QuickBooks is software you work in. LedgerHQ is software that works.

Yes. LedgerHQ is a full double-entry bookkeeping system — chart of accounts, journal entries, registers, bank reconciliation, period locks, and financial statements — designed for firms managing many client companies rather than for a single business. The practical difference from QuickBooks Online is that routine work is performed by Tally, an AI bookkeeper writing to the ledger, and that the product is organized around a firm rather than around one company file.

One step: delivering bank and card transactions to a screen. Coding those transactions, resolving the ones that are unclear, chasing clients for missing information, posting accruals and adjusting entries, reconciling accounts to statements, checking the work, and producing financials are all still performed by a person. That is the gap LedgerHQ closes.

No. QuickBooks Online is organized around one company file at a time, and QuickBooks Online Accountant gives firms a client list rather than a queryable view of every client's books. Firms typically rebuild that answer in spreadsheets. LedgerHQ keeps every managed company under one firm workspace, so a question like "which clients still have uncoded activity over $1,000" is answered in the product.

QuickBooks has an API, but reaching production requires an Intuit developer account and app review, and there is no supported path for a firm's own AI assistant to simply connect and work. LedgerHQ ships a documented REST API under an OpenAPI specification plus an MCP server as part of the product, so agents and internal systems work against the same books your staff use, under the same permissions.

Agree a cutoff date, export the Chart of Accounts and Journal report CSVs from QuickBooks at the same moment, upload both to LedgerHQ and review the validation preview before anything posts, then reconnect the client's bank accounts through Plaid from the cutoff forward. Because billing is per active company, most firms move one client first and run it in parallel with QuickBooks for a close.

No. Keep QuickBooks for the clients you have not moved and for read-only history. The two run alongside each other for as long as you want.

It depends entirely on where the AI operates. Tally works through the same accounting services as your staff, which means balanced entries, enforced period locks, company-scoped access, no visibility into bank credentials, and a record on every entry showing that Tally rather than a person created it. Familiar activity moves automatically; new vendors, ambiguous transfers, and incomplete evidence stay queued for a human. An AI that posts everything is not faster — it is a cleanup project scheduled for later.