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QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step

Learn QuickBooks.
Put it to work.

Lessons on sales, expenses, banking and reports, then the same work in a real QuickBooks Online company.

Learning on your own?

Work through the book at your own pace, practicing in Craig’s Landscaping.

Self-paced learning

Teaching a class?

A ready-made course: the textbook, a class dashboard and smart-graded QuickBooks work.

For teachers

Training your team?

Seats for your staff, with everyone’s progress on one screen.

For firms & teams

What’s included

Quizzes and exams after each chapter, a smart grader for your QuickBooks work, and QBCU exam prep.

Interactive eBook

The textbook in your browser, with screenshots and practice steps right beside each lesson. Updated throughout the year.

Quizzes & Exams

A practice quiz ends every chapter and explains each answer. Then a chapter exam checks what stuck.

Smart Grader

Instant feedback on the work you do in QuickBooks Online, so you catch mistakes while you practice. Most graded assignments are in Standard.

Certification

QBCU Certification Prep

Practice for the QuickBooks Certified User exam: a free quiz, a timed practice exam and skills assessments.

About QBCU prep
Certification prep

Get ready for the QBCU exam.

The QuickBooks Certified User credential shows employers you can use QuickBooks Online. Certiport lists this book as in line with the exam.

Study
The interactive textbook
Practice
Hands-on work in QuickBooks Online
Check
Chapter quizzes and exams
Test yourself
QBCU practice exams

Same book. Two ways to practice.

Both use the same online textbook, updated throughout the year. The difference is the QuickBooks company you practice in.

Lite

Practice in Craig’s Landscaping, Intuit’s free QuickBooks Online sample company. Nothing extra to buy.

$114.95for 12 months

or $34.95 a month
  • Chapters 1–8 plus two bonus chapters
  • Practice in the free sample company
  • No QuickBooks account needed
Best for classes & teams

Standard

Build your own company files from scratch, in your own QuickBooks Online account.

$179.95for 12 months

or $59.95 a month
  • Everything in Lite
  • Adds chapters 9 and 11–16: the YinYang Graphic Design case study, job costing, inventory, year-end, payroll and the capstone
  • Every end-of-chapter Do It Yourself assignment

Requires a class invite from your teacher or your own QuickBooks Online account. A free one works.

Yearly access is a one-time payment and does not renew automatically; monthly access renews until canceled. Add the printed E-Learning Companion to either edition for $60.

Compare Lite and Standard in detail
Alicia Katz Pollock

Written by Alicia Katz Pollock

QuickBooks Online expert, Top 10 ProAdvisor, and educator with a master’s in teaching. Alicia writes the textbooks published under The Sleeter Group imprint, with more than 20 years of QuickBooks publishing history.

Try a customer-sales lesson.

Chapter 4 is free to read in your browser. No sign-up, nothing to install.