QuickBooks Online: plans, prices and score

Among the five accounting scorecards here, QuickBooks Online has the longest list of native store connectors, with Shopify, Amazon and Square all listed. Its four paid US plans run from $38 to $340 a month, and the price detail sits in the cost of a QuickBooks subscription. For a ledger chosen against the closest rivals, the QuickBooks and Xero face-off and FreshBooks or QuickBooks set it side by side.

Plans and score

Simple Start lists invoicing with online payments. Essentials adds multicurrency, Plus adds reconciliation and inventory, and Advanced keeps both at a higher price. It rates 4.3 from 8,544 Capterra reviews. Receipt capture and reports earn some of the highest levels in the group. Bank matching and invoicing sit at middle levels, and a second company needing its own subscription earns the lowest level, which holds the score back.

Owners comparing options can read alternatives to QuickBooks, and software to keep the books in ranks every general ledger. Monthly bank matching works the same way in any package, and checking the ledger against the bank statement walks through it.

Who should look elsewhere

Wave and Zoho Books both earn a higher price transparency level, and FreshBooks earns a higher invoicing level, so each is listed under the point where it scores above QuickBooks. A business whose bank matching is the main job can look at Zoho Books for the same reason.

Banks and till feeds are the other split. The bank feed answers explain what to expect from any tool, and accounting that reads the till ranks the options for a café. Pricing and setup questions about this tool are in questions about QuickBooks.

Quick answers

Anyone choosing between invoicing tools can see where FreshBooks earns points, and two tools compared head on shows the other pairings.