Use Abacus with QuickBooks – Abacus

Use the charts below to see how QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop fields map to Abacus fields, which Abacus features have parity in QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop, and which Account Types are available.

What does this Abacus feature map to in the accounting software?

See the Filters table for which account types we filter out of each mapping option.

Abacus Feature	QuickBooks Online	Quickbooks Desktop
Expense/Team Fields	Class, Customer, Department, or Location if on Accrual only	Class, Customer
Categories Page	Chart of Accounts (see Filters table)	Chart of Accounts (see Filters table)
Debits (Cash Mode)	Bill/Bill Payment	Bill/Bill Payment
Corporate Card Expenses	Expenses *The Accounting Sync page allows you to input your month-end close date so that we can update the date of the corporation card or accrual expenses to the date of the closest open month.	Credit Card Purchase *Abacus can detect what the period close date is, and we will update the transaction date to the first day of the closest open month if the card transaction falls within a closed month.
Reconciliation	Match	N/A
Bank Register (Sync Page)	Bank (see Filters table)	Bank (see Filters table)
Corp Card Type (Sync Page)	Bank/Credit Card	Bank/Credit Card

Feature Parity

Abacus Feature	QuickBooks Online	QuickBooks Desktop
Accrual Accounting (Professional Subscription Only)	Yes	No
Vendor (Corporate card sync)	Yes. Vendor comes from the Quickbooks Online Matching feature Corporate Card: Vendor syncs to the Payee field Reimbursable: Vendor will be in Description	Corporate Card: Vendor can sync to the Memo field, Other Names List, or Vendor List Reimbursable: Vendor will always be Abacus, it will sync to the Vendor list and in the memo field
Billable expenses	Yes	Yes
Map to custom fields	No	No
Split Expenses for corporate cards	Yes	Yes
Attendees	No	No
Close Date	Yes	No
Sync International Mode Expenses	Yes. It can be in Cash or Accrual mode, but it will create a Clearing account	No
Sync Posted Date instead of Transaction Date	No	No

Supported Account Types

Classification	Account Type	Available in Categories		Available in Bank		Available in Corporate Cards
		Online	Desktop	Online	Desktop	Online	Desktop
ASSET	Bank Account			X	X	X	X
	Other Current Asset	X	X
	Fixed Asset	X	X
	Other Asset	X	X
	Accounts Receivable		X
EQUITY	Equity Account	X	X
EXPENSE	Expense Account	X	X
	Other Expense	X	X
	Cost of Goods Sold	X	X
LIABILITY	Accounts Payable	X	X
	Credit Card					X	X
	Long Term Liability
	Other Current Liability	X	X
REVENUE	Income	X	X
REVENUE	Other Income

What does this Abacus feature map to in the accounting software?

Feature Parity

Supported Account Types

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