![]() ![]() This is especially true when you connect QuickBooks Self-Employed to its mobile app, which we liked a lot. It will certainly help anyone get organised around expenses and tax, which is exactly what many very small businesses need. For this niche QuickBooks Self-Employed performs well. It’s best to think of it as tax software with some basic bookkeeping thrown in as opposed to accounting software, and with expectations thus set you are unlikely to be disappointed.Īt least, not if you’re a freelancer or sole proprietor business. QuickBooks Self-Employed doesn’t do a vast amount, but it handles its limited brief well. There is also a help center and QuickBooks forum, though the latter is for all QuickBooks products and not just QuickBooks Self-Employed. QuickBooks Self-Employed actually has better customer service options than its grander sibling, with a decent live chat option and a contact form that is answered quite quickly. Intuit QuickBooks Online has been criticized for rather sluggish customer support, but Intuit has obviously realized that freelancers tend to need more of a helping hand than employees of larger businesses. Intuit QuickBooks Self-Employed review: Performance Completing tasks is straightforward, but if you do get stuck the Help button can take you to a small library of useful articles. ![]() The whole package is free of jargon and complexity, and gratifyingly light on clutter and extraneous information. You get very few templates with QuickBooks Self-Employed but what there are are clean and professional. There’s nothing surprising here, but it’s very nicely done, and a match for the likes of Wave, which is also very well designed. They follow a familiar format of a left hand vertical panel containing navigation links and a large central area for information and data entry. The pages are generally simple and clear, ideal for time poor freelancers wanting basic information at a glance. Freelancers and sole proprietors are unlikely to have either the time or inclination to spend hours learning arcane accounting rules. This is how it should be with a basic tax and bookkeeping tool. It’s an easy learning curve from set up, to sending your first invoice, to linking your bank account and starting to categorize expenses. ![]() QuickBooks Self-Employed is quite a simple package and even beginners won’t take long to get to grips with it. Intuit QuickBooks Self-Employed is easy to set up, asking you for some basic company information and then offering you the opportunity to add your bank account, download the mobile app and forward receipts from your email inbox. ![]() Intuit QuickBooks Self-Employed review: Interface and usability You can track mileage, vehicle costs, office supplies and even healthcare expenses. QuickBooks Self-Employed lets you file and pay taxes online with TurboTax but only if you invest in the higher priced package.ĭeductions are excellently handled. You can dig down into a quarter to see taxable income, deductions and projected profit. Calculating tax is a thankless task for any freelancer, but QuickBooks Self-Employed does a good job of doing it for you.Īfter asking you some basic questions on your tax filing status, QuickBooks Self-Employed takes all the information from your income and expenses to estimate your quarterly tax bill and annual tax projection. When you’ve got the hang of entering and tracking expenses, the software’s powerful tax tools really start to work in your favor. The software uses technology to extract data from smartphone receipt photos and autofill relevant categories, potentially saving freelancers a lot of valuable time. You can set expense rules to make categorization even easier, and add receipts. (Image credit: Intuit QuickBooks Self-Employed) ![]()
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