Getting started
Free
$0/mo
- 1 user
- Track income and expenses
- 2 invoices a month
- Connect 1 bank; no mobile app or integrations
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QuickBooks
What it does for you
Invoices, payments, and the books, with help inside the accounting system you may already use.
PaidGeneral
Visit sitequickbooks.intuit.com
- Price
- Free, or from $38/mo
- Simple Start; intro offers vary
- Free trial
- 30 days
- Phone support free in trial
- Contract
- None
- No annual contract, cancel anytime
- Advanced users
- 25 users
- Plus 3 accountants
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See it in the field
Video by Kevin Stratvert
QuickBooks Payroll for Construction: Job Costing and Projects · Kevin Stratvert · May 1, 2026
What users say
Real quotes, copied word for word from public review pages. The good and the bad.
Liked
“QuickBooks Online makes invoicing, billing, and paying bills such an easy thing now!”
Critical
“has sent his ID three separate times, bank statement, federal id info, phone bills, letters from our bank, to "verify" and they told us it was all good and then lock us out of payroll so now we have to pay all of our employees by paper check which is not how we are set up.”
Liked
“The direct bank and credit card feeds drastically reduce manual entry.”
Critical
“The constant changes to menus and layouts are frustrating. Features move without warning, which disrupts workflows and slows down routine tasks.”
Liked
“For a monthly fee of under $100, Quickbooks online gives us full financial insight into the profitability of our projects as well as for our company as a whole.”
Critical
“The customer support is a joke. Anytime I have called in for an issue, I get someone who has no idea how to fix my issue.”
Pricing and details
QuickBooks Online list prices: Free $0 (1 user, 2 invoices a month), Simple Start $38/mo, Essentials $85/mo, Plus $140/mo, Advanced $340/mo. At the time we checked, Intuit was showing 50% off for 3 months ($19, $42.50, $70, $170). Payroll, payments processing and some ACH bill pay carry separate fees.
Real-time profit and loss
Simple Start
$38/mo
- Access for 2 accountants
- Automated bookkeeping
- Invoices with QuickBooks Payments
- Intuit Intelligence AI features
Metrics, projects, inventory
Essentials and Plus
$85/mo and $140/mo
- Enhanced reports and employee time on invoices
- Plus: project profitability
- Plus: inventory, classes and locations
- Plus: budgets
Larger teams
Advanced
$340/mo
- 25 users and 3 accountants
- Construction financials and project financials
- Custom permissions and workflows
- Priority Circle support
- Free trial or demo
- 30-day free trial on paid plans; phone support is free during the trial. A Free plan is also offered with no credit card.
- Who it's for
- Small and growing businesses, including contractors and service companies that need invoicing, bookkeeping, payroll and project tracking; Advanced adds construction financials.
- Platforms
- Cloud web app plus iOS and Android apps (the mobile app is not included with the Free plan).
- Setup and onboarding
- Self-serve setup Intuit says takes about five minutes after syncing banks; expert-guided setup on paid plans; Intuit Experts bookkeeping available for a fee.
- Contract
- No annual contract; you can switch plans or cancel anytime, per Intuit.
- Support
- Chat on all plans; phone support on Simple Start and above; Priority Circle on Advanced. Sales line 1-844-344-3068.
Main integrations
Built in or by IntuitQuickBooks PaymentsQuickBooks PayrollBill PayExcel sync (Advanced)
Last checked Oct 20, 2026. Sources: QuickBooks Online pricing, Capterra reviews, App Store listing, Google Play listing.
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