13 Best QuickBooks Add-Ons and Apps for Business Efficiency

Tipalti integrates with QuickBooks to extend its accounts payable capabilities with invoice automation, supplier onboarding, tax compliance, global payments, and reconciliation. Tipalti AP automation helps streamline accounts payable and invoice processing. Its AI-driven digitization reduces time-consuming manual data entry, while enabling payments to suppliers with their preferred payment method in 200+ countries using 120 currencies.

Tipalti provides self-service supplier onboarding, supplier validation, and simplified tax compliance, using 26,000+ payment rules to detect errors during invoice processing. Its optional expense management and reimbursement software, Expenses, enables mobile expense claim creation and approvals.

Tipalti has a prebuilt API integration with QuickBooks Online and is a QBO Verified Partner. Tipalti AP automation can also integrate with QuickBooks Desktop.

An easy way to get your data into QuickBooks Online is through Dext (formerly Receipt Bank).  Dext uses AI-driven data capture for receipts and invoices and enables companies to pay employee expenses and supplier invoices. It connects accountants, bookkeepers, and small businesses. With this app, you can significantly reduce manual data entry.

Excel and .csv files are two of the most common types of files you need outside of QuickBooks. Transaction Pro from Rightworks allows you to conveniently transfer data across all three channels while maintaining a carefully validated record, ensuring the information is error-free. It’s as simple as dropping the import file into the app and mapping the destination fields. It’s quick to integrate.

EBizCharge is an add-on to the native QuickBooks payments module that can significantly reduce your business costs. You can run credit, debit, and eCheck transactions directly in QuickBooks. Additionally, the EBizCharge payment plugin comes standard with all the payment features you’d find with QuickBooks payments, such as;

• Email Payment Links
• Customer Payment Portal
• Mobile Payments
• Recurring Billing
• PCI-compliant
• And many more

EBizCharge provides unlimited customer support and can help manage chargebacks when they occur.

The intuitive and adaptive Quotient platform is built for online quoting and proposals. Use work orders to create, manage, and send quotes in a simple process, and manage customer information. Once accepted, the quotes will appear instantly as invoices in the system.

Insightly CRM connects customer relationship management and project management workflows with QuickBooks, helping businesses keep sales and accounting data aligned.

They offer a useful mix of customer-centric features and project management functions. The program allows you to track:

• Sales
• Opportunities
• Invoices and payments (through QuickBooks integration)
• Projects and tasks
• Customer communications

This data enables a business to create an in-depth user profile to nurture consumer relationships.

Instead, your business can choose to integrate Salesforce with QuickBooks as its CRM. 

This app offers a complete solution for inventory management and order alignment. Save time by tracking work-in-progress throughout the entire lifecycle. Keep an eye on serial numbers, lots, and batches by syncing them to QuickBooks Online. If you have multiple locations, the SOS Inventory app allows you to:

• Receive into
• Ship out of
• Transfer stock
• Perform job costing

You can also set unique customer pricing with vendor-specific costs. This includes the ability to add custom fields that track singular data sets and parameters. This means the program can handle workflows for small and medium-sized businesses that are not too complex.

This app is tailor-made to function alongside QuickBooks. Fishbowl Inventory specializes in distinct products for warehouse management (Fishbowl Inventory) and manufacturing companies (Fishbowl Manufacturing), with useful asset tracking features. If your business centers on warehouse or manufacturing, Fishbowl may offer a solution to consider.

This is an integration for managing employees. QuickBooks Time gives you powerful access to features like:

• GPS tracking
• Mobile management
• Scheduling software
• Customizable alerts
• Overtime calculation
• Real-time time tracker

QuickBooks Time’s functionality includes time clocks with facial recognition to help eliminate opportunities for time theft. Time tracking and scheduling are combined features for optimized management. The brand offers free, unlimited support via phone, chat, or email. 

QuickBooks Time is included in QuickBooks Online Payroll Premium and Elite plans for your QuickBooks account. 

Most business accounting professionals are familiar with the e-commerce platform Shopify, which lets you create and manage your online store and sync with back-office functions. Shopify’s Orders area creates and manages sales orders. You can integrate Shopify with QuickBooks to reduce manual data entry.

An effective QuickBooks Online Intuit app for e-payment is BILL. It ensures secure electronic billing, accepting payments of many types, including:

• ACH
• Credit card
• Debit card

With QuickBooks integration, any billing update can be automated. 

Bill & Pay is a QuickBooks add-on for multiple finance tasks, like:

• Payment collection
• Invoicing
• Deposits
• Recordkeeping
• Accepts various payments (ACH, credit card, PayPal)

This tool may be used by an accountant who needs to handle large payments and maintain cash flow.

Calculating the sales tax and VAT on items can be challenging. Especially when you are running an e-commerce or have contractors in field service. Avalara AvaTax uses a secure connection to automate tax calculations, including sales tax and VAT. 

Once invoice details are entered at the point of sale, it adds sales tax to invoices in real-time, rather than creating a standalone QuickBooks file with validated customer data and applicable tax rates. Avalara automatically adds tax as the last line item on the invoice before the total.