QuickBooks

QuickBooks is Intuit's accounting software platform for small businesses, self-employed, and accountants, available as QuickBooks Online (cloud) and QuickBooks Desktop. The QuickBooks Online Accounting REST API provides programmatic access to a company's financial data, allowing developers to read, create, update, and delete accounting objects including invoices, customers, payments, bills, vendors, items, and tax data using OAuth 2.0 and JSON over HTTPS.

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

The QuickBooks catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

QuickBooks’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, signup flow, pricing, and 6 more developer resources.

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32.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

AccountingBookkeepingSmall BusinessFinancialsInvoicingPayrollTax

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 32.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 3.3 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

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APIs 3

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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
name: QuickBooks
description: QuickBooks is Intuit's accounting software platform for small businesses, self-employed, and accountants, available
  as QuickBooks Online (cloud) and QuickBooks Desktop. The QuickBooks Online Accounting REST API provides programmatic access
  to a company's financial data, allowing developers to read, create, update, and delete accounting objects including invoices,
  customers, payments, bills, vendors, items, and tax data using OAuth 2.0 and JSON over HTTPS.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/quickbooks.png
tags:
- Accounting
- Bookkeeping
- Small Business
- Financials
- Invoicing
- Payroll
- Tax
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickbooks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: quickbooks:online-accounting
  name: QuickBooks Online Accounting API
  description: REST API for the QuickBooks Online accounting platform, exposing accounting objects such as Invoice, Customer,
    Payment, Bill, Vendor, Account, Item, Estimate, JournalEntry, and TaxRate over JSON with OAuth 2.0 authentication.
  humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop
  baseURL: https://quickbooks.api.intuit.com/v3/company
  tags:
  - Accounting
  - Invoices
  - Customers
  - Payments
  - OAuth 2.0
  properties:
  - 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/most-commonly-used/account
  - type: GettingStarted
    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: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/quickbooks-online-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
- aid: quickbooks:payments
  name: QuickBooks Payments API
  description: REST API for processing credit card, ACH, and eCheck payments through Intuit's payments platform, with support
    for charges, refunds, tokens, and payment methods.
  humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayments/docs/develop
  baseURL: https://api.intuit.com/quickbooks/v4/payments
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Credit Cards
  - ACH
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayments/docs/develop
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayments/docs/api/resources/all-entities/charges
- aid: quickbooks:payroll
  name: QuickBooks Payroll API
  description: REST API for managing payroll, employees, paychecks, and payroll tax information within QuickBooks Online Payroll.
  humanURL: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayrollapi/docs/develop
  baseURL: https://qb.sbfinservices.intuit.com
  tags:
  - Payroll
  - Employees
  - Tax
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbpayrollapi/docs/develop
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/quickbooks-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/quickbooks
- type: Website
  url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/
- 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/most-commonly-used/account
- type: Signup
  url: https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/homepage
- type: Pricing
  url: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/intuit
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

QuickBooks

Kin Score

APIs 3

QuickBooks Online Accounting API

QuickBooks Payments API

QuickBooks Payroll API

MCP Servers 1

MCP Server

Event Specifications 1

QuickBooks Online Webhooks

Spectral Rules 1

QuickBooks API Rules

Security Posture 1

Quickbooks Domain Security

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