It is extremely useful that this software integrates banking, car/fuel usage in the internal structure. The fact that income/expense entires can be custom-automated makes for an easy and intuitive workflow. Also, that filing of taxes become super easy as the software guides one through an intuitive process and does the filing at the end! This software is a money-saver and give true peace of mind.

At this time there are no features that the developers have not thought of!

Excellent. I love this software! It has really made my job easier!!

I love the Transaction processing. I can quickly snap a photo of a receipt and then categorize it. It has helped me keep up to date on all my receipts, income, etc.

I found this software to be very easy to use. I don't have anything to add here that I don't like

Truly hate it

There is nothing to like about INCONSISTENT software that can delay/hurt your business at any random moment.

The software is barely supported. Talking to a live technical agent is virtually impossible. Some minor glitches are constant and go on unfixed, but the major glitches come without warning and can literally bankrupt a small business, costing thousands of dollars in hassle. One glitch last year would deduct the GST amount owing from ONLY the customer's end of the invoice. It's not hard to imagine how quickly that damage adds up. This year I cannot send receipts. All receipts show up in the form of an invoice, an obvious disaster. Today, I can't even send invoices. They simply aren't getting to the clients. So today I'm left having to reach out to every client, troubleshooting. My business needs me to operate so that is an entire day's revenue lost. These are only a few examples, I could write a book on why to avoid this software. All I can do is hope a day will come when I have the time to transfer every single piece of customer data manually into different, more reliable software, because that's literally the only option this piece of trash software has once your already in.

Overall I definitely would recommend this to anyone who is self employed or has a simple one person business. It's definitely geared toward beginners so don't expect all the bells and whistles that you'd get with the more advanced versions of Quickbooks, but it's perfect to track your finances as a self employed person. There's a good reason Intuit is the leader in this space!

I love the interface, design and layout of QuickBooks Self-Employed! I use the online version and they've really designed it exactly for people who are self employed like myself. It makes tax time super easy and makes it easy to budget and keep track of expenses. You can also make invoices cleanly and quickly. Overall I love that it's geared for self employed individuals, as the name suggests!

While I do love how simple it is, it's sometimes even a little too basic or user friendly. I can't fault it too much for this since that's also what make it so great, but don't expect this to be as in depth as regular Qiuckbooks as it really is just geared for self employed folks, and I would even as it's for beginners.

I'm very happy with the software and it almost suits all of my needs bar the lack of quotations.

QBSE is very easy to setup and use. It links directly to any bank accounts that you use so it's always pulling through transactions for you to check and allocate as necessary. You can customise the invoices easily and use your own branding. It quickly and easily calculates your taxes and estimates your year end liability. I use the app on my android phone as well as the desktop version and both are very good. It's great to be able to raise invoices whilst with a client.

The one thing that bothers me is that you can't raise quotations in the software without upgrading the package to a tier that's overkill for what I need.

Overall a good experience. This software prevents me from losing receipts and having to do a ton of work on my taxes at the end of the year.

The most obvious pros are the receipt tracking and the integration with TurboTax. You can snap pictures of receipts or upload screenshots for those online and record the biller, amount, date, and any notes. There's also a category feature I find helpful. At the end of the year, QuickBooks will send it all to TurboTax, which makes self-employed taxes way easier.

It's expensive. For the tax package, it's $25/month, or $300 by the end of the year.

My overall experience was satisfactory. It's a well-known name, which may have played a part in my choosing the software. But, as I've stated above, I switched to a more robust and more affordable software. You can view my comparison of QB: SE and my current software, and why I switched, here:https://redconradswellnessalternatives.com/2021/04/05/tools-for-the-self-employed-independent-contractor-small-business-owner-gig-worker/

It has many features needed to stay on top things.

I found it to be a little pricey, especially compared to the software I currently use. The free version of my current software alone blows QB: SE out of the water, paid version is split into tiers that is both more affordable and more robust then QB.

Overall, definitely worth using when it comes free with TurboTax.

This comes free when filing with TurboTax Self Employed, so it did not cost anything to set up. It's pretty intuitive and makes it easy to categorize transactions and spending.

Invoicing is not the greatest. It's difficult to configure it and make any changes. Customizing your invoices can be a real pain.

This is a great tool for people starting their small business. A few more features would make it the perfect choice.

-Links to bank accounts and credit cards and categorizes transactions automatically. -Milage tracking is a great feature. -Send invoices to clients.

- When the milage tracking is turned on, it kills my phones battery and drains it in less than 10 hours. I turned it off and the result is shocking. - Invoice processing takes up to 3-4 day, and then I have to wait for the bank processing for another 2 days.

While I love the mileage tracking and the lonks to banks, it is really frustrating when i spend 20 minutes categorizing mileage as personal or business, only to discover that thw changes have not been saved

Love the mileage tracking and that it links to my bank and credit card accounts

Difficult to categorize entries and correct reports. Categories are not customizable. If the app does not connect to the internet, changes made do not save.

It helps me do billing, accounting, and sending invoices to clients.

The website times out before you can save an invoice. This happened many times and I lost hours of work. There is no way to change it! My invoices have many items and it takes me time to go through my notes and my calendar to compile it. If the designers of the software did billing, they would actually know that. Please add a feature to not get timed out. Also their customer service is not available on weekends. Like many self employed I do my billing on weekends and I cannot get any help. However their homepage has customer service available for new customers 24/7. It seems new business is more important that paying customers.

