Accounting & bookkeeping Invoicing & billing Payments

QuickBooks Online review

by Intuit

Cloud accounting that tracks your income and expenses, sends invoices, and takes card and bank payments so your books stay current without a spreadsheet.

What it costsas of August 2026

Solopreneur: $20/moOne-person tier
Simple Start: $38/mo
Essentials: $75/mo
Plus: $115/mo
Advanced: $275/mo

These are regular prices; Intuit runs frequent promo discounts for new signups, and you take either the discount or the 30-day trial, not both. Card and ACH payments are billed separately per transaction.

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What QuickBooks Online does

Pricing & terms

Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.

Solopreneur $20/mo; Simple Start $38, Essentials $75, Plus $115, Advanced $275

How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.

Flat monthly tiers per company file, with user seats included in each tier

Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?

Free 30 days, or take the intro discount instead; you cannot have both

ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.

Month to month, cancel anytime

Fit & support

Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.

Fine day to day, but the screen is busy and reports take some practice

SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.

Chat and callback Mon to Sat; only the $275 Advanced plan gets 24/7 help

What it does

Bank feedsPulls transactions from your bank so the books stay current without typing.

Connects your bank and card, pulls transactions in and learns your rules

Expenses & receiptsSnap a receipt from the truck and have it land in the right place.

Snap receipts and track mileage on the phone; paying bills needs Essentials up

Profit & loss reportingSee whether the year is actually making money, by job or overall.

Profit and loss, balance sheet and dozens more; custom builder on Advanced

Tax prep & filingGets you ready for tax time without a shoebox of paper.

Figures sales tax by address and tracks 1099s, but filing them costs extra

Syncs with job softwareTalks to your field-service tool so invoices are not entered twice.

Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and most others push invoices straight in

Alternatives to QuickBooks Online

Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.

FreshBooks

Cloud accounting built around invoicing and time tracking, so a trade owner can bill customers, log hours, track expenses, and take card payments from one account.$23/mo Lite, but that caps you at 5 billable clients

Wave

Free and low-cost accounting and invoicing software that lets a trade owner send invoices, track income and expenses, and take card or bank payments without paying much (or anything) for the books.Free forever on Starter; Pro is $16/mo billed yearly or $19 month to month

Xero

Cloud accounting software that handles the books, invoicing, bill payment, and bank reconciliation for a trade business, and connects to field-service tools your bookkeeper or accountant can log into.$25/mo Early (20 invoices, 5 bills); Growing $55, Established $90

FieldEdge

Established HVAC and plumbing field-service software with strong QuickBooks integration.Quote only. Owners report about $100 to $150 per user per month.

FieldPulse

A growing mid-tier field-service platform pitched as a step up from starter apps without enterprise cost.About $99/mo for 1-3 users, up to ~$399/mo at 10+ users

GorillaDesk

Field-service software popular with pest-control and lawn-care operators.From about $49/mo (Basic), priced per route

Housecall Pro

Field-service management for home-service trades, strong on dispatching, service agreements, and customer marketing.$59/mo (Basic, billed annually)

Jobber

Simple, well-liked field-service software for solo operators and small crews.$29/mo (Core, 1 user, billed annually)

How we research this

Pricing comes from Intuit's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.