How it works
Ten minutes to set up. Then it just arrives.
Connect a client's QuickBooks
Intuit's standard OAuth. Thirty seconds per client, no bank credentials, no data entry.
Confirm their targets
We pull budgets straight from QuickBooks. If there aren't any, type monthly targets into a simple table.
Set who gets it, and when
Up to five recipients per client business plus five of your own. Weekly, or daily on the days you pick.
The status logic
Three colours, one rule, no interpretation needed.
Every category is measured against a prorated target — monthly budget divided by days in the month, times days elapsed. So week two is judged against week two, not against the whole month.
Contractors · March, day 17 of 31
Built for accountants
Fifty clients. One roster. Nothing to chase.
Connect each client's QuickBooks once and Budget Canary handles the rest. Add up to five recipients per client business so owners get their own copy of the same numbers, the same week you do.
Questions
The ones we get asked first.
Still unsure? Reply to any email and a human answers — there are only a few of us.
Never. Budget Canary connects to QuickBooks Online through Intuit's standard OAuth flow, so your banking credentials never touch us. Intuit publishes a single accounting scope and it covers reading and writing — there's no read-only version to ask for. We only ever read: Budget Canary requests reports and budgets and nothing else, and never moves money or edits your books.
Find out on the 17th, not the 31st.
Connect QuickBooks, confirm your targets, and get your first digest this Sunday.
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