Intuit QuickBooks

Intuit's own hosted QuickBooks connector.

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What the Intuit QuickBooks connector does

Intuit's own hosted connector links a QuickBooks Online company to Claude. Anthropic's directory lists 11 tools covering profit and loss, cash flow, industry benchmarking and transaction import. Intuit's documentation describes considerably more: creating, sending and deleting invoices and estimates, and emailing payment links to customers.

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Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.

Intuit QuickBooks tools (11)

  • profit-loss-generator
  • cash-flow-generator
  • benchmarking-against-industry
  • profit-loss-quickbooks-account
  • cash-flow-quickbooks-account
  • benchmarking-quickbooks-account
  • company-info
  • quickbooks-transaction-import
  • quickbooks-import-status
  • quickbooks-profile-info-update
  • industry-recommendation
  • qbo_accounting_get_balance_sheet
  • qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_summary
  • qbo_accounting_get_ar_aging_detail
  • qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_customer_summary
  • qbo_accounting_get_sales_by_product_summary
  • qbo_accounting_get_product_service_list
  • qbo_contact_create_customer
  • qbo_contact_search_customer
  • qbo_sales_create_invoice
  • qbo_sales_update_invoice
  • qbo_sales_delete_invoice
  • qbo_sales_duplicate_invoice
  • qbo_sales_get_invoices
  • qbo_sales_send_invoice
  • qbo_sales_send_invoice_reminder
  • qbo_sales_create_recurring_invoice
  • qbo_sales_get_recurring_invoices
  • qbo_sales_update_recurring_invoice
  • qbo_sales_delete_recurring_invoice
  • qbo_sales_operate_recurring_invoice
  • qbo_sales_create_estimate
  • qbo_sales_update_estimate
  • qbo_sales_delete_estimate
  • qbo_sales_get_estimates
  • qbo_sales_send_estimate
  • qbo_sales_duplicate_estimate
  • qbo_sales_get_payment_links
  • qbo_sales_create_payment_link
  • qbo_sales_send_payment_link
  • qbo_sales_update_payment_link
  • qbo_catalog_create_product
  • qbo_catalog_search_products
  • qbo_sales_get_settings
  • qbo_sales_update_settings
  • qbo_sales_get_transaction_document
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_info
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_pay_types
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_timeoff_details
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_deductions_contributions
  • qbo_payroll_get_pay_schedules
  • qbo_payroll_get_employees
  • qbo_payroll_search_employee
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_details
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_contract_details
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_compensations
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_deductions
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_timeoff_assignments
  • qbo_payroll_get_employees_by_work_location
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_manager_details
  • qbo_payroll_get_payslips
  • qbo_payroll_get_payslip_details
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_last_payroll_run
  • qbo_payroll_get_company_payroll_readiness
  • qbo_payroll_get_employee_payroll_readiness
  • qbo_payroll_create_employee
  • qbo_payroll_update_employee
  • qbo_payroll_assign_employee_work_location
  • qbo_payroll_save_employee_contract_details
  • qbo_lending_get_peer_offers
  • qbo_lending_get_loans

Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.

Limits

  • The tool listing is stale by fourteen documented capabilities, all of them writes, sends or deletes. Intuit's help article documents invoice and estimate creation, sending, deletion and duplication, payment links, and customer and item creation. None has a name in the 11.
  • We could not verify the auth posture, and nothing about it is reachable. Every request to ai-inc.quickbooks.intuit.com — the MCP endpoint, the host root, and four .well-known paths — returned an Akamai HTTP 403 "Access Denied" page. Bodies differed only where the path is echoed back. This is an edge rule blocking non-browser clients, not an authentication challenge, so we recorded authVerified: false. No RFC 9728 descriptor, no authorization-server metadata and no scope list could be read.
  • We cannot say what OAuth scopes apply, or whether any boundary separates reads from writes. The only boundary Intuit documents is a confirmation prompt before deleting an invoice or estimate.
  • Anthropic's own metadata for this entry is internally inconsistent. The snapshot records is_authless: true alongside permissions of "Read and write", and an open issue on Anthropic's connector tracker attributes a broken OAuth flow to exactly that flag.
  • US customers only, per Intuit's help article. Intuit publishes no timeline for other regions.
  • Intuit publishes no tool enumeration. Its documentation is capability prose and example prompts. There is no second list of names to diff against the directory's — only a second list of capabilities, which is what the reverse-honeycomb table above uses.
  • No parameter schemas or safety annotations are available. The blocked endpoint means no tools/list response, so nothing here reports readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.
  • Intuit disclaims the output where it matters most. Its help article states that results in the no-subscription mode are "based entirely on the information you provide" and advises consulting a qualified accountant or financial advisor for decisions with financial or legal implications.
  • Emailed documents cannot be recalled. Sending an invoice, estimate or payment link reaches a third party immediately, and Intuit documents no confirmation gate on sends — only on deletes.

Frequently asked questions

Can the QuickBooks connector for Claude send an invoice to my customer?

Yes. Intuit's help article documents a prompt naming an invoice number and a customer email address, and states QuickBooks delivers the invoice to the customer by email. It documents the same for estimates, and a one-time payment link sent to a customer address. No tool name in Anthropic's 11-name listing carries a send verb, so the listing does not reveal this.

Does the QuickBooks connector write to my general ledger?

Yes, directly. Intuit's help article states that the import-transactions use case categorizes and imports transactions into your General Ledger. That is a posted accounting record with audit consequences, not a report. It is one of the few consequential writes the tool listing does surface, as quickbooks-transaction-import.

How many tools does the Intuit QuickBooks connector actually have?

More than the 11 Anthropic lists. Intuit's own help article documents fourteen further capabilities the listing does not name, including creating, updating, sending, deleting and duplicating invoices and estimates, payment links, and adding customers and products. Eleven is a stale floor, not a total, and the gap skews toward writes.

Can the connector delete an invoice or estimate in QuickBooks?

Yes, with a confirmation step. Intuit's help article documents both deleting an invoice and deleting an estimate, and states that destructive actions such as deleting an invoice or estimate require your confirmation before QuickBooks makes any changes. No delete verb appears anywhere in Anthropic's 11-name tool listing.

Is this the same as Intuit's open-source QuickBooks MCP server?

No, they are two separate projects. This page covers Intuit's hosted remote connector at ai-inc.quickbooks.intuit.com. Intuit also publishes quickbooks-online-mcp-server on GitHub, an Apache-2.0 local stdio server advertising 145 tools across 29 entity types. The two share no tool names at all, and only the local one books journal entries.

Why does connecting QuickBooks to Claude skip the Intuit sign-in?

Because the connector is registered as authless. Anthropic's directory snapshot records is_authless true for this entry while also recording permissions as Read and write. An open issue on Anthropic's connector tracker reports that Claude's start-auth endpoint short-circuits, reaching no Intuit domain, after which every tool call fails authentication.

Do I need a QuickBooks subscription to use the connector?

No, but without one it reads nothing. Intuit documents a no-subscription mode where you upload CSVs, PDFs or images, or paste transactions into the chat, and Claude produces a profit and loss statement, cash flow summary or benchmark from that alone. Intuit recommends at least ten transactions covering a one-month period.

Is the QuickBooks connector for Claude available outside the United States?

Not yet. Intuit's help article opens with a note stating the QuickBooks connector for Claude is currently available to US customers only, and that Intuit is working to bring it to other regions. Intuit gives no date. The article was last updated 2026-08-05 according to its own byline.

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