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Field, Company & Money · Session 18

QuickBooks & Getting Paid

GoalConnect accounting, track the paper that protects you, and bill the job through draw requests.

QuickBooks — connected, with you in control

Settings → Integrations → QuickBooks → Connect to QuickBooks signs in with your Intuit account. Five syncs are live: customers and vendors (both directions, with a dedupe review before anything links), projects (pushed as sub-customers), draw requests (an approved draw becomes one QuickBooks invoice — gross line plus a negative retainage line), and payments (invoice balances flow back and mark draws paid). Nothing moves without your review — exact matches, judgment calls, and imports each get their own explicit approval, and every action lands in a sync ledger you can read.

Contracts & insurance — the paper trail

Each project tracks its Contracts (prime, subcontracts, supply agreements — with values, statuses, and signed dates) and Insurance & Compliance — COIs, licenses, and policies per participant, flagged automatically inside 30 days of expiry and surfaced on the project's Needs Attention list.

Draw requests — billing the job

Draw Requests on each project run draft → submitted → approved → paid, with period dates and requested amounts. Approved draws are what the QuickBooks sync turns into invoices; when the payment posts in QuickBooks, the draw marks itself paid.

Sales tax stays QuickBooks' job — Tempus 7 sends the lines and lets your accounting apply the right tax, so the two systems never argue about rates.

Try it yourself

  • Connect a QuickBooks company and run the customer dedupe review.
  • Add a COI with an expiry date 20 days out and find it flagged on the project.
  • Create a draw request, approve it, and push it to QuickBooks as an invoice.

Key takeaways

  • Five QuickBooks syncs are live; every move is explicit and ledger-logged.
  • Insurance expiry is watched automatically — 30 days out, it's on your attention list.
  • Draws are the billing spine: approve in Tempus 7, invoice in QuickBooks, paid flows back.

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