Connects to QuickBooks Desktop (Pro, Premier, Enterprise) through its local SDK, enabling read access to customers, vendors, employees, items, accounts, invoices, bills, payments, inventory, time, custom fields, and standard reports, plus optional create, update, delete, and void operations with previews, confirmation tokens, idempotency keys, and audit logging.
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@quickbooks-mcp show me all unpaid invoices from this quarter"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Open-source MCP server that connects QuickBooks Desktop (Pro, Premier, Enterprise) to LLMs and agents.
Status: pre-1.0. Built and tested against recorded responses and the qbXML schema; not yet validated across QuickBooks versions (see COMPATIBILITY.md).
Read: customers, vendors, employees, items, accounts, invoices, bills, payments, inventory, time, custom fields, and every standard report (aging, P&L, balance sheet, ...), as compact tables.
Change, only if you allow it: create, update, delete and void, with previews, confirmation tokens, idempotency keys, batches and an audit log.
Safe by default: read-only, tax IDs and bank and card numbers masked, payroll off, card data never accepted.
Local: runs on your Windows PC next to QuickBooks and talks to it through its SDK. No cloud, no telemetry.
Related MCP server: qbo-mcp
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Then allow access once in QuickBooks (--authorize) and add the server to your AI app. Step by step: docs/GUIDE.md.
This project is for QuickBooks Desktop. If you use QuickBooks Online, use Intuit's own server: intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server (Apache-2.0). We read its design for ideas and wrote our own code; no code was copied.
QuickBooks Online server (Intuit) | This project (Desktop) | |
Targets | QuickBooks Online | QuickBooks Desktop Pro, Premier, Enterprise (Windows) |
Where it runs | Talks to Intuit's cloud API | On your PC, next to QuickBooks, through its local SDK |
Setup and sign-in | An Intuit developer app and OAuth | A one-time "allow this app" approval inside QuickBooks ( |
Only on Desktop | Inventory assemblies and sites, price levels, workers comp codes, custom fields via data extensions, opening a record in the QuickBooks window | |
Only on Online | Attachments, invoice PDFs and other cloud features | |
Safety default | See that project | Read-only until you enable writes; deletes and voids need your approval; sensitive numbers masked; payroll off; audit log |
Data path | Through Intuit's cloud | Stays on your computer except what the assistant is shown |
The two do not share a company file or an account: a business on Online should not use this project, and a Desktop business cannot use Intuit's.
Windows with QuickBooks Desktop installed and licensed.
Admin access to the company file for the one-time authorization.
Not for QuickBooks Online (Intuit has its own MCP server), QuickBooks for Mac (no SDK), card processing, or running as a Windows service. See docs/SCOPE.md.
User guide: install, authorize, connect clients, troubleshoot, FAQ
Tools: every tool, parameter and example
Prompt cookbook, Writes and Reports
Roadmap and 1.0 checklist
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Intuit. See NOTICE.md.
MIT
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