QIF to QBO conversion for accountants and bookkeepers

The same job every time: a Quicken QIF file goes into the QIF to QBO converter, a clean QBO file comes out, and QuickBooks reconciles without a single line typed by hand.

Totals reconcile to the original file QuickBooks Online and Desktop
.qif → .qbo
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No account needed for your first 3 conversions. We never store your bank login.

Five people who live in this workflow

Different titles, the same headache: a bank that won't feed QuickBooks and transactions that need to land clean.

The staff bookkeeper at a firm
Twenty client books, and three of those clients still keep their records in Quicken. Each month they export the QIF files, run them through QIFQBO, and import the .qbo files. What used to be an afternoon of copy-paste is now a coffee break.
The solo or fractional bookkeeper
Running their own roster of small clients, paid per close, every minute is billable. They take whatever the client sends, a Quicken QIF export from a bank account or a credit card, and turn it into a QBO file that drops straight into QuickBooks Online. No bank logins to collect, no manual entry to bill back.
The small-business owner
Keeps their own books and just wants the bank to show up in QuickBooks. Their credit union exports a Quicken QIF file but offers no live feed. They drop it into QIFQBO once, and from then on every monthly export becomes a QBO import in under a minute. Opening and closing balances match on the first try.
The accountant doing cleanup and catch-up
A new client shows up eighteen months behind. The bank feed only reaches back ninety days, so the rest has to come from Quicken. They batch the historical QIF files, let duplicate detection catch the overlap with the feed, and backfill the whole year into QuickBooks with the right dates and correctly signed amounts.
The controller
Owns the close calendar across several entities and corporate cards. Some accounts feed QuickBooks, some live in Quicken. They standardize on QIFQBO so every entity follows the same path: export the QIF, convert, import. Every entity converts the same way, so each register gets its own clean .qbo file and nothing is mixed between books.

Four jobs QIFQBO runs every day

Specific work, not buzzwords. Each one starts with an export and ends with a reconciled register.

Banks with no QuickBooks feed

A surprising number of community banks, credit unions and business cards still export only to Quicken's QIF format. QIFQBO reads that QIF, fixes the date format, sets the FID, and writes a QBO file QuickBooks accepts as a Web Connect import.

Monthly close

Same banks, same QIF layout, every month. The close becomes routine: export the QIF, drop it in, import the .qbo. Opening and closing balances carry through so the register reconciles instead of fighting you.

Catch-up backfill

The live feed only reaches back so far. For cleanup engagements, batch convert months of historical Quicken QIF files at once, with duplicate detection so the backfill does not collide with whatever the feed already pulled in.

Credit-card imports

Old Quicken QIF files love to bury split transactions and signed amounts. QIFQBO reads the tags, handles debits and credits correctly across multi-currency cards, and produces a QBO file so card activity reconciles against the statement, not against your patience.

Whatever the workflow, it starts with one upload.

A Quicken QIF in, a clean QBO file out. Run your first conversion free.

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Pick the page that matches your workflow

Each one covers a different destination, file type or volume, with the converter on the page.

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