Expense tracking is a way to keep tabs on the purchases you make to run your business. By using the expense tracker in QuickBooks Online, you’re able to see exactly how much you’re spending on your business and proactively assign tax categories so you can claim deductions come tax time.
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- Customer AIPrioritizes leads from your inbox and drafts email follow-ups.
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- Delegate tasks to AIBETALet AI handle tasks under your guidance
- Inventory trackingTrack products, cost of goods, see what’s popular, create purchase orders, and manage vendors.
- BudgetingCreate budgets with real-time data you can collaborate with your team on.
- Project profitabilitySee how every project is tracking, so you can control costs and maximize profit.
- Class and location trackingMeasure which products, services, and locations are generating the most revenue for your business—and which can be optimized to perform better.
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- Project Management AIGets projects started faster by auto-populating drafts with details pre-filled.
- Intuit Intelligence chatBETAChat for instant insights. Limited queries.
- Delegate tasks to AIBETALet AI handle tasks under your guidance
- Custom roles and permissionsCreate and manage users and pre-defined roles, assigning them specific access levels to various areas of QuickBooks.
- Unlimited classes and locationsMeasure which products, services, and locations are generating the most revenue for your business—and which can be optimized to perform better.
- Custom report builderBuild and save reports that are tailored to your business needs.
- Workflow automationSave time and mitigate risk with automated workflows and set reminders for improved cash flow and more.
- Data sync with ExcelSeamlessly send data back and forth between and Excel for more accurate business data and custom insights.
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Intuit Intelligence
Intuit Intelligence chat
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Ask anything—from “What’s driving my profit?” to “What invoices am I waiting on?”—and get instant, contextual answers in clear, concise language.**
Sales Tax AI
Catch errors quickly and stay compliant with AI support that identifies discrepancies and provides recommendations for reconciliation.**
Accounting AI
Bookkeeping reimagined for today. Smart books that go beyond intelligent categorization to deliver cleaner, more accurate books.**
Customer AI
Turn interest into new business automatically. Customer AI helps you manage leads, follow-ups, and proposals to help accelerate your growth.**
Finance AI
Make faster, data-backed decisions and plan for the future with an AI agent that analyzes progress toward your KPIs and delivers scenario planning specific to your business.**
Project Management AI
Gets projects started faster by auto-populating drafts with details pre-filled.**
Accounting
Automated bookkeeping
QuickBooks learns how you categorize income and expenses and then automatically matches and records transactions from then on.
Tax deductions
Automatically sort business expenses into tax categories to keep more of what you earn.
Automated bank feeds
Connect your bank accounts directly to QuickBooks to automatically sync transactions for accurate, real-time data.
Smart expense categorization
Intuit AI uses next-level intelligent automation to speed up expense categorization with improved accuracy.
Multiple currencies
Record transactions in other currencies without worrying about exchange rate conversions.
Anomaly detection and resolution
Close your books in a fraction of the time with advanced AI that includes anomaly detection that automatically finds and resolves discrepancies with you in control.
Revenue recognition
Easily track deferred revenue for accurate reporting and compliance.
Auto-track fixed assets
Automatically track fixed asset values, access all fixed asset info in one spot, and get insights about what may come next.
Expenses
Auto-match transactions
When you pay vendors, QuickBooks records the transaction and matches it for you.**
Receipt capture
Snap photos of your receipts and categorize them on the go.
Mileage tracking
Automatically track kilometres, categorize trips, and get sharable reports.
Bill management
Organize and track your business bills online.
Sales and Get Paid
Estimates
Customize estimates, accept mobile signatures, see estimate status, and convert estimates into invoices.
Invoice and payments
Accept credit cards and bank transfers in the invoice with QuickBooks Payments, get status updates and reminders.
Sales and sales tax
Sales tax is calculated and tracked for you so you can file confidently with the CRA.
Recurring invoices
Automatically invoice clients who have regularly-scheduled orders.
Customer Hub
Customer management
Centralize all customer information and filter for insights with custom fields.
Notes and tasks management
Keep an organized list of notes and to-dos for each customer—with automated reminders that you can assign to specific employees.
Reputation management
Capture referrals, testimonials, feedback, and work requests from your customers.
Lead management
Track new leads and existing customer opportunities in one place—and view their status in the sales cycle.
Contract upload and e-signature
Upload and store contracts and get e-signatures from your customers.
Proposals
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Create professional-looking proposals with your branding, custom fields, and e-signatures. Track status and set follow-up reminders to keep deals moving with ease.
Time
Enter time
Enter employee time by client or project and automatically add it to invoices.
Project Management
Project profitability
See how every project is tracking, so you can control costs and maximize profit.
Project management
Automatically create projects and track work with continuous project cost allocation, helping keep you more on time and on budget.
Inventory
Inventory tracking
Track products, cost of goods, see what’s popular, create purchase orders, and manage vendors.
Purchase orders
Create and send purchase orders to your vendors whenever you need to buy supplies, then add it to a transaction so your books are up to date.
Sales orders
Keep track of items you agreed to sell to customers in the future.
Business Intelligence
Cash flow planning
See your historical cash flow based on your past bank transactions and plan for future events.
Budgeting
Create budgets with real-time data you can collaborate with your team on.
Forecasting
Use your historical financial data to analyze trends and create projections of future outcomes, so you can make better-informed business decisions.
Custom report builder
Build and save reports that are tailored to your business needs.
Data sync with Excel
Seamlessly send data back and forth between QuickBooks Online Advanced and Excel for more accurate business data and custom insights.
Connected Platform
Users
Invite your accountant to access your books, control user-access levels, and share reports without sharing a log-in.
Mobile app
Enter transactions, record expenses, invoice customers, and send reports anywhere. QuickBooks automatically backs up your data to the cloud and syncs across all your devices.
Automatic business feed
Keep track of your high-level business performance, with real time updates on what needs your attention.
Integrate with hundreds of apps
Eliminate manual data entry by integrating apps you already use with QuickBooks Online, so data flows in automatically, and you can see everything in one place.
Autosave & Data Protection
Your work is automatically saved as you go. When you exit a page with unsaved changes, we'll remind you to save before you close.
Reports
Run and export reports including profit & loss, balance sheets, and accounts payable and receivable.
Custom roles and permissions
Create and manage users and pre-defined roles, assigning them specific access levels to various areas of QuickBooks.
Custom fields
Tailor QuickBooks to your business with custom fields that you can use to capture specific customer, vendor, employee, product, and service details.
Class and location tracking
Measure which products, services, and locations are generating the most revenue for your business—and which can be optimized to perform better.
Workflow automation
Save time and mitigate risk with automated workflows and set reminders for improved cash flow and more.
Batch invoices and expenses
Create invoices, enter, edit, and send multiple invoices faster.
Backup and restore
Continuously and automatically back up your changes, restore a specific version of your company, and view version history.
Premium support
Front-of-the-line support over phone and chat.
Keep your eyes on the big picture
QuickBooks makes it easy to see where you stand and plan for what’s next.
Take charge of your cash flow
Track your money-in and money-out and get actionable insights right in QuickBooks.
Track profits and loss
With reports in your dashboard you always know how much money’s on-hand and where you stand.
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