QuickBooks Online for bookkeepers: banking, bills, invoices and reconciliation
Everyday QuickBooks Online work for bookkeepers and office staff: choosing between invoices, sales receipts, bills, checks and expenses; paying bills with the bill payment feature; recording invoice payments without duplicating income; reviewing downloaded bank transactions (match versus categorize), bank rules and receipts; and monthly reconciliation, including the Reconcile Discrepancy Report and the audit log.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- QuickBooks Online
Skills you'll practise
- Choose between an invoice, sales receipt, bill, check and expense for a given transaction
- Pay an existing bill with the bill payment feature instead of a check or expense
- Decide whether a downloaded bank transaction should be matched or categorized
- Set up a bank rule and explain the risk of rules that add transactions automatically
- Upload a receipt and match it to an existing transaction or create a new expense
- Reconcile an account to a zero difference and use the discrepancy report and audit log when a past reconciliation changes
Course outline
- 1.QuickBooks Online for bookkeepersVideo · 2 min
- 2.Sales and purchases: the right form for each jobLesson · 16 min
- 3.Banking: match, categorize, rules and receiptsLesson · 17 min
- 4.Reconciling and tracing changesLesson · 17 min
- 5.QuickBooks Online for bookkeepers: banking, bills, invoices and reconciliation: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- QuickBooks Online help: Categorize and match online bank transactions in QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Online help: How to use bank rules in QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Online help: Upload receipts and bills to QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks help: Learn the difference between bills, checks, and expenses in QuickBooks
- QuickBooks help: Understand the difference between invoices, sales receipts, bills, and statements
- QuickBooks Online help: Record invoice payments in QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Online help: Reconcile an account in QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Online help: Fix issues at the end of a reconciliation in QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Online help: Fix issues for accounts you reconciled in the past (Reconcile Discrepancy Report, audit log)
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