# QuickBooks Online

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

[Canonical HTML page](https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks) · [server.json](https://top-mcps.com/mcp/quickbooks.json) · [methodology](https://top-mcps.com/about/methodology)

## Install

### Claude Desktop — `claude_desktop_config.json`

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "install",
        "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Claude Code — `CLI or .mcp.json`

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

```shell
# export QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_qbo_oauth_access_token
# export QBO_REALM_ID=your_company_realm_id
claude mcp add quickbooks -- npm install @wyre-technology/qbo-mcp
```

### Cursor — `.cursor/mcp.json`

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "install",
        "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code — `.vscode/mcp.json`

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

```jsonc
{
  "servers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "install",
        "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Windsurf — `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`

Open via Cascade → hammer icon → Configure.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "install",
        "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Cline — `cline_mcp_settings.json`

Open via the Cline sidebar → MCP Servers → Edit.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "install",
        "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Continue — `~/.continue/config.json`

Continue uses modelContextProtocolServers with a transport block.

```json
{
  "experimental": {
    "modelContextProtocolServers": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio",
          "command": "npm",
          "args": [
            "install",
            "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
          ],
          "env": {
            "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
            "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

### Codex CLI — `~/.codex/config.toml`

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

```shell
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.quickbooks]
command = "npm"
args = [
  "install",
  "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp",
]
env = { QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN = "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}", QBO_REALM_ID = "${QBO_REALM_ID}" }
```

### Zed — `~/.config/zed/settings.json`

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

```jsonc
{
  "context_servers": {
    "quickbooks": {
      "command": {
        "path": "npm",
        "args": [
          "install",
          "@wyre-technology/qbo-mcp"
        ]
      },
      "env": {
        "QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN}",
        "QBO_REALM_ID": "${QBO_REALM_ID}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### ChatGPT — `ChatGPT → Apps directory`

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.

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## At a glance

- **Maintainer:** Wyre Technology
- **Transport:** stdio
- **Auth model:** OAuth 2.1
- **Required secrets:** QBO_ACCESS_TOKEN, QBO_REALM_ID
- **Supported clients:** Claude, Cursor, Any MCP-compatible client, QuickBooks Online accounts
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Latest version:** 1.5.1
- **Last verified:** 2026-07-15
- **GitHub stars:** 2 (fetched 2026-07-17T12:42:33.398Z)
- **Score:** 60/100 (rubric 2026-04 — see https://top-mcps.com/about/methodology)
- **Source:** https://github.com/wyre-technology/qbo-mcp

## Security & scope

- **Access scope:** network
- **Sandbox:** Authenticates with a QuickBooks Online OAuth access token and a company realm ID. Access scope matches the OAuth grant.
- **Gotchas:**
  - Distributed via GitHub Packages, not public npm — you need NODE_AUTH_TOKEN set to a GitHub token and an .npmrc entry for @wyre-technology before npm install resolves.
  - Not an Intuit-official server. Scope the OAuth token to read-only for reporting workflows, and keep human approval on invoice creation and payment posting.

## Quick answer

**What it does.** Exposes 130+ tools across 22 QuickBooks Online entities plus 10 financial reports: customers, invoices (list/get/create/send), payments, vendors, bills, purchase orders, estimates, journal entries, items, accounts, and reports (profit & loss, balance sheet, cash flow, trial balance, general ledger, aged receivables/payables).

**Best for:**
- Creating and sending invoices from chat
- Reading QuickBooks financial reports
- Recording payments against invoices
- Aged-receivables follow-ups
- Bookkeeping-assistant workflows

**Not for:**
- Teams that require a first-party Intuit-supported integration
- Unattended writes to a production ledger without approval

## Description

The best MCP for QuickBooks Online is the wyre-technology qbo-mcp server — a community-maintained (not Intuit-official) bridge to the QuickBooks Online Accounting API. Create and send invoices, record payments, log bills and expenses, and pull profit-and-loss, balance-sheet, and aged-receivables reports from a prompt.

## Why it matters

QuickBooks Online is the most common small-business ledger. An MCP over it lets an agent draft an invoice, chase an overdue receivable, or answer "what was March revenue" without a human opening the QuickBooks UI.

## Key features

- 130+ tools across 22 QBO entities
- 10 built-in financial reports
- Full invoice lifecycle (create, send, mark paid)
- Apache-2.0 licensed, actively released (v1.5.1, July 2026)
- TypeScript, runs locally over stdio

## FAQ

### Is this the official Intuit QuickBooks MCP?

No. Intuit does not publish a first-party QuickBooks MCP. This is the wyre-technology qbo-mcp server, a third-party open-source (Apache-2.0) implementation over the QuickBooks Online Accounting API. Treat it as community provenance and vet it before granting write access.

### Can it create and send invoices?

Yes. It covers the full invoice lifecycle — create an invoice with line items and a customer, send it by email from QuickBooks, and record a payment against it to mark it paid.

### How is the package distributed?

Via GitHub Packages as @wyre-technology/qbo-mcp, so installation requires a GitHub auth token and an .npmrc that scopes @wyre-technology to npm.pkg.github.com. Budget a few extra minutes for that versus a plain public-npm install.

## Changelog

- **2026-07-15** — Refreshed install snippets and fact sheet; verified for 2026.
- **2025-05-01** — Initial directory listing.