Move Quicken Home and Business to QuickBooks: export each account to QIF, convert the QIF to a QBO file, and import it into QuickBooks Online in minutes.
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To move Quicken Home and Business into QuickBooks, export each account from Quicken to a QIF file, convert that QIF into a QBO (Web Connect) file, and upload the QBO inside QuickBooks. QuickBooks has never opened a Quicken .QDF data file or read a QIF, so the conversion step is what makes the import work. Your register history carries across; invoices, customers and open receivables do not. This page covers every route out of Quicken Home and Business, what each one really carries, and how to land the data in QuickBooks Online without a week of cleanup.
Last updated July 2026. Quicken Home & Business is now sold as Quicken Classic Business & Personal, and it is still a personal finance program with business features attached: branded invoices with billable hours, and built in Schedule C, E and F reports. QuickBooks is double entry accounting with a chart of accounts, customers, vendors and a general ledger underneath. The two products model money differently, which is why no button exists to hand one file to the other.
The QIF route is the one that survives contact with reality. Quicken for Windows still exports a clean QIF per account, our converter rewrites it as a QuickBooks Web Connect file with a proper header, a balance record and a unique ID on every transaction, and QuickBooks treats the result exactly like a file downloaded from your bank. Nothing gets typed twice, and the import screen you use is the same one your bookkeeper already knows.
Be deliberate about which accounts you export. A Home and Business file usually holds the company checking account, a business credit card, one or two rental properties and the household money all in one place. Export the business and rental registers only. Pulling personal spending into a company file is the first habit an accountant asks a client to break, and it makes both reconciliation and tax prep harder every month afterward.
Plan for what a QIF cannot hold. It is a register format, so it carries transactions, not the records behind them: no customer or vendor list, no open invoices, no accounts receivable balances, no budgets, saved reports, categorization rules or attachments. Payments you already collected arrive as deposits, which is correct for the books. Any invoice still unpaid on your switch date has to be entered in QuickBooks by hand so receivables start accurate.
| Route out of Quicken | Works with | What it needs | What it actually carries | Practical verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QIF export, converted to QBO | QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop | Quicken for Windows QIF export, then a converter | Bank, credit card and cash transactions with dates, payees, amounts, memos, categories and splits | The only route that works with QuickBooks Online today |
| Intuit Quicken Converter (.QDF) | QuickBooks Desktop only | A Windows .QDF plus the converter build that matches your QuickBooks year | Accounts and transactions, with names that frequently land in the Other Names list | Closed to newcomers: Pro Plus, Premier Plus and Mac Plus stopped selling to new US subscribers on September 30, 2024 |
| CSV upload | QuickBooks Online | A three or four column CSV in the QuickBooks layout | Date, description and amount only | Workable, but you map columns by hand for every account and dates misread often |
| Manual re-entry | Anything | Time | Whatever you type | Fine for one month of data, unrealistic for years of history |
Built for the QIF files Quicken and finance tools actually export, checked before it exports.
The converter adds up the transactions it parsed and matches that to your file total before you export, so nothing is silently dropped.
Valid OFX 1.02 with QuickBooks Web Connect headers. Online and Desktop import it as a standard bank feed.
Date, payee, and amount are read straight from the QIF tags, so there is nothing to map and no layout to match.
Bulk upload for catch-up and cleanup work. Each file gets its own reconciliation check and its own exports.
Mixed date formats, apostrophe years, currency symbols, and split lines in a QIF are cleaned up and summed before the .qbo is built.
One conversion, three files: the .qbo for QuickBooks, an XLSX to review, and a CSV for everything else.
Three steps. No column-mapping wizard.
Drag in a .qif export from Quicken, your bank, or another finance tool. Any QIF type works.
Every transaction is parsed and checked against your file total. You see the rows before exporting.
Download the .qbo and import it as a Web Connect bank feed. Excel and CSV are in the same download.
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Yes, but not by opening the Quicken file in QuickBooks. You export your accounts from Quicken to QIF, convert the QIF to a QBO file, then import that file in QuickBooks. Transaction history comes across cleanly and in balance. Invoices, customers and open balances are rebuilt on the QuickBooks side once, at the switch date.
No. QuickBooks Online cannot open a .QDF data file, and it does not accept QIF in any version. Its bank upload screen takes CSV, QBO, QFX and OFX, with a 350 KB limit per file. Converting your Quicken QIF export to QBO puts the data into a format that upload screen already accepts.
In Quicken for Windows, open the data file and go to File, then File Export, then QIF File. Choose one account, set the date range, tick the transaction types and the categories you want, and save. Repeat for each business account. Quicken for Mac has had no QIF export since Quicken Mac 2007, so Mac users export a CSV register instead.
No. A QIF file carries register transactions, not the invoice, customer or vendor records behind them. Invoices you already collected appear as deposits, which is what the books need. Anything still open on your switch date gets entered in QuickBooks manually, usually as a short list of unpaid invoices dated before the cutover so accounts receivable ties out.
Yes, under a new name. Quicken renamed the desktop line Quicken Classic, and Home & Business became Quicken Classic Business & Personal. It is advertised at $10.99 a month billed annually in August 2026, which is $131.88 a year, against a regular rate of $12.49 a month. It still creates branded invoices with billable hours and expenses, and it still produces Schedule C, E and F tax reports.
Only if you already own Desktop. Intuit's Quicken Converter turns a Windows .QDF into a Desktop company file using the converter build that matches your QuickBooks year, and it cannot read a Quicken for Mac file at all. Intuit stopped selling Pro Plus, Premier Plus and Mac Plus to new US subscribers on September 30, 2024, so most people cannot start there.
The timeline matters if you are still on Desktop. QuickBooks Desktop 2023 lost live support and connected services, including online bank feeds, after May 31, 2026. Desktop 2024 is the final release and is supported through September 30, 2027, and Enterprise is the only edition Intuit still sells. If you are leaving Quicken today, a QIF to QBO import into QuickBooks Online is the path with a future.
The transactions convert; the property structure does not. Quicken tracks rentals as tags and categories inside a register, while QuickBooks tracks them as customers, classes or locations. Most landlords import the history first, then set up each property in QuickBooks and recategorize forward. Budget an hour per property for mapping if you have several years of activity.
Most businesses convert the current fiscal year plus the prior one. That gives QuickBooks reports real comparatives without dragging a decade of noise into the ledger. If you need older history for a loan file or an audit, convert it to Excel or CSV and keep it as an archive rather than posting it to the books, where every line has to be categorized.
Only if your date ranges overlap something already in QuickBooks. QuickBooks matches on the unique ID inside each transaction, and our converter writes a deterministic ID, so re-uploading the same file does not double post. Import one account at a time, stop the converted range where your live bank feed starts, and clear the For Review tab before the next account.
The software math is the real cost, not the conversion. Quicken Classic Business & Personal is $10.99 a month as advertised in August 2026. QuickBooks Online starts at $38 a month for Simple Start, $85 for Essentials, $140 for Plus and $340 for Advanced. Those figures reflect Intuit's increase of August 1, 2026, which lifted Essentials, Plus and Advanced but left Simple Start alone. If you already subscribe, the new rate hits at your next renewal rather than immediately.
Pick a clean cutover date, ideally the first day of a month or quarter. Reconcile every Quicken account through the day before, export those accounts to QIF, convert and import them, then enter opening balances for anything QIF cannot carry: unpaid invoices, unpaid bills and loan balances. Reconcile once more in QuickBooks against the same bank statement and the two systems will agree.
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