Nella for QuickBooks

What it reads

What Nella reads from QuickBooks

• Monthly profit and loss, by section and by account
• Balance sheet, plus QuickBooks’ own trial balance report
• Your full chart of accounts, read in a single query
• General ledger detail down to transaction level, including manual journal entries
• Receivables and payables position, with an ageing view of who owes you what
• Cleared and uncleared bank transactions, so unreconciled items are visible rather than silent
• Company settings, including your fiscal year end
• Vendor payments for the year, with card payments shown separately and QuickBooks’ 1099 vendor flag, for the 1099-NEC review list

Nella connects to QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks Desktop is a different product and is not supported. Because QuickBooks exposes journal entries to connected apps, Nella can see manual journals here that are not visible on some other ledgers — useful when a figure moved because of an adjustment rather than a transaction. QuickBooks account numbers are optional and often left blank, so Nella keys on the account itself rather than a number that may not exist. For 1099-NEC, Nella lists every vendor paid in the year from payments, not unpaid bills, with card payments separated. A vendor QuickBooks has not marked for 1099 but whose non-card payments reach the threshold is listed and flagged.

In practice

Questions you can ask

• “How much cash will I have at the end of next month?”
• “Which customers owe me the most, and how late are they?”
• “What journals were posted this month, and by whom?”
• “What is my gross margin this quarter versus last?”
• “When is my next Form 941 due?”
• “How much is still sitting unreconciled in the bank account?”
• “Which vendors were paid enough this year to be on my 1099-NEC list?”

Nella provides financial information and education, not accounting or tax advice.

Setup

How to connect QuickBooks

The boundary

What Nella cannot do in QuickBooks

There is a fixed list of things Nella does not do in QuickBooks — not as a setting you could change, but because the permission is never requested.

• Create, edit, void or delete invoices, bills, credit notes or journal entries
• Match or reconcile bank transactions, or change how anything is categorized
• File anything with the IRS, the Social Security Administration or a state tax agency
• Move money, pay a supplier or set up a payment
• Change your chart of accounts, company settings or user permissions

More detail on the security and data page.