You're good at this work. You know QuickBooks cold. You've developed a rhythm: open the client file, scan the transactions, start clicking through categories. Bank feeds, credit cards, merchant accounts. One by one.
You've seen the demos. A tool ingests your bank feed, transactions appear pre-categorized, and the vendor calls it automated bookkeeping. It looks like magic until you're cleaning up 200 miscategorized transactions at month-end while your clients...
If you're managing 15+ QBO clients, you already know the math doesn't work.
Your client's bank feed shows a $3,847.92 deposit from Stripe. You open their QBO, and there's no matching transaction. Just a pile of individual sales from the past two weeks. You know what happened: Stripe batched 47 charges, subtracted...
You set up bank rules in QuickBooks for every client. Merchant ABC always maps to Office Supplies. USPS always maps to Postage. You spend a Saturday afternoon building them, and for about two weeks, things feel under control.
Every bookkeeper knows the feeling. You're 40 minutes into a reconciliation, everything looks clean, and then you hit two $49.99 transactions on the same day. Both are Slack. Or one is Slack and one is a refund from a different vendor that landed...