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Connect QuickBooks to your HoneyBook Balance account
Connect QuickBooks to your HoneyBook Balance account

Connect your accounts to view transaction data (like HoneyBook Balance VISA Debit card purchases) in QuickBooks.

Updated over 2 months ago

Save time, minimize errors, and keep your books up to date by connecting your HoneyBook Balance account with QuickBooks Online. This connection will automatically send your HoneyBook Balance transaction and money transfer data to QuickBooks.

You will complete this connection in QuickBooks, though you will need some of your HoneyBook Balance account's information. Along with this, if you'd like to send transaction fee data to QuickBooks, use the standard QuickBooks integration.


Connect your account to QuickBooks

You'll complete this next set of steps in QuickBooks. A general video walkthrough from QuickBook on how to connect your account is available, but there are some steps that are specific to connecting your HoneyBook Balance account that you'll only find below.

  1. Open QuickBooks Online and log into your account

  2. In the left navigation menu, select Bookkeeping > select Transaction

    1. If Bookkeeping is not an option, select Banking > select Banking

  3. Select Connect Account

    1. If you've already connected an different account to QuickBooks, select Link Account instead

  4. Search for "HoneyBook" and select the option that appears

  5. Enter your HoneyBook company phone number

    1. To locate the company phone number linked to your HoneyBook Balance account select your profile icon > select Company Settings

  6. Enter the code sent to the phone number that you entered

  7. Select the account that appears

  8. Choose how far back you want to pull transactions from your HoneyBook Balance account

  9. For the account type select Checking

  10. Optionally, enter a new account name

    1. This will be the account's name in QuickBooks

  11. Select Connect

  12. QuickBooks will begin importing and categorizing transactions from the date you selected

    1. You'll be asked to categorize any transactions that QuickBooks isn't able to identify


Check that you connected your account successfully

Once you've successfully connected your HoneyBook Balance account to QuickBooks, the account you connected will appear on the Bank transactions screen.

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Now QuickBooks can track whenever you spend money with your HBF card and any time money is transferred into or out of your HBF bank account. You can view these on the Bank transactions tab of the Transactions screen.

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From here, QuickBooks recommends you categorize and confirm the transactions in their platform. Learn how to categorize transactions in QuickBooks.

If you don't see any transactions in QuickBooks, confirm in your HoneyBook Balance account that any transactions you were expecting to see in QuickBooks are not still pending. Any pending transactions in HBF will not appear in QuickBooks until they finish processing.

Still have questions? Feel free to send us a message by clicking the Question Mark icon on any HoneyBook page. Our team is always happy to help!

HoneyBook is a software company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Lincoln Savings Bank, Member FDIC. HoneyBook Visa Debit cards are issued by Lincoln Savings Bank, Member FDIC. HoneyBook is not FDIC insured. FDIC insurance only covers the failure of an insured bank.

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