§ Integrations

QuickBooks Sync: a sync that knows what a remodeling project is.

Every contractor platform claims QuickBooks integration. Most of them deliver a black-box sync that works 90% of the time, fails silently, and leaves your bookkeeper to hunt down discrepancies on Friday afternoon. MY LAURA's sync was designed around the exact failure modes other platforms ignore — visible sync history, manual controls, and compatibility with every QuickBooks Online tier from Simple Start to Advanced.

TWO-WAY FOR SETUP

Pull your items, vendors, and chart of accounts from QBO

Already have items, trade partners, and an expense account mapped to each one in QuickBooks? Pull them into MY LAURA at setup instead of re-keying everything. Map each item to the right account once; every invoice, PO, and bill MY LAURA pushes back into QBO lands in the correct expense or income bucket automatically.

ALL TIERS

Works on every QBO plan

Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, Advanced. Jobber and others limit to higher tiers. We work on what you have.

VISIBLE LOG

No black box

Every sync event — success or failure — shows up in the sync log with the exact record, timestamp, and error reason.

Why most QuickBooks integrations fail.

We've used every major contractor platform's QuickBooks integration. They all have the same pattern of failures:

  • Silent sync failures — a record doesn't sync, no one notices, the books drift, and three weeks later the bookkeeper is trying to reconcile the difference
  • Duplicate sub-customers — the platform creates a new customer instead of matching an existing one, and QuickBooks fills up with "Martinez Family," "Martinez Family_1," "Martinez Family_1_1"
  • Bookkeeper reconciliation pain — checks get collected on the job site, deposits show up in the bank feed, and nobody knows which invoice a given check was for. MY LAURA records the payment against the invoice the moment it's collected, pushes that to QBO, and the bookkeeper matching bank feeds sees exactly which invoice each deposit applies to. No detective work on Friday afternoon.
  • Tier lock-outs — the integration requires QBO Plus or Advanced, which cost more than they need to for small shops
  • Mapping conflicts — item mappings break when someone edits a SKU and there's no way to fix it without contacting support

We've seen every one of these. MY LAURA's sync was built with all five in mind, from day one.

The visible sync log.

Every sync event shows up in the Sync History log — successes, failures, created records, updated records, skipped records. Each entry shows the exact record type, the timestamp, the operation, and (if it failed) the error reason in plain English. Your bookkeeper can open the log and see exactly what happened and why.

Manual unlink.

Every item in MY LAURA that's linked to a QuickBooks item has an "Unlink from QB" button. If the mapping broke, unlink it and relink it to the right item — no support ticket required. This is the kind of small thing that turns a 2-hour Friday frustration into a 30-second Friday fix.

Tier-aware behavior.

Some QBO tiers don't support class tracking. Some don't support projects. MY LAURA detects your tier and adjusts its sync behavior accordingly — showing you in the settings exactly which features your tier supports and which require an upgrade. If you upgrade your QBO tier later, MY LAURA automatically enables the additional sync features.

integrations / quickbooks / sync-history
SCREENSHOT: qb-sync-history
QuickBooks sync log with success and error rows, per-record visibility

What syncs, and in which direction.

Items (two-way, for setup and ongoing).

Your estimate and invoice line items link to QBO items. During setup, pull your existing QuickBooks item list into MY LAURA with a click — no rebuilding a catalog you already have. Going forward, new items you create in MY LAURA sync to QBO, and every item page in MY LAURA shows you which ones are linked.

Vendors / trade partners (two-way, for setup and ongoing).

Same pattern as items. Pull your existing QBO vendors into MY LAURA during setup and they become your trade partners and suppliers — already linked, ready to attach to POs and appointments. New vendors created in MY LAURA push to QBO.

Chart of accounts (QBO → MY LAURA).

Your QuickBooks chart of accounts syncs into MY LAURA during setup and whenever it changes. Assign the correct expense or income account to each item once, and every invoice line, PO, and bill MY LAURA pushes to QBO lands in the right account automatically — no bookkeeper recategorizing journal entries, no material purchases dropping into "Uncategorized Expenses."

Clients (MY LAURA → QBO).

When you create a client in MY LAURA, a matching QBO customer is created.

Invoices (MY LAURA → QBO).

Every MY LAURA invoice syncs to QBO as a QuickBooks invoice with the same line items, customer, and total. Partial invoices sync as separate QBO invoices, each linked back to the source estimate in MY LAURA for traceability. Invoices don't flow the other direction — MY LAURA is the place you create them.

Payments (MY LAURA → QBO).

When a client pays via Stripe in the portal, or when you record a check, cash, or ACH against a MY LAURA invoice, the payment pushes to QBO and applies to the matching invoice. Bookkeeper reconciling the bank feed sees exactly which deposit matches which invoice.

Purchase orders and bills (MY LAURA → QBO).

POs sync to QBO as bills or expenses depending on your QBO tier (Plus/Advanced supports bills; Simple Start and Essentials sync as expense). Because the chart of accounts is synced, each bill lands in the expense account you mapped to the item — no manual recategorization. Vendor payments recorded in MY LAURA flow to QBO automatically.

What's included.

  • Two-way sync of items and vendors/trade partners with QBO
  • Chart of accounts pulled from QBO so items map to the right expense/income account
  • Works on every QBO tier: Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, Advanced
  • Visible sync history log with per-record detail
  • Success, error, and skip status for every sync event
  • Manual unlink and manual resync on any linked record
  • Tier-aware feature detection
  • Invoices, payments, clients, and POs push MY LAURA → QBO
  • Purchase order sync as bill (Plus/Advanced) or expense (Simple Start/Essentials)
  • Partial invoicing support with traceability
  • Setup wizard with OAuth connection
  • Error notifications so you know when something fails
§ Try it

See it in the full product.

QuickBooks Sync is included in MY LAURA at $199/month. Unlimited everything. 30-day free trial, no credit card.