QuickBooks Online permissions,
in plain English.
When you connect an app, QuickBooks shows an authorization page with the app's name, the company you are connecting, and the permissions it asks for. QuickBooks permissions are coarse. One accounting permission covers most of your books, and QuickBooks lists no read-only version of it. Once you say yes, the app stays connected without you. The connection ends when you disconnect the app, when it goes unused for 100 days, or when it hits a 5-year limit.
- Full QuickBooks accounting access
This is the main QuickBooks permission, and it is broad. One yes lets the app use most of what you can do in QuickBooks Online yourself: customers, vendors, invoices, bills, payments, journal entries, and reports. QuickBooks lists no read-only version, so a tool that only needs to look still gets the power to change and delete. - Take and refund payments
This lets the app use QuickBooks Payments to charge your customers' cards and bank accounts, and to refund those charges. This is real money moving, not just a note in your books. It is separate from the accounting permission. Card charges through this permission work only for US-based QuickBooks companies. - Projects
This lets the app read and change your QuickBooks projects. Projects are available on QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced, and on Intuit Enterprise Suite. - Custom fields (read and change)
This lets the app see and change the custom fields you add to QuickBooks forms, like size or color on an invoice. - Custom fields (view only)
This lets the app see which custom fields you have set up in QuickBooks. It cannot change them. - Sales tax calculation
This lets the app use QuickBooks to work out sales tax. - Employee pay types
This lets the app see the pay types set up for your employees in QuickBooks Payroll. It is view only.
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This page explains what a permission allows. It does not describe, test or rate any product. Permission details are summarized in our own words from the provider's documentation, linked on the page; providers change their documentation, so check the source before you rely on a detail.