Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini about your QuickBooks data.
A QuickBooks MCP server, also called a QuickBooks MCP connector, connects AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to your QuickBooks Online data, so you can ask questions in plain English and get answers from real records. Kipper is a hosted QuickBooks MCP connector built for finance teams: no code, no OAuth app registration, and read-only by architecture. Connect once, then ask about invoices, payments, AR aging, vendor bills or purchase orders.
3 customers with balances over $5,000 past due:
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In transit & at rest
12+ years
Finance integration experience
See it work
Ask QuickBooks from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
A replay of real Kipper answers over MCP. Click it to open the live demo and ask it yourself — it runs against a sample company, never your own books.
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The short answer
Is there an MCP server for QuickBooks?
Yes. There are two main routes. Intuit publishes an official open-source QuickBooks Online MCP server on GitHub, which runs locally on a developer's machine and requires an app on the Intuit Developer Portal, OAuth credentials, and a Node.js build. Hosted options like Kipper skip the setup entirely: you authorize QuickBooks once in a web portal, add one MCP connection to your AI assistant, and every answer is scoped by permissions and logged. Which one fits depends on whether a developer or a finance team is doing the connecting.
The problem
Your AI is smart. It just can't see your books.
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini about your finances today and you get one of two things: a guess, or a request to paste in a report. Exports go stale the moment you download them, the AI only sees the slice you pasted, and sensitive numbers end up sitting in a chat history.
The official fix, running an MCP server yourself, means a developer, an OAuth app, and a local process someone has to babysit. Kipper closes the gap with one hosted, read-only connection: your AI sees live QuickBooks data, scoped to exactly what each person is allowed to ask about.
How it works
Connected and running in under an hour.
Connect QuickBooks Online
Authorize Kipper from the admin portal. Initial sync ~10 minutes.
Set permissions
Full visibility, AR only, or custom scope per user, team, or channel. Sensitive data excluded before the AI sees it.
Add the Kipper MCP connector to your AI assistant
One connection in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. No API keys, no redirect URIs, no local server.
Ask a question
“What's our total outstanding AR right now?” A real number back in about 5 seconds.
Most teams are live in under an hour. No developer required at any step.
MCP
Be first to connect your AI to QuickBooks.
Join the list and connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini the moment your access is live.
Interactive demo
Don't take our word for it. Ask it yourself.
Open the live QuickBooks demo and ask about invoices, AR aging, unpaid bills or payments, answered from sample finance data.
Interactive · sample QuickBooks data
Example questions
Ask in plain English. Get answers from real records.
"Which customers have overdue balances over $5,000?"
Ranked list with amounts, days past due, totals.
"What were our expenses last month by category?"
Breakdown across travel, software, payroll, contractors.
"Has Riverstone Media paid their last invoice?"
Invoice amount, due date, payment status.
"How do this quarter's expense categories compare to last quarter's?"
Side-by-side totals, category by category.
Data available
Your full QuickBooks dataset, queryable in seconds.
Kipper caches your complete QuickBooks Online data and maps it to a unified schema optimized for fast querying. Everything your bookkeeper works with becomes available to your whole team, within the permissions you set.
Customers & Contacts
Full customer records including contact details, payment terms, outstanding balances, and transaction history.
Invoices & Payments
Every invoice, payment, partial payment, and outstanding balance, queryable by customer, date, amount, or status.
Bills & Expenses
Vendor bills, expense records, and accounts payable, visible to finance and ops teams without a QuickBooks login.
Items & Products
Your full product and service catalogue including pricing, descriptions, and sales history per item.
Vendors
Vendor records, payment terms, outstanding bills, and purchase history across your supplier base.
Credit Notes & Refunds
Credit memos, refunds, and adjustments, searchable by customer, period, or amount.
Works with QuickBooks Online over MCP. QuickBooks Desktop is supported in Slack, Teams, and SMS.
From $200/mo, everything included.
