QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online is Intuit's cloud accounting platform for small and mid-sized businesses, providing invoicing, expense tracking, payroll, reporting, sales tax, and bookkeeping. The QuickBooks Online Accounting API (v3) gives developers REST access to customers, invoices, payments, items, vendors, journal entries, and the full chart of accounts. The API uses OAuth 2.0 with the Intuit OAuth platform and is sandbox-enabled for development and testing.

QuickBooks Online publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Company API. Tagged areas include Accounting, Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Small Business, and Finance.

QuickBooks Online’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, support, and 10 more developer resources.

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36.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

Accounting Bookkeeping Invoicing Small Business Finance Payments Payroll

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 36.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.0 / 15

Access Clarity 3.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

QuickBooks Payments API

REST API for processing card and bank payments, tokenizing payment methods, creating charges and refunds, and managing eChecks tied to a QuickBooks Online merchant account. Auth...

QuickBooks Online Company API

The Company API from QuickBooks Online — 8 operation(s) for company.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

QuickBooks Online Accounting Company API

OPEN COLLECTION

QuickBooks Online Accounting API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Quickbooks Online Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Quickbooks Online Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Quickbooks Online Scopes

5 scopes · authorizationCode

5 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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Quickbooks Online Agentic Access

8 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Developer Sign Up

Developer Sign Up

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: quickbooks-online
name: QuickBooks Online
description: QuickBooks Online is Intuit's cloud accounting platform for small and mid-sized businesses, providing invoicing,
  expense tracking, payroll, reporting, sales tax, and bookkeeping. The QuickBooks Online Accounting API (v3) gives developers
  REST access to customers, invoices, payments, items, vendors, journal entries, and the full chart of accounts. The API uses
  OAuth 2.0 with the Intuit OAuth platform and is sandbox-enabled for development and testing.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/quickbooks-online.png
tags:
- Accounting
- Bookkeeping
- Invoicing
- Small Business
- Finance
- Payments
- Payroll
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickbooks-online/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: quickbooks-online:payments-api
  name: QuickBooks Payments API
  description: REST API for processing card and bank payments, tokenizing payment methods, creating charges and refunds, and
    managing eChecks tied to a QuickBooks Online merchant account. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0.
  humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayments/docs/api/resources/all-entities/charges
  baseURL: https://api.intuit.com/quickbooks/v4/payments
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Cards
  - eCheck
  - Merchant Services
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayments/docs/get-started
- aid: quickbooks-online:quickbooks-online-company-api
  name: QuickBooks Online Company API
  description: The Company API from QuickBooks Online — 8 operation(s) for company.
  humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/most-commonly-used/account
  baseURL: https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3
  tags:
  - Company
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quickbooks-online-company-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/api/accounting/all-entities/account
  - type: OAuth 2.0
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/authentication-and-authorization/oauth-2.0
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://quickbooks-online-sandbox.api.intuit.com/v3
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/quickbooks-online-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/quickbooks-online-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/quickbooks-online-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/quickbooks-online-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/intuit
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/quickbooks
- type: Website
  url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.intuit.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop
- type: Pricing
  url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/
- type: Signup
  url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/signup/
- type: Developer Sign Up
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/myapps
- type: SDKs
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop/sdks-and-samples-collections
- type: Support
  url: https://help.developer.intuit.com
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.developer.intuit.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: quickbooks
x-relationship: product

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