Is this the official Intuit QuickBooks MCP?

Yes. It is published by Intuit at github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server under Apache-2.0. This listing previously pointed at a third-party server and stated that Intuit shipped none — that was wrong; the first-party repository has existed since October 2025.

Can it create and send invoices?

Yes. Invoice is one of the 29 entity types with full create, read, update, delete, and search coverage, so an agent can raise an invoice, amend it, and record a payment against it.

By cloning and building. Intuit has not published the package to npm — the repository declares @qboapi/qbo-mcp-server, which does not resolve on the public registry — so you run git clone, npm install, npm run build, and point your client at the built dist/index.js.

Can I stop an agent writing to my ledger?

Yes, and you should for reporting workflows. Setting QUICKBOOKS_DISABLE_WRITE, QUICKBOOKS_DISABLE_UPDATE, or QUICKBOOKS_DISABLE_DELETE to true stops those tool families being registered at all, so the agent never sees them rather than being asked not to use them.

QuickBooks Online

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Creator: Top MCPs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Official

Run QuickBooks Online accounting from an agent — invoices, bills, payments, and financial reports.

Score 75(?)IntuitApache-2.0 379Verified Sep 1, 2026Top MCPs for Commerce & Payments →

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Quick answer

What it does

Exposes 145 tools covering 29 QuickBooks Online entity types with full create/read/update/delete/search, plus 11 financial reports — balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow, and others. Runs locally as a stdio subprocess against one QuickBooks company.

Best for

Creating and sending invoices from chat
Reading QuickBooks financial reports
Recording payments against invoices
Read-only bookkeeping agents (write tools disabled)

Not for

Zero-config setups — the OAuth app registration is mandatory
Unattended writes to a production ledger without approval

Source: top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks — verified Sep 2026

Setup recipe

Pick your client, then follow the three steps.

Install

claude_desktop_config.jsonjson

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "git",
      "args": [
        "clone",
        "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "cd",
        "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "install",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "run",
        "build"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Paste under mcpServers. Fully quit and reopen Claude after editing.

CLI or .mcp.jsonshell

# export QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
# export QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
# export QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token
# export QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID=your_company_realm_id
# export QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT=sandbox
claude mcp add quickbooks -- git clone https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server && cd quickbooks-online-mcp-server && npm install && npm run build

Run from your repo. Commit .mcp.json to share with your team.

.cursor/mcp.jsonjson

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "git",
      "args": [
        "clone",
        "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "cd",
        "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "install",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "run",
        "build"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Global path: ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Reload window after editing.

.vscode/mcp.jsonjsonc

{
  "servers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "git",
      "args": [
        "clone",
        "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "cd",
        "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "install",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "run",
        "build"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code uses the "servers" key (not "mcpServers").

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonjson

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "git",
      "args": [
        "clone",
        "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "cd",
        "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "install",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "run",
        "build"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Open via Cascade → hammer icon → Configure.

cline_mcp_settings.jsonjson

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "git",
      "args": [
        "clone",
        "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "cd",
        "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "install",
        "&&",
        "npm",
        "run",
        "build"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Open via the Cline sidebar → MCP Servers → Edit.

~/.continue/config.jsonjson

{
  "experimental": {
    "modelContextProtocolServers": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio",
          "command": "git",
          "args": [
            "clone",
            "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
            "&&",
            "cd",
            "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
            "&&",
            "npm",
            "install",
            "&&",
            "npm",
            "run",
            "build"
          ],
          "env": {
            "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
            "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
            "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
            "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
            "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Continue uses modelContextProtocolServers with a transport block.

~/.codex/config.tomlshell

# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.quickbooks]
command = "git"
args = [
  "clone",
  "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
  "&&",
  "cd",
  "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
  "&&",
  "npm",
  "install",
  "&&",
  "npm",
  "run",
  "build",
]
env = { QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID = "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}", QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET = "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}", QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN = "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}", QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID = "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}", QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT = "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}" }

Codex uses TOML. Each server is a [mcp_servers.<name>] subtable.

~/.config/zed/settings.jsonjsonc

{
  "context_servers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": {
        "path": "git",
        "args": [
          "clone",
          "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
          "&&",
          "cd",
          "quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
          "&&",
          "npm",
          "install",
          "&&",
          "npm",
          "run",
          "build"
        ]
      },
      "env": {
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID": "${QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID}",
        "QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT": "${QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Zed calls them "context_servers". Settings live-reload on save.

ChatGPT → Apps directorynone

QuickBooks Online doesn't ship a hosted HTTPS endpoint today. ChatGPT supports remote MCP servers only — to use this server in ChatGPT you'll need to deploy it to a public HTTPS URL first (e.g. via Cloudflare Workers or Vercel) or wait for an official remote build.