10 users and 2,000 questions a month, read-only across your whole team. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Compare
Kipper vs. Intuit's official QuickBooks MCP server vs. building your own.
See all six QuickBooks MCP options compared| Kipper | Intuit's official server GitHub ↗ | DIY open-source | |
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| Best for | Finance teams, no code | Developers building AI apps | Engineers who want full control |
| Setup | Web portal, under an hour | Clone repo, npm build, Intuit developer app, OAuth flow | Varies; you own it end to end |
| Hosting | Hosted by Kipper | Runs locally on your machine | You host it |
| Write access | Impossible by architecture | Create, update, and delete tools registered by default (env flags to disable) | Depends on implementation |
| Per-user permissions | Yes, enforced at query time | No; server-level credentials | Build it yourself |
| Audit trail | Every question and answer logged | No | Build it yourself |
| Data freshness | Webhook sync, typically seconds | Live API calls | Depends |
| Works with | Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini + Slack, Teams, SMS | Any MCP client (local) | Any MCP client |
| Price | From $200/mo, 14-day free trial | Free (open source) | Free + your time |
When Intuit's official server is the right choice
You're a developer comfortable with the Intuit Developer Portal and OAuth, you want free and open source, and you're building or testing on your own machine. It's a well-built server with full API coverage (140+ tools across 29 entity types, per Intuit's own README).
When Kipper is the right choice
A finance team, ops team, or business owner wants AI answers from QuickBooks without a developer in the loop, and read-only access, per-user permissions, and an audit trail are requirements rather than nice-to-haves. One caution about the DIY route: a locally run server with full CRUD tools means anyone with the config can create or delete records in your books through an AI conversation.
Skip the developer setup entirely.
See Kipper answer against real QuickBooks data. Hosted, read-only, no OAuth app to register.
Under the hood
Built on a synced copy, not API round-trips.
QuickBooks Online's API is deliberately narrow: no joins, no GROUP BY, one entity per query. Standard reports handle standard questions, but a custom one like "compare this quarter's expense categories to last, by vendor" forces an AI to stitch together multiple API calls and do the math itself, which is where wrong answers creep in.
Kipper answers from a synced, webhook-fresh copy of your QuickBooks data instead. Cross-entity comparisons and breakdowns become single queries against complete records, which is why answers come back in about five seconds, with the actual figures.
Why now
Connecting AI to finance data is now a plan of record.
Security
Read-only by architecture, not by promise.
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It cannot write. Kipper connects to QuickBooks read-only. Creating, editing, or deleting records through Kipper is architecturally impossible, no matter what the AI is asked.
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Permissioned at the source. Admins scope access by user, team, or channel. The scope is enforced when the query runs, regardless of how the question is phrased.
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Everything is logged. Every question and answer lands in the admin portal audit trail.
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Encrypted, in transit and at rest. Hosted on AWS in the United States, built by the team behind Breadwinner with 12+ years in finance integrations.
Give your team QuickBooks answers, safely.
Read-only, permissioned, and audit-logged. Start free. No credit card, live in under an hour.
The team
Kipper is new. The team behind it isn't.
Kipper is built by the team behind Breadwinner, with 12+ years connecting finance systems to the tools businesses run on.
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Pricing
Simple, usage-based pricing.
$200/month including 10 users and 2,000 questions/month. Additional users $5/month, overage $0.05/question. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Full pricing
QuickBooks Online
$200
/ month
- Includes up to 10 active users
- $5 / month per additional active user
- 2,000 questions / month included
14-day free trial, no credit card. Overage $0.05/question. View full pricing →
Explore the integrations
One QuickBooks connection, every assistant.
The same read-only QuickBooks connection powers Kipper everywhere your team already works. Pick where you want to ask.
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FAQ
QuickBooks MCP Connector FAQ
Common questions about connecting AI assistants to QuickBooks through Kipper.
Ask your AI about your QuickBooks data.
Safely. Read-only. Permissioned. Logged. Live in under an hour.