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QuickBooks is an accounting platform for managing company finances, customers, invoices, bills, payments, and bookkeeping workflows. The QuickBooks connector lets your Lovable app work with QuickBooks Online accounting data through a connected Intuit account. With QuickBooks, your app can:
  • Query customers, vendors, items, accounts, and company information
  • Read invoices, bills, payments, purchases, and sales receipts
  • Create accounting dashboards and operational finance reports
  • Build workflows that create or update QuickBooks records
The QuickBooks connector connects to a single QuickBooks Online company through OAuth. It is a good fit for finance dashboards, invoice workflows, customer account tools, payment tracking, and internal operations apps that need accounting data from QuickBooks Online.

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Common use cases and example apps

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How to connect QuickBooks

Workspace admins and owners can connect QuickBooks. You can create multiple QuickBooks connections using different Intuit accounts or companies, which is useful for separating sandbox and production environments or managing multiple businesses. When the connection is created, QuickBooks becomes available across all projects in the workspace. Anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to it.

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Prerequisites

Before connecting QuickBooks, make sure you have:
  • A QuickBooks Online company you want to connect
  • Access to the Intuit account that can authorize API access for that company
  • Lovable workspace owner or admin role
All API requests made through this connector use your connected QuickBooks Online company and Intuit API access. Billing, quota, and API limits are handled by Intuit, not Lovable.

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Set up your QuickBooks connection

1

Open QuickBooks in Connectors

Go to Connectors and select QuickBooks.
2

Add a connection

Click Add connection.
3

Name the connection

In Display name, name the connection (for example, QuickBooks Prod). This name is only used inside Lovable to identify the connection.
4

Choose the environment

In Environment, select Production for a live QuickBooks Online company or Sandbox for an Intuit developer sandbox company.Leave Company ID blank unless you already know the QuickBooks company ID. Intuit usually returns the company ID during authorization.
5

Choose who can access this connection

Under Who can access this connection, decide who in your workspace can use the connection:
  • Only you (default): only the person creating the connection can use it and its associated data.
  • Invite specific people: only you and explicitly added workspace members can use the connection and its associated data.
  • Invite entire workspace: click Invite entire workspace to make the connection available to everyone in your Lovable workspace.
See Connection-level access for more information.
6

Connect to QuickBooks and authorize

Click Connect. The QuickBooks authorization window opens, so make sure your browser doesn’t block pop-ups. If it does, Lovable redirects you instead.Sign in to Intuit if prompted, choose the QuickBooks company to connect, review the requested permissions, and approve access.You’ll be redirected back to Lovable with a confirmation.
When connected, anyone building in a project can ask Lovable in chat to link their project to QuickBooks (based on configured connection-level access). Your Lovable apps can then query and manage QuickBooks Online accounting data through the connected company.

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Limitations

The QuickBooks connector cannot:
  • Connect to QuickBooks Desktop. It supports QuickBooks Online through Intuit’s Accounting API.
  • Access a QuickBooks company that the connected Intuit account cannot authorize.
  • Receive QuickBooks webhooks or real-time event notifications.
  • Bypass Intuit API quotas, rate limits, or account restrictions.
  • Support per-end-user QuickBooks login. Each connection represents a single QuickBooks company shared across all projects linked to it.
If QuickBooks authorization is revoked from the Intuit side, you’ll need to reconnect the integration in Lovable before API calls can succeed again.

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Manage your connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select , then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.