2
Set required secrets
Set QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID, QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET, QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN, QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID, QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT in your shell environment before launching your MCP client.
3
Try a minimum working prompt
Minimum working prompt pending verification. Try any prompt from the MCP’s README once installed.

Tools & permissions

Tools list pending verification. The server exposes tools over MCP; we haven’t yet parsed its capability manifest into this page. Check the GitHub repo for the authoritative list.

Security & scope

Access scope: Network
Sandbox: Runs locally over stdio and authenticates to one QuickBooks company with an OAuth 2.0 refresh token, client ID/secret, and realm ID. Access scope matches the OAuth grant on the Intuit app.
Gotchas: Every install needs an app registered on the Intuit Developer Portal — Intuit issues no per-user API keys, so there is no way to skip the OAuth handshake even to read your own company.
Sandbox accepts a localhost redirect URI; production rejects it and requires a public HTTPS callback for the initial authorization.
The refresh token rotates and lapses after roughly 100 days of disuse, at which point the browser handshake has to be repeated.
Prefer QUICKBOOKS_DISABLE_WRITE/UPDATE/DELETE over trusting prompt instructions when an agent only needs to read the ledger.

Agent prompt pack

— copy into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT.

Paste into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT. Edit the [brackets] before sending.

Recommend the best MCP servers for [task: e.g. commerce & payments work] in [client: Claude].

Constraints:
- Prefer tools that are [official | open-source | read-only] — pick what matters for my use case.
- Exclude MCPs that require [e.g. a paid plan, OAuth-only flows, remote-only transport].
- Return at most 3 picks, ranked.

For each pick include:
1. One-sentence rationale.
2. The ready-to-paste install snippet for my client.
3. Any required secrets I need to create before installing.

Cross-check the top-mcps.com listing: https://top-mcps.com/top-mcps-for-commerce-payments

Compare QuickBooks Online against a real alternative. Swap the second MCP in [brackets] if you want a different match.

Compare QuickBooks Online MCP vs [Xero MCP] for the following job: [describe the job, e.g. "let an agent create GitHub issues on bug triage"].

Judge them on:
- Setup time and complexity (what a new user hits first).
- Auth model (none / API key / OAuth 2.1) and credential risk.
- Transport (stdio / Streamable HTTP / SSE) and where the server runs.
- Required secrets and the blast radius if they leak.
- Operational risk in an unattended agent loop.
- Which one is "good enough" for a weekend prototype vs. production.

End with one sentence: which should I pick for my scenario, which is: [my scenario].

References:
- https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks
- top-mcps.com listing for Xero

Asks the agent to install and verify. Works inside Claude Code, Cursor Agent, Codex CLI.

Install the QuickBooks Online MCP server for my [client: Claude] at the default config path for that client.

Use the exact install snippet published at https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks (fetch https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks.json for the canonical server.json if you can read URLs).

Before finishing:
1. Create the required secrets (QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_ID, QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRET, QUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKEN, QUICKBOOKS_REALM_ID, QUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT) and put them in the appropriate env block — do not hard-code them.
2. Restart or reload the client so it picks up the new server.
3. Verify the server is connected (green / running state) and at least one tool is listed.
4. If anything fails, read the client's MCP logs and report the exact error — do not silently retry.

Confirm when done and list the tools the server now exposes.

Frequently asked questions

What changed

— 2 updates tracked.

Sep 1, 2026
Refreshed install snippets and fact sheet; verified for 2026.
May 1, 2025
Initial directory listing.

At a glance

Maintainer: Intuit
Transport: stdio
Auth model: OAuth 2.1
Required secrets: QUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_IDQUICKBOOKS_CLIENT_SECRETQUICKBOOKS_REFRESH_TOKENQUICKBOOKS_REALM_IDQUICKBOOKS_ENVIRONMENT
Supported clients: ChatGPT
Claude Desktop
Claude Code
Cursor
VS Code
Windsurf
Cline
Continue
Zed
Codex CLI
License: Apache-2.0
Language: TypeScript
Latest version: —
Last verified: Sep 1, 2026

GitHub repo

Rank badge

Maintainer of QuickBooks Online? Embed the live badge — it re-renders with the current rank and score on every catalog refresh.

[![Ranked #4 in Commerce & Payments on Top-MCPs](https://top-mcps.com/badge/quickbooks.svg)](https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks)

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Quick answer

What it does

Best for

Not for

Setup recipe

Install

Set required secrets

Try a minimum working prompt

Tools & permissions

Security & scope

Agent prompt pack

Full details

Frequently asked questions

Is this the official Intuit QuickBooks MCP?

Can it create and send invoices?

How is it installed?

Can I stop an agent writing to my ledger?

What changed

More Commerce & Payments MCPs

Stripe

Xero

Shopify

Compared with QuickBooks Online