Some of our customers choose to do so, mainly because they have only a handful of employees and believe the manual transference of data between the two platforms to not be too much of a hassle. If you choose to use a time keeping app to keep track of employee hours and transfer that information to QuickBooks without an integration like the one Buddy Punch offers, you’ll have to do it manually.
Click on ‘Sync Employees’.įor a more in-depth help doc article of how to set up Buddy Punch’s QuickBooks Online integration, click here. You’ll now see that you’re connected to QuickBooks Online. Navigate back to Buddy Punch’s integrations page. You’ll be prompted to sign in to your QuickBooks Online account.ĥ. Once on the integration page, click ‘Connect to QuickBooks’. Click on the button next to the QuickBooks logo that reads ‘Integrate with QuickBooks Online’.ģ. Log-in to the Buddy Punch platform using your administrator account and find our ‘Integrations’ page.Ģ. To set up Buddy Punch’s QuickBooks Online Integration, follow these steps:ġ. How to Set Up Buddy Punch’s QuickBooks Online Integration This, as mentioned earlier, is not an issue when using QuickBooks Desktop. Note: One drawback to our integration (though not inherent to Buddy Punch, but instead to QuickBooks Online) is that it does not support the transfer of time off data from one platform to the other. Map the relevant payroll items that you would like to be transferred to QuickBooks Desktop: While you can read a more detailed overview here, at a basic level, here’s how this integration works: Put simply, if you tag your employees’ hours by locations, departments or positions, and use our QuickBooks Desktop integration, Buddy Punch will match those categories to their QuickBooks Desktop equivalents when sending information between one platform and the other.
QuickBooks Desktop also allows you to segment your employees’ hours by Customer Job Classes, which mirror Buddy Punch’s own Locations, Departments and Positions categories. This includes regular worked hours and time off information. The benefits of using QuickBooks Desktop with Buddy Punch are clear: instead of inputting payroll information manually, you can send it all from Buddy Punch to QuickBooks Desktop with the push of a button, and have it populate in real-time.
Many businesses still use QuickBooks Desktop instead of its online counterpart mainly because they’ve already paid for the software once, and do not wish to move to a monthly or yearly billing format inherent to QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks Desktop is the legacy version of QuickBooks, before the software went fully online. Buddy Punch’s QuickBooks Desktop Integration One thing worth noting: The reviews above don’t mention that Buddy Punch integrates with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, so no matter which version of QuickBooks your company uses to handle payroll, we’ve got you covered.