QuickBooks Solopreneur 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

QuickBooks Solopreneur

4.0

(118)

FrontRunner 2026

Pricing

Starting at $20.00 per month

About QuickBooks Solopreneur

QuickBooks Solopreneur is a cloud-based accounting solution that helps small and midsize businesses across various industries to automate expense categorization to help that helps them to track expenses for travel, assets, advertising and insurance among others.

QuickBooks Solopreneur 'TurboTax' feature enables professionals to file taxes online and manage record entries by exporting Schedule C to the solution. In addition, the solution automates the calculation of quarterly taxes and updates users with tax estimates for the year.

QuickBooks Solopreneur enables professionals to connect with their bank accounts for tracking and monitoring. Users can also segment business and personal expenditures and share expense summaries.

QuickBooks Solopreneur can be accessed via various mobile devices remotely. It uses industry-standard encryption technologies to secure communications between the stakeholders. Services are offered on a monthly subscription basis that includes support via phone.

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QuickBooks Solopreneur Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $20.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$20.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Track profitability
Separate business & personal expenses
Customize estimates & invoices
Accept payments
Get expert tax prep help
Mobile app
Automatic mileage tracking
Set & track growth goals
Track sales & sales tax
Open a business bank account

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QuickBooks Solopreneur Features

Popular features found in Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Fund Accounting
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Currency
Payroll Management
Project Accounting
Purchase Order Management
Tax Management
More features of QuickBooks Solopreneur
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Bank Reconciliation
Encryption
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
For Small Businesses
General Ledger
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Quotes/Estimates
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reminders

QuickBooks Solopreneur User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

47%

27%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

3.8

Customer support

3.4

Functionality

3.8

Justin L.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Good for the Money, QB still lacks features...

I think QB is really positive overall. The simple truth is that an accountant knows way more than I do. I did my taxes all wrong for 2+ years using QB. I probably could have gotten a lot more refund had I had more tax knowledge. Taxes are deep. That's why people specialize in it. I am a salesman and entrepreneur. I HATE doing taxes. After my carpal tunnel episode, (I was crunching and cursing QB and the IRS,) I realized how to actually do my taxes the right way. The best thing I can say is that QB gives a good overall picture and the reporting is good as long as you tag everything correctly. But that doesn't work easily if you have thousands of micro-transactions, such as myself. So I had to go through every line item and tag it for the appropriate enterprise. I have finally figured out how to do taxes... Use a program like QB and then deliver the reporting to a good accountant who can really find the tax breaks. They simply can't do it over the phone like an in person accountant. And I had to find a good one who was recommended to me by a friend. Not any accountant will do. DO your research on taxes!!! You can get a good refund if you have a good accountant and also do the prep work which QB is capable of but only for one company at a time. Tagging things one by one is terrible!!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the account integrations, however, I could not get my Home Depot credit card to connect, so that was disappointing. I also thought the general ease of use was good. It did give me a good picture of my small business and that helped me with running my business better. I also really liked the reporting. The Profit and Loss statements were the most important report that I generated because I would use that to deliver it to my accountant and then do my taxes from there. QuickBooks can really only take you so far. Which is good. I would generally recommend it to all small business owners, like myself. I am not an accountant and truly suck at accounting. So I decided to give it a shot, and then realized that even with super detailed entry, I still needed a professional accountant to get the extra tax breaks that automation simply could not perform. Yes, I know they offer further services, like a live professional, but that just didn't work for me. I tried it one year and then compared it to a year when I hired an accountant and provided the reports and was able to get more refund. So overall, it is a good beginners tool.

Cons:

I hated the fact that it asked me every time there was a new entry if I wanted to make a rule for that entry. I wanted QB to be fast as possible because I loathe accounting. I need to focus on selling my items. However, I understand how important accounting is, thus why I put such a focus on it in my business. I also hated the fact that I could not batch "Tag" items. For example, I actually have 3 companies and did my accounting ALL wrong... I had to go back and do it all over. I realized that I needed to "Tag" and "categorize" properly in order to separate the companies transactions so I could get accurate reporting. Basically, I had to manually tag each and every transaction, which SUCKED!! I have an e-commerce business with thousands of line items and I had to do it one by one, which ultimately made me want to cancel QB. Be it as it may, it was my fault. I did not do it properly from the start. I didn't realize how to separate different companies with one QB account. I tried to have 3 separate accounts but that was too costly and thought I could easily do it with one swift click of a button, and BOY was I wrong. I probably developed carpal tunnel from this years taxes. And then decided to close down 2 of the 3 companies because I realized how to actually run my entire enterprise better. I still have one LLC. I closed another LLC and an S Corp as a result of better understanding my taxes and how to be a better small business owner.

