Intuit Announces Expansion of Claude and ChatGPT Connectivity

Intuit has just announced a major expansion of what small businesses can do through its QuickBooks connector in Claude and plugin within ChatGPT, moving beyond read-only access to financial data and enabling customers to complete more work directly via AI conversations.

New capabilities include:

• Complete sales workflows, including creating, updating and sending invoices, estimates, payment links and overdue reminders

• Looking up employee, payslips, benefits, time-off and payroll-readiness information without having to open a report to answer questions

• Comparing lending terms against anonymized, aggregated data based on the top 10% of similar QuickBooks businesses- intelligence only QuickBooks is uniquely positioned to provide, built on real small business data and surfaced in plain language.

A business owner could ask the QuickBooks connector while in Claude to create, review, and send an invoice for a customer—without switching tools. Or a business owner could ask the QuickBooks plugin while in ChatGPT to create, review, and send a purchase order to a vendor—without switching tools.

While we are not suggesting that you run right out and connect your clients' QuickBooks files to Claude or ChatGPT for them, especially without discussing it first. Or even connect your own firm's QuickBooks file(s) to ChatGPT or Claude, we are going to take this opportunity to step you through the connection process.

If you are already connected to Claude or ChatGPT from your QuickBooks there are no extra steps or setup that's required to start using the new functionality. 

Connecting QuickBooks to Claude or ChatGPT

Connecting QuickBooks to Claude takes just three steps.

Claude Connectivity

1) Open your Claude.ai account and navigate to the Customize tab in the left sidebar.

2) Click Connectors, search for "QuickBooks," and then select the connector from the results.

3) Click Connect and start asking questions about your business.

ChatGPT Plugin connection

1) In ChatGPT, find Plugins in the left sidebar. Search for "Intuit QuickBooks" and click Connect Intuit QuickBooks.

2) Sign in to your QuickBooks account or create one. You'll then be returned to ChatGPT after sign in.

3) From the Intuit QuickBooks plugin, click Start chat and put your business finances are ready for a 'chat'.

As accountants guide clients toward smarter tech stacks, integrations like this give firms a playbook for helping businesses eliminate friction and accelerate cash flow.

For more details, head over to the Intuit Blog feature, "QuickBooks Expands Connector in Claude and Plugin in ChatGPT with New Sales Invoicing, Payroll, and Lending Features."

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