Syncing Invoices to QuickBooks Online (QBO) can be useful for many reasons. Whether you're sending the invoice to a customer/company that also uses QBO or you have an employee who works primarily out of their platform, we've got you covered.

This is different from our automatic daily syncing, or syncing purchase orders to QBO.

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To start syncing Invoices to QBO, take these steps:

Syncing is done 1-by-1 and on-demand. This means we won’t sync items over automatically and you’ll need to tell us specifically which invoice or you would like to sync over.

Once you've completed the steps above, create an initial Invoice in QBO directly and go through the basic set-up process on their end.

Next, you can start syncing invoices to QBO that are in an Open, Partially Paid, Paid, or Uncollectable status. The only status that will not be eligible to sync over is the Draft status. In other words, to have the option to sync the invoice to QBO, the invoice cannot be in Draft status.

To get an invoice out of a Draft status, you’ll need to have sent the invoice. Click “Send Invoice” in the top right corner (if you haven’t done so already). You can send it to your customer, a fake email, or yourself (so you have a record of it).

Once you send the invoice to an email address, it will be officially in an “Open” status and we can sync it to QBO.

From inside the invoice, click on the gear icon in the top right corner and click “Sync to QuickBooks” as shown here:

If it synced properly, the invoice would sync over in a few minutes to QBO, though you might need to refresh the page in QBO.

It will show up on the “Get paid & pay” section under “Invoices” As shown here:

Here’s a direct link to the invoicing page on QBO.

Invoices on Thrive and QuickBooks Online share many of the same fields, but there are also some differences between the two platforms.

Here are the fields that we sync to currently:

Discounts, whether Line Item or overall Invoice Discounts (% and $) will be reflected in the Discount value on QBO.

You will need to click the "Sync to QuickBooks" button for an invoice to sync over.

To be clear, if you create an invoice in Thrive and do not click the "Sync to QuickBooks" button, it will not sync over to QBO.

Syncing is done 1-by-1 and on-demand.

Make sure QBO is connected to Thrive on this page. Next, double-check that the invoice you are trying to sync is above a Draft status. Drafted invoices will not have the option to be synced to QBO.

If you’re still not seeing the option to “Sync to QuickBooks” please double-check that you have completed the two steps at the top of this article. And if that doesn’t solve the issue, please write to our Customer Care Team and we can double-check that you have opted into the BETA.

The first time you sync an invoice to QBO will always take a little bit longer because we are trying to establish a brand-new connection.

If any errors pop up while attempting to sync to QBO, please take note of them. You may need to try syncing again in a few minutes. Generally, it should take less than 30 seconds for us to push the invoice to QBO successfully and it should be followed by a green success message.

If the problem persists, the invoice might be temporarily stuck. Please reach out to our Customer Care Team and we can take a closer look for you.

As long as the invoice number hasn’t changed, then you are good to re-sync and QBO will be updated accordingly.

Alternatively, if you change the invoice number, a new invoice will be created in QBO.

We do not sync your payment status to QBO at this time. Once you sync the invoice to QBO, you can process the payment however you'd like.