Learn QBO fundamentals.At your pace.
Build practical bookkeeping confidence with clear lessons and hands-on work in a real QuickBooks Online sample company. No classroom schedule. No rush.
- 10 core chapters
- Practice in QBO
- Quizzes and exams
Start with Chapter 4 · No card or paid QBO license required
Listed by Certiport for QBCU prep · Alicia Katz Pollock · 20+ years publishing · The Sleeter Group imprint
QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step 2026
2026 edition · Online textbook
Open the free lessonQuickBooks skills for your work
For bookkeepers, business owners, career changers, and students.
Bookkeepers and office managers
You keep the books, or you are about to. Learn how an accountant actually sets these workflows up.
Small-business owners
Do your own books with confidence: invoicing, bills, bank feeds, reconciliation, and a profit and loss you can actually read.
Career changers
Build a skill employers ask for by name, with a record of graded exercises and a study path to the QuickBooks Certified User exam.
Students on their own
Using the book in a course? Sign in and your class, your progress and your teacher’s messages are on one account. Studying solo? Same book, your pace.
Learn one chapter at a time
Read the lesson, complete the exercises, and check your understanding.
Read the chapter
The concept, the accounting behind it, and screenshots of the current QuickBooks Online interface. Practice quizzes sit inside the page, so you answer where you read.
Do it in QuickBooks Online
Follow the practice steps beside the lesson to complete exercises in QuickBooks Online.
Check your understanding
Use practice quizzes and chapter exams to find the topics worth revisiting before you move on.
Keep going when it suits you
Your place and scores stay with your account, so a spare half hour or a focused afternoon both move you forward.
9 chapters that take you from first login to confident bookkeeping.
Start with the accounting basics, then build the workflows you will use for customers, vendors, banking, reconciliation, reporting, projects, inventory, year-end and payroll.
- 1Introducing QuickBooks Online
- 2Setting Up QBO
- 3Customizing QuickBooks Online
- 4Customer Sales
- 5Vendor Expenses
- 6Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
- 7Banking and Reconciliation
- 8Reports
- 9Case Study: YinYang Graphic DesignStandard only
- 10Advanced Workflows
- 11Projects and Job CostingStandard only
- 12InventoryStandard only
- 13Year-End ProceduresStandard only
- 14Payroll SetupStandard only
- 15Payroll ProcessingStandard only
- 16Capstone Project: YinYang Graphic DesignStandard only
Understand the books, not just the buttons.
- Set up a clean QuickBooks Online company
- Record sales, expenses, bills, and payments
- Work with bank feeds and reconcile accounts
- Read a profit and loss and other key reports
- Handle projects, inventory, year-end and payroll
Want to build companies of your own, through the case study and capstone? You can move up to Standard when you are ready.
See what Standard addsA study path to the QuickBooks Certified User exam.
Certiport lists the book as in line with the QuickBooks Certified User exam, and a free practice quiz shows you where you stand before you book it.
Questiva publishes QBCU exam prep, but we are an independent publisher (not Intuit), and we do not administer the exam.
- A free practice quiz, two questions per exam area
- A full timed practice exam with a per-area diagnostic
- The chapters themselves: the hands-on time the exam actually tests
Start free, then choose your pace
Try a complete customer-sales lesson first. When you are ready, get Lite, yearly or monthly.
Try Chapter 4 in Craig’s Landscaping. No card or paid QuickBooks Online license required.
Chapters 1–8 and 10 in Craig’s Landscaping. A one-time payment for a year of access; it does not renew automatically.
The same Lite course, billed monthly until you cancel.
The things people ask first
Do I need my own QuickBooks Online subscription?
Lite uses Craig’s Landscaping in the QuickBooks Online test drive, so no QuickBooks account is needed. Standard’s DIY assignments, case study and capstone need a QuickBooks Online account, and a free one works.
How long does it take?
A chapter is a few hours, not ten minutes, because it is real bookkeeping work. The full book is a term’s worth of material. Go at your own pace: with a free account your place, your notes and your scores are saved wherever you sign in.
Is it current with the 2026 QuickBooks Online interface?
Yes. This is the 2026 edition. New editions reflect material changes to QuickBooks Online, and the practice steps are reviewed as the product changes.
Do I need accounting experience?
No. Chapter 1 starts with the accounting equation, debits and credits, and the QuickBooks Online interface. If you already keep books, skip ahead; the chapter exams will tell you what you missed.
What is free?
Try Chapter 4 in Craig’s Landscaping. Lite is $34.95/month or $114.95 a year; Standard is $59.95/month or $179.95 a year.
Can I get certified?
Certiport lists the book as in line with the QuickBooks Certified User exam, and a free practice quiz shows you where you stand. We are an independent publisher, not Intuit, and we do not administer the exam.
I am in a class that uses this book. Is this the same thing?
Yes. Join your teacher’s class from your account and your progress, exams and messages land in one place. Same reader, same book; the class just adds a teacher who can see how you are doing.
Try a customer-sales lesson.
Practice Chapter 4 in Craig’s Landscaping, then keep learning whenever it fits your schedule.