Reasons for choosing QuickBooks Solopreneur

Financially speaking, it was the best option for me and gave me the most options. I do believe I made the right choice in using QB. It allowed me to get a better picture of my overall business ventures and for that I am grateful!

Natalie M.

Verified reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Excellent for beginners

Excellent. I could build confidence and learn how to keep my books.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, to learn and set up. I could learn the basics of freelance book-keeping

Cons:

not sure. It served all my needs at the time.

Reasons for choosing QuickBooks Solopreneur

Price-features were the right for me at the time

Tina Marie G.

Verified reviewer

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

QuickBooks Self-Employed is a star!

I love they have so many options and ways of showing users to add transactions.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Extremely easy to use. As all of intuit's products, Self-Employed guides you through the uses. Self-Employed is so accurate and easy to use.

Cons:

I don't have a con about this one. It's saved me so much on my taxes. I'm blown away on how intuitiveness.

Amy H.

Verified reviewer

Management Consulting

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Sticken with Quicken

My overall experience with QuickBooks self employed is I am completely satisfied and enjoy the use of the software currently as my bookkeeper. It has been an asset to my small business

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The thing I am most fond of with QuickBooks Self-Employed version is the ease of use. The software offers a user the functions that cover all necessary withholding categories that are required on a state and federal level. It inputs the correct taxes, insurance, fees etc. required by law within your area. And if you are not within regulation it notifies you and offers the user direction into making sure you are financially in accord to the law.

Cons:

What I like least about the software is the exporting IOC information can get tricky sometimes depending on how it will be opened by the receiving device.

Reasons for choosing QuickBooks Solopreneur

It has the most functions in it that completely cover my needs

Reasons for switching to QuickBooks Solopreneur

Zoho just was not working for me. It is a little less detailed in expense reports and categories to expense, just not as many features as this

David B.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

One of the best

It’s exactly what I was looking for and I have never experienced any problems with it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Excellent software as it’s one of the best things I have ever used

Cons:

Nothing as this app is top notch and I have no complaints

Abby B.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

No Support, Lots of changes, glitches, almost zero Documentation

There's just no accountability, they're too big and they have too many products. They don't care about their customers, they don't care about "how bad it would look" when they make terrible changes that cause damage to small businesses. They're too big to hurt, too big to care.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Mileage tracking is great and easy to use. Can connect bank accounts and automatically categorize expenses to certain businesses. You can invoice clients and have them click to pay online via ACH Debit without any fees.

Cons:

Things regularly change and then don't work right. There's no announcement about these changes, nor documentation. Functionality gets removed but options will still be there. There's very little documentation. You can request a call from Support, but the call will require you first training someone on what your specific QB product does/doesn't do (because there are 100 different versions) and then once you train their callcenter person, they'll put you on hold for a while and then give you a really strange answer and blow you off.

Reasons for switching to QuickBooks Solopreneur

So I could have clients pay invoices online via check, ACH Debit, without any fees or credit card %. And for mileage tracking

Nick H.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

Solid product but lacking some features

QuickBooks Self-Employed has been the most cost-effective tool for tracking expenses that we have found so far for the Sole-Proprietor's small business. While it has its flaws, it is still better than the alternative...having no tools to help record business expenses. Still keeping our eyes open for other options. Thinking about moving up to QuickBooks Online if our profits go up and can justify the price tag.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

This product was built for the person running a sole propriety. It is very easy to track business expenses. It takes less than a minute to enter an expense and upload a receipt. The mobile app can also track your mileage put on a vehicle for business purposes all year long. Its integration with TurboTax makes it very easy to file taxes as it pulls in all the business expenses and categorizes them for you. You can create and send basic invoices.

Cons:

As far as I've been able to tell it has no way of tracking or entering Income unless a customer pays through the QuickBooks portal. Checks or other forms of payment (outside of QuickBooks) will not show up as income. Therefore, the running "Profit/Loss" number at the top of the screen is pretty inaccurate. You can only clear this up when filing taxes through Turbo Tax and entering W2s, other tax documents, and manually enter income. This feature may work just fine if you connect a bank account. We do not. So, it might pull in deposits automatically for you to mark as business or personal transactions.

Reasons for choosing QuickBooks Solopreneur

Price. Our business is so small right now that the alternative cost much more due to including features we cannot yet take advantage of. However, it does include all the features we wish Self-Employed had.

Vendor Response

We definitely appreciate your business, and your feedback regarding QuickBooks Self-Employed. To make sure you're getting full use out of the app we'd like to give you the link on how to enter your income or expense transactions without having to connect your bank account (https://tinyurl.com/2p962kfw) Wishing you continued success -Kristina, The QuickBooks Team

Replied January 2022

Alia G.

Verified reviewer

Construction

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Pretty Soild