Accounting
QuickBooks MCP connector
The QuickBooks connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client read and record bills, bill payments, credit memos, items, vendors, accounts, and tax rates in QuickBooks, with each person acting under their own QuickBooks access and every change logged.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect QuickBooks to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect QuickBooks once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick QuickBooks.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Supply your own QuickBooks app, then approve. QuickBooks needs an OAuth app you register yourself, so bring its client ID and secret. One person does this once for the organization.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect QuickBooks to Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect QuickBooks to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect QuickBooks to Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect QuickBooks to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with QuickBooks through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Accounts payable
Log a vendor bill as it arrives
Read out the vendor, amount, due date, and what it was for, and the bill is created in QuickBooks against the right account and class without anyone retyping it.
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Accounts payable
Record the payment once a bill is settled
When a bill has been paid from the bank, ask for the payment to be recorded against it in QuickBooks so the bill stops showing as open.
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Finance
See what is owed to vendors this week
Ask which QuickBooks bills fall due in the next seven days, grouped by vendor, and get a plain list you can take into the cash planning meeting.
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Bookkeeping
Issue a credit memo for a return
When a customer sends goods back, describe the return and a credit memo is created in QuickBooks with the right items and amounts.
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Operations
Add a new product or service item
Give the name, price, and income account, and the item is created in QuickBooks so it can be used on bills and memos straight away.
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Bookkeeping
Look up the right account, class, or tax rate
Ask which expense account a purchase belongs to, what a class is used for, or what the current tax rate is, and get the answer from the live QuickBooks company file.
Try asking
- “Which QuickBooks bills are unpaid past their due date?”
- “Summarize this month's QuickBooks credit memos by customer.”
- “List QuickBooks bill payments over 10,000 this quarter.”
AI tools
QuickBooks tools for your AI agents
132 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect QuickBooks, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting QuickBooks gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your QuickBooks account.
The agent
Ask about bills, get answers from QuickBooks.
Plain language questions run against live QuickBooks invoices, bills and accounts.
- bills
- credit memos
- refund receipts
- accounts
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which QuickBooks bills are unpaid past their due date?
Summarize this month's QuickBooks credit memos by customer.
List QuickBooks bill payments over 10,000 this quarter.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach QuickBooks.
One governed MCP endpoint, no SDK to build and no shared API key.
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Tool catalog
132 QuickBooks tools are ready to call.
Accounts, bills, credit memos, refund receipts and reports, with no custom code.
- List all QuickBooks accounts
- Get single QuickBooks account by ID
- Create a QuickBooks account
- List all QuickBooks bills
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own QuickBooks toolbox.
Curate one toolbox per team so Payables and Sales see different QuickBooks tools.
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Controllership
- Customer support
Shared connections
Share a QuickBooks connection, never the login.
See who connected each account and how many teams and members use it.
- Payables
- Receivables
- Controller
- Support refunds
Audit log
Every QuickBooks call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each QuickBooks request.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule fires and QuickBooks work finishes.
Bills are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved, then posted to QuickBooks.
QuickBooks digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch bills
QuickBooks
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
QuickBooks
Queued
Collections and dashboards
QuickBooks numbers arrive before anyone asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
QuickBooks health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the bills collection
Bills
1,284 ↓ 12%
Credit memos
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Bills created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Payables 34%
Receivables 27%
Controller 21%
Support refunds 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect QuickBooks to Claude?
Connect QuickBooks in Elaichi first, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. QuickBooks connects over OAuth, but it needs an OAuth application that your company registers inside QuickBooks itself, so one person brings a client ID and secret across once when setting up the connection. After that, everyone signs in to QuickBooks with their own Intuit login and nobody else touches the client ID or secret.
Does QuickBooks work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once QuickBooks is connected in Elaichi, the same address, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect QuickBooks once and use it from whichever client you are in.
What can an AI agent actually do with my QuickBooks data?
Through Elaichi, an AI agent can look up and create bills, record bill payments, create credit memos, add items, and read your QuickBooks vendors, accounts, classes, tax rates, and the list of available reports. It cannot delete anything in QuickBooks through this connector. QuickBooks has a large set of actions, so short, concrete asks like "create a bill for Acme for 1,200 due Friday" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting QuickBooks give the AI access to my whole company file?
No. Every request runs as the person who signed in to QuickBooks, so the AI sees only the bills, vendors, accounts, and reports that person can already see in QuickBooks. Elaichi can narrow that further by team or by action, and it can never grant anything QuickBooks itself has not already given that person.
Can I stop an agent from changing things in QuickBooks?
Yes. In Elaichi, restrictions on QuickBooks work per action, so you can allow reading bills and vendors while blocking the creation of bills, bill payments, or credit memos. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor at all, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a QuickBooks connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to QuickBooks through every AI client at once. A shared QuickBooks connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect QuickBooks in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client in one step.
Put QuickBooks in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.