Objective:
- Reduce double data entry in Clio by importing your incurred expenses from QuickBooks Online with the hard cost import setting.
Environment:
- Clio Manage
- QuickBooks Online
Additional Information:
- This feature is only available with QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced Plans.
- You must turn on the hard/soft cost setting in order to use this feature.
- The user assigned to the expense entry in Clio automatically defaults to the Primary Subscriber. The Expense entry can be edited in Clio to change the user.
- This setting will aggregate multiple expenses on a single check in Quickbooks Online into one expense entry in Clio.
- Only Expense and Check transaction types from QuickBooks Online will be imported into Clio.
- The Contact associated with the hard cost must also have a matter created in Clio.
Disclaimers:
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Procedure:
In Quickbooks Online
The "track by customer" setting needs to be turned on in Quickbooks Online in order for this feature to work.
- Click the settings gear icon
- Click Account and Settings
- Click Expenses
- Click on the "Bills and expenses" area and turn on "Track expenses and items by customer"
- Click Save
- Click Done
In Clio
- In your Clio account, under Settings → Bill Syncing → Connect to QuickBooks Online → Configure Sync Settings → you can find the ‘Import hard costs’ setting.
- Choose a specific date to have this sync start.
- This sync date can be changed after the initial setup if you would like to import from a different date moving forwards.
- Choose an account that the hard costs should import from, that was originally created in QuickBooks Online.
- Save sync settings.
In QuickBooks Online
- Create an expense in QuickBooks Online, make sure that the category you select in QuickBooks Online matches the one selected in Clio. (eg. Reimbursable Expenses) within ‘Category Details’ as illustrated below.
Please note: "Item details" are not supported by Hard Cost import. Ensure all expense information is input under the "Category Details".
QuickBooks Online
Clio
In Clio
- You will now be able to see the expense within the ‘Activities’ table in Clio.