Software pricing · Bookkeeping, invoicing and project profitability
QuickBooks Online pricing (verified 2026-09-22)
By Oussama Chicha, EditorUpdated Checked against primary sources · not yet reviewed by a licensed professionalFormula shown below · see the math
Quick answer
QuickBooks Online’s lowest-priced paid plan, Simple Start, lists at $38/mo billed monthly. It includes 1 user. A Free plan is also listed at $0/mo.
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As recorded from QuickBooks Online’s pricing page when it was checked on 2026-09-22:
Free:Free $0/mo — 1 user, No accountant access, Send 2 invoices per month
How QuickBooks Online prices its plans
Intuit's pricing page for QuickBooks Online lists four paid plans (Simple Start, Essentials, Plus and Advanced) alongside a Free plan. The paid plans are priced by the month, and the page does not mention an annual billing option. Each paid plan includes a set number of users, more on each higher plan, plus access for accountants.
Tracking project profitability first appears in the Plus plan's feature list, and the construction financials solution and advanced project financials are listed only on Advanced. Advanced also lists custom user permissions, workflow automation, Excel sync, batch invoices and expenses, and priority support and training.
The page quotes no prices for Intuit's separately sold products, such as Payroll or QuickBooks Payments, and it lists no card-processing rates. The one payment charge it names is a per-transaction fee on standard ACH payments beyond a monthly allotment, and it does not say how large that allotment is.
The page offers a free trial, and it states that there is no annual contract and that a subscription can be canceled at any time.
What’s extra
Card and bank payments
Cards: Not published
As recorded from QuickBooks Online’s pricing page: $0.50/standard ACH transaction over monthly allotments
Free trial
30 days
Contract
No annual contract; Cancel anytime.
Not published: the vendor’s pricing page does not give this figure, or it could not be confirmed there on 2026-09-22. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed on the vendor’s own page.
What 3 users cost for a year
illustrative worked example using the vendor's listed rates
3 users for 12 months on QuickBooks Online’s Essentials plan, billed monthly: the lowest-cost listed plan and billing term that covers 3 users with every price it needs published.
Essentials, billed monthly: $85/mo × 12 months = $1,020
Total for the year = $1,020
No card-processing rate is published here, so none is added.