It was fine until they revamped the format. They put it out too early while it was and IS still full of problems.Why pay a monthly fee for garbage like this? They should have taken the time and hired quality programmers to present their existing clients with an improvement, not a liability in terms of time and efficiency. The program doesn't even put dates in order.

I liked the flow of the program and how it saved previous client entries so I didn't have to enter particulars every single invoice. That no longer exists.

New Beta format is almost un usable! Full of problems and errors. Unprofessional.

Great. Very happy I am using it. QB SE is a trusted and affordable resource for keeping my business and tax items in check.

I love the different features QB Self-Employed has: Auto-mileage tracking, invoicing, tax checklist, it tells you when an invoice has been viewed and payed, transaction tracking, business reports, and it syncs with TurboTax

I wish the invoicing feature was more sophisticated. For example, I wish I could send estimates instead of an "invoice" at times, but I have another program I use outside of QB that can do that for me. It's probably in a more expensive QB service but I wish it were available for Self-Employed.

Abysmal in every sense. A hopeless product that you cannot trust, coupled with a support team who don't hellp in any way at all, and a complaints department that won't listen or offer any sort of recompense. Do not use this company for anything, ever!

Seemed fine initially but then realised it was duplicating hundreds of transactions and totally skewing the data. When asked to fix it, almost one year later I had to go through and manually delete all of the entries myself which took over 2 days - worst software ever? And the support team just ignore, lie and avoid

Everything! The whole experience has been probably the worst as a customer I have ever had and I would never ever use any of their products or services again, even if you paid me!

I highly recommend QuickBooks Self-Employed!

I absolutely LOVE QuickBooks self-employed. It is convenient, easy to use and even tracks mileage! That’s huge as most of my business is conducted on the road. I also love how I can invoice and accept payment right from the mobile app.

One of the reasons I selected QuickBooks was its integration with TurboTax. However, I was disappointed to realize that it only adjusted for Federal Taxes, not State. I would love to see State taxes added in future versions.

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

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.

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.

I love the simple workflow for most things invoices, quotes, expenses, time, etc. I hate accounting, and book keeping so to be able to add these rapid fire with little effort makes me very happy. It also is very handy come tax time b/c I can easily grab all the information and hand it off to turbo tax or an accountant for them to deal with. I also really like the dashboard so I can quickly view the status of my freelance accounts.

Somethings feel almost buried. I wish there was some customization for more commonly used tasks. I'm more inclined to generate a bunch of quotes versus invoices so I wish I had a way to remove some drill down for more commonly used tasks.

I’ve stopped using it and switch to another brand of accounting software and service, and I will be sticking with the new service.

Well I was using QuickBooks self-employed, I did like that it would automatically add transactions from my business debit card, my PayPal account, and my Etsy account.

Well I was using QuickBooks self-employed, I did like that it would automatically add transactions from my business debit card, my PayPal account, and my Etsy account. I did not like that QuickBooks self-employed was very generalized and I was not able to tweak it or customize it to fit my business and my specific expenses and day-to-day transactions.

Frustrating. Thankful for at least something to invoice my clients, but this is a limited program that doesn't do some very common, basic things.

It gives me a template to enter line item invoices and get instant calculations.

Holes in basic needs, such as counter-intuitive button functions -- it's easy to send a premature invoice, inadvertently erase work, and you can't easily, or sometimes at all, send a copy of your invoice to another email address. Sometimes it glitches and won't send. If you want to re-invoice someone due to late payment, there's no way to write your client a note--the program just sends the same invoice with no explanation to your client. It's just a badly conceived program.

Very straightforward setup. Handles invoicing, time keeping and spending itself.

Connects directly to TurboTax if you are a pass-through LLC. Makes sending and re-sending invoices very easy. A better spending tracker than my bank has!

The mobile app is very expensive - $15 per month just to have it on your phone.

It really keeps me organized so I see exactly where my money goes and taxes owed.

Easy to access and store a lot of information in the app. I love how I can snap pictures of my receipts and instantly see purchases.

I hate that I have to use the desktop to look at breakdowns for specific months or quarters. I hate how the app logs expenses and incomes twice so I have constantly delete the double entry in the app.

Quickbooks self-employed offers the essential tools needed such as mileage tracking and tax estimates.

After covering the essentials Quickbooks self-employed has no other features. It is very bare-bones and doesn’t allow budgeting, time tracking, inventory, or other useful features other accounting systems have.

Overall, my experience with QuickBooks Self-Employed software has been positive, as it provides a systematic way for me to make my time spent on business more efficient and easy. Using the app on my cell phone has been a game changer as well.

QuickBooks Self-Employed software includes an incredible simple and easy to use interface to classify expenses between personal and business, including tags to denote certain features of the expense, and even provides a way to auto-classify transactions that regularly come from the same source. I also appreciate the mileage tracking feature to this softward.

Sometimes there is a small lag in depositing checks into my business account and reflection onto the software in order to classify the expense, delaying my efficiency, but otherwise I have yet to find a feature of QuickBooks Self-Employed that is specifically negative.

Keeping employee records and printing payroll checks.

Can be difficult to run annual reports at tax time.