Understand the navigation menu in QuickBooks on the Intuit Platform

Learn how to customize your navigation menu in QuickBooks Online.

Manage your regular bookkeeping tasks in a more convenient way through the QuickBooks Online menu. Here’s how you can customize it to manage your workflows and quickly reach your preferred QuickBooks pages, which saves you time.

For a better experience, open this article in QuickBooks Online. Launch side-by-side view

Overview of the navigation menu

Move around QuickBooks by hovering over options in the navigation menu on the left side. Select the option you want from the pop-up menu, or select the icon itself if no menu appears.

• + Create opens a new transaction, project, task or goal. 
• Bookmarks show a list of pages you’ve saved for easy navigation. 
• Dashboard helps you plan, budget, and monitor your finances with a variety of widgets. You can add or remove widgets to tailor the dashboard to your needs.
• Feed shows an AI-generated summary of recent transactions and the state of your finances.
• Reports collect data about your business’ activities and present them in a single document for you to study and use to help run your business.
• My apps shows the various task hubs and services you can access in QuickBooks Online. 

Below these options, you can pin up to three apps for quick access. When you first open QuickBooks Online, these will be Accounting, Sales, and Customers, but you can change them.

To add or remove pinned apps, select Customize, then select the apps you want to include and select Save.

Browse your apps

The My apps menu puts your different tasks, transactions, and dashboards into specific areas, like Time, Accounting, and Projects. Select a hub or feature to choose from options related to that topic. You can bookmark individual screens from this menu by hovering over its name and selecting the bookmark icon next to it.

As you add services like Payroll to QuickBooks, we add them to the bottom of this menu.

Related links

• Get started and adjust settings after you sign up for Intuit QuickBooks
• Get more done with the new QuickBooks Intuit platform