CSV to QBO does not map expense/income account and/or classes

QBO (Web Connect) format that Quickbooks imports is a format you would download from your bank. Your bank provides details about your transactions (date, amount, payee, check number), but does not know about your accounting (is Staples purchase should be "Office supplies" or "Computer hardware"), only you as accountant/bookkeeper working with transactions for specific company would know.

Considering details above, CSV2QBO converter allows to map the following transaction details from CSV to QBO:

• date


• amount (negative for withdrawals/expenses and positive for deposits/payments to the account)


• payee (Quickbooks shows this as "Downloaded as" because your bank does not provide exact vendor name as you have in Quickbooks, for example, it could "Shell #123" that you match to Shell vendor name


• memo (additional details if present), look for "show memo text" checkbox in Quickbooks to see this field


• check number

Quickbooks provides several tools to match imported through QBO file transactions to vendor records and assign expense/income accounts:

• expense/income account info is populated on matched transaction from matched vendor record. It is a good idea to assign expense/income accounts on vendor records (as the most used ones for specific vendor) as it saves you time on assigning accounts on transactions


• Quickbooks remembers your choices for selected vendor record for specific payee ("downloaded as") name. You should need to match vendors to specific payee names from a QBO file just one time


• You may use renaming rules to assign vendor records and do other things like account assignment or class assignment