Connect your app to QuickBooks

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.

Common use cases and example apps

Example app	Example prompt	Description
Finance dashboard	Use QuickBooks and build a dashboard that shows revenue, open invoices, overdue balances, and recent payments.	Track key accounting metrics from QuickBooks in one place. The app reads invoices, payments, customers, and account data, then displays finance trends for internal teams.
Invoice tracker	Use QuickBooks and build an invoice tracker that lists sent, paid, and overdue invoices by customer.	Give teams a focused view of invoice status. The app queries QuickBooks invoices, groups them by status, and highlights accounts that need follow-up.
Customer billing portal	Use QuickBooks and build a customer billing portal where staff can search customers and view their invoice history.	Make QuickBooks customer and invoice data easier to access. The app lets authorized team members search customer records, review balances, and inspect invoice details.
Expense review app	Use QuickBooks and build an app that shows recent bills and purchases, grouped by vendor and account category.	Organize expenses from QuickBooks for review. The app reads bills, purchases, vendors, and accounts, then helps finance teams spot unusual spending.
Cash flow report	Use QuickBooks and build a cash flow report that compares paid invoices, open invoices, and upcoming bills.	Summarize cash flow signals from QuickBooks. The app combines receivables and payables data to show what has been collected and what is due.
Record creation workflow	Use QuickBooks and build a form that creates a new customer and draft invoice from an approved request.	Turn internal approvals into QuickBooks records. The app collects request details, validates required fields, and creates or updates QuickBooks records through the connected company.

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.

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.

Set up your QuickBooks connection

Open QuickBooks in Connectors

Go to Connectors → App connectors and select QuickBooks.

Add a connection

Click Add connection.

Name the connection

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to unlink projects from a connection

Editors and above can remove specific projects from a connection without deleting the connection entirely. The connection will remain available for other projects. To unlink projects:

Open Connectors

Open Connectors and select .

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to manage.

Select projects

Under Linked projects, check the projects you want to unlink.

Confirm

Click Unlink projects and confirm.

When unlinked, those projects will no longer have access to through this connection. If a project needs again, you can link it to any available connection.

How to delete a connection

Workspace admins and owners can delete connections. Other members can delete a connection if they created it, or if they have been explicitly granted access to it.

Deleting a connection is permanent and cannot be undone. It will remove the credentials from all linked projects, and any apps using this connection will stop working until a new connection is added.

Before deleting, review the Linked projects section to see which projects are currently using the connection. To delete a connection:

Open Connectors

Open Connectors and select .

Open the connection

Open the connection you want to remove.

Review linked projects

Review the Linked projects section.

Delete

Under Delete this connection, click Delete and confirm.

Getting started

Lovable workspace

Lovable account

Ways to use Lovable

Reference

Common use cases and example apps

How to connect QuickBooks

Prerequisites

Set up your QuickBooks connection

Limitations

How to unlink projects from a connection

How to delete a connection

​Common use cases and example apps

​How to connect QuickBooks

​Prerequisites

​Set up your QuickBooks connection

​Limitations

​How to unlink projects from a connection

​How to delete a connection

Common use cases and example apps

How to connect QuickBooks

Prerequisites

Set up your QuickBooks connection

Limitations

How to unlink projects from a connection

How to delete a connection