_transaction_document
Nowhere in Intuit's article or the directory text is this tool described. Its output and effect remain undocumented, whatever the name suggests about transaction documents.
qbo_payroll_update_employee
Base pay comes up on Intuit's sheet, yet no source ties it to this tool or describes the tool at all. We leave it undocumented rather than guess what it covers.
qbo_payroll_assign_employee_work_location
Not documented by Intuit or Anthropic. The directory lists the name and nothing else, so what a work location assignment means here is not known.
qbo_payroll_save_employee_contract_details
Payroll is the area Intuit describes as read-only answers, and no official source explains this tool, which the directory lists anyway.
What Claude checks with you first
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on an account for someone. On QuickBooks, Intuit adds two documented checks of its own.
Intuit's directory sheet says you get a clear preview and give your confirmation before anything is sent, and its help article says destructive actions such as deleting an invoice or estimate wait for your confirmation. On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether members may let some actions run without a prompt, and they can limit a connector across the organization. Nobody overrides that from a personal account. Claude also works with your QuickBooks rights and nothing more.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. The answer per connector is published nowhere, which is a real hole in the catalog.
Anthropic publishes a general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector before members can each connect. Intuit's own conditions concern its software, not Claude: an active subscription on its side, or uploaded data. For the live state on your account, the connector's sheet in the official directory is the place to look.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing happens when a client pays, a bill falls due or payroll runs.
Intuit says its current use cases are limited to the ones its article lists, and several tools on the directory sheet fall outside that list. The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise. The partner badge in the directory is not a security audit, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it neither picks a publisher's tools nor guarantees their behavior. Intuit adds that QuickBooks data is not used to train Claude. For another connector where official sources clash, see the Claude gmail connector.
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