QuickBooks Online Accounting API

aid: quickbooks-accounting
name: QuickBooks Online Accounting API
description: >-
  The QuickBooks Online Accounting API is Intuit's REST API for reading and
  writing the core accounting entities of a QuickBooks Online company file,
  including customers, vendors, items, invoices, bills, payments, accounts,
  journal entries, and tax codes. Apps authenticate via OAuth 2.0 against
  the Intuit Developer platform and target a per-company realm using
  https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId} in production or
  the sandbox host for testing. It is the foundation API for accounting,
  bookkeeping, invoicing, and financial reporting integrations on QuickBooks
  Online.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Accounting
  - Bookkeeping
  - Invoicing
  - Small Business
  - QuickBooks
  - Intuit
  - Financial Data
  - OAuth 2.0
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickbooks-accounting/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: quickbooks-accounting:accounting-api
    name: QuickBooks Online Accounting API
    description: >-
      REST API for managing QuickBooks Online accounting entities including
      Customer, Vendor, Employee, Item, Invoice, Bill, Payment, BillPayment,
      JournalEntry, Account, TaxCode, and Company information. All requests
      are scoped to a company realm and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0
      bearer access token issued by the Intuit Developer authorization server.
    humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
    baseURL: https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId}
    tags:
      - Accounting
      - Invoicing
      - Bookkeeping
      - REST API
      - OAuth 2.0
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
      - type: Getting Started
        url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/get-started
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/authentication-and-authorization/oauth-2.0
      - type: Sandbox
        url: https://sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company/{realmId}
      - type: API Explorer
        url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/most-commonly-used/account

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop
  - type: Developer Portal
    url: https://developer.intuit.com
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/
  - type: Sign Up
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/homepage
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/sandbox
  - type: Support
    url: https://help.developer.intuit.com/
  - type: SDK Hub
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/sdks-and-samples-collections
features:
  - name: Customers and Vendors
    description: >-
      Full CRUD over customer, vendor, and employee records with addresses,
      tax info, balances, and custom fields.
  - name: Invoices and Bills
    description: >-
      Create and manage sales invoices, vendor bills, sales receipts, credit
      memos, refunds, and apply payments against them.
  - name: Items and Inventory
    description: >-
      Manage service and inventory items including categories, pricing, tax
      codes, and stock quantity for inventory-enabled companies.
  - name: Accounts and Journal Entries
    description: >-
      Read the chart of accounts and post journal entries directly for
      bookkeeping automation and GL synchronization.
  - name: Reports
    description: >-
      Run native QuickBooks reports such as Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet,
      Trial Balance, and General Ledger via the Reports API.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Subscribe to entity change notifications so apps can react to creates,
      updates, deletes, and merges in near-real time.
solutions:
  - name: Accounting Integration
    description: >-
      Sync invoices, customers, and payments between QuickBooks Online and
      external CRM, e-commerce, billing, or ERP systems.
  - name: Embedded Bookkeeping
    description: >-
      Power vertical SaaS bookkeeping experiences by reading and writing
      directly to customers' QuickBooks Online company files.
  - name: Financial Reporting Automation
    description: >-
      Pull GL, AR, and AP data on a schedule for consolidated reporting,
      KPI dashboards, and FP&A automation.
useCases:
  - name: E-commerce Order Sync
    description: >-
      Push Shopify/WooCommerce orders into QuickBooks as invoices or sales
      receipts with line items, taxes, and payments.
  - name: Expense Management
    description: >-
      Create vendor bills and bill payments from expense management tools
      and reconcile them against bank feeds.
  - name: AR Automation
    description: >-
      Automate invoice creation, dunning, and payment application based on
      events in CRM and billing systems.
integrations:
  - name: Salesforce
    description: Sync accounts, opportunities, and orders to QuickBooks customers and invoices
  - name: Shopify
    description: Push orders, refunds, and payouts from Shopify into QuickBooks
  - name: Stripe
    description: Reconcile Stripe payouts and charges against QuickBooks invoices
  - name: HubSpot
    description: Bidirectional sync of contacts, companies, and deals with QuickBooks
  - name: Bill.com
    description: AP automation reading vendor bills from QuickBooks for approval workflows
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]