Key differences between QuickBooks Self-Employed and QuickBooks Solopreneur
For more information about differences between specific features offered in QuickBooks Self-Employed, QuickBooks Solopreneur, and other versions of QuickBooks Online you can visit our in-depth guide.
Below is a summary of key differences between QuickBooks Self-Employed and QuickBooks Solopreneur:
- Tax experiences: QuickBooks Self-Employed enables the user to export data to TurboTax, while QuickBooks Solopreneur has a seamless books to tax experience with QuickBooks Live Tax. It is designed to save time and effort for Schedule C filers to get your taxes filed accurately with unlimited help for your current tax year return from live tax experts, powered by TurboTax. Pay only when you file.**
- Payments, invoicing, and estimate features: With both QuickBooks Self-Employed and Solopreneur, you can create customized branded invoices. With QuickBooks Self-Employed and QuickBooks Payments, you have access to invoicing functionality that supports customer payments with credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and ACH. With QuickBooks Solopreneur and QuickBooks Payments, you’ll have updated payments functionality that enables simple payment requests and gives customers many ways to pay online: credit card, debit card, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and ACH payments. QuickBooks Solopreneur also adds the ability to create customized estimates, in addition to customized invoices.
- Transaction management features: Both QuickBooks Self-Employed and Solopreneur allow for separation of business and personal expenses. QuickBooks Solopreneur saves you time by automatically sorting your business and personal expenses, and you can easily review and recategorize as needed. No more manually separating expenses.
- Banking features: QuickBooks Solopreneur integrates with QuickBooks Checking, a business bank account that is easy to open, has no monthly fees or minimums, provides industry-leading APY, and connects to QuickBooks Payments.
- Pricing: QuickBooks Solopreneur subscriptions are currently $20 per month, or $215 annually. Check out our latest monthly and annual pricing plans for the latest pricing and promotions.
How do I move from QuickBooks Self-Employed to QuickBooks Solopreneur?
If you are a current QuickBooks Self-Employed customer who would like to move to QuickBooks Solopreneur, we can automatically migrate your subscription and much of your data to QuickBooks Solopreneur.
Follow the instructions in this guide to automatically migrate your data and subscription to QuickBooks Solopreneur and continue business as usual.
You also have the option to manually move your information from QuickBooks Self-Employed to QuickBooks Solopreneur – the guide above includes steps to help you manually move your information over to QuickBooks Solopreneur and cancel your existing QuickBooks Self-Employed subscription. If preferred, you can also start fresh in QuickBooks Solopreneur.
Whichever option you choose, we recommend downloading and backing up your reports from QuickBooks Self-Employed to ensure you have a copy of your data.
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Industry-leading Annual Percentage Yield (APY): Competitive rate information based on publicly available data for small business checking accounts provided by the largest national and online banks as of September 18, 2023. APYs are subject to change at any time.
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