This discrepancy occurs due to the different ways the two platforms calculate tax:
When an invoice contains multiple items with mixed tax eligibility (some taxable, some exempt) where there are multiple taxes on the invoice, QuickBooks may over-calculate the tax on the total. You will see this difference highlighted in the Document Reconciliation after the invoice has been synced.
Example:
Because QuickBooks has calculated a higher tax amount than what was actually charged to the customer, you need to adjust the invoice balance and your general ledger. Follow these three steps:
Please Note: Even with these corrections in place within QuickBooks, the Document Reconciliation on our platform will still display a difference for the Tax and Invoice Total. This is expected behavior, as the report highlights the discrepancy caused during the initial sync.
Items sent to QuickBooks are set up as Non-Inventory or Service items.
We intentionally do not classify items as "Inventory" in QuickBooks. If we did, QuickBooks would automatically generate its own accounting entries for inventory and cost of goods sold. Since our platform is the source of truth for this information and already sends it to QuickBooks, we prevent QuickBooks from making these duplicate entries.
Consequently, quantity on hand is not tracked in QuickBooks. Instead, please rely on our platform for:
Cash Basis Accounting is a method where financial transactions are recorded only when money actually changes hands.
This differs from Accrual Accounting, which records income when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, regardless of the actual cash flow.
While switching accounting methods is discouraged and may be restricted by local tax laws, our platform does support this change. You can update this preference on the Integration Settings page.
Once you've enabled accrual basis accounting in the Integration Settings, any journal entries that were not previously synced to QuickBooks will appear on the Pending Transactions page, where they can be reviewed and uploaded.
To limit which historical transactions are added to the sync queue, please define an Integration Effective Date when enabling Accrual Basis Accounting.
While switching accounting methods is discouraged and may be restricted by local tax laws, our platform does support this change. You can update this preference on the Integration Settings page.
After making this change,