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 "id": "quickbooks-uk",
 "name": "QuickBooks UK",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "quickbooks.intuit.com",
 "category": "Finance & Accounting",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Intuit's accounting platform for the UK market — bookkeeping, VAT and Making Tax Digital submissions, invoicing and payroll as a paid add-on.",
 "best_for": "UK sole traders and small businesses that need Making Tax Digital submissions handled and would rather their accountant worked in the same system they do — the accountant access on every tier is the practical reason most people land here",
 "skip_if": "you are outside the UK, where this specific product and pricing do not apply, or your bookkeeping is simple enough that a spreadsheet plus your accountant's own software costs nothing extra",
 "honest_knock": "The 90% offer is the number to be careful with, because it is the one you will see everywhere and it is not what you will pay. The page says six months, not a year: Sole Trader Plus shows £1 and renews at £10 a month, Plus shows £5.60 and renews at £56. That tenfold step arrives in month seven, on a tool you will by then have your entire bookkeeping inside — which is precisely when switching is hardest. Add 20% VAT on top of every figure, and add payroll separately if you need it. Budget from the list price and treat the discount as a half-year rebate, not as the price.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "£10",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month (list, plus VAT) - a six-month 90% promo brings it to £1",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "Read in a live browser on their own UK pricing page, 28 Aug 2026, in pounds. The page now shows monthly list prices and carries no annual option: Sole Trader Plus £10, Simple Start £16, Essentials £38 for three users, Plus £56 for five and Advanced £123 for twenty-five — all plus VAT at 20%. A discount was running at the time of reading and the page states its length plainly: 90% off for SIX months, not for a first year, showing those tiers as £1, £1.60, £3.80, £5.60 and £12.30 a month before the list rate applies. There is a 30-day free trial as an alternative to buying. Payroll is a paid add-on rather than part of any tier, including Advanced. The Intuit Intelligence chat is on every tier with a stated limit of queries per month. CHANGED SINCE 31 JUL 2026: on that reading the page had an annual toggle and the offer was recorded as a first-year discount; today there is no annual toggle and the offer is six months. The underlying list prices are unchanged — the annual figures noted then (£108, £172, £410.40, £604.80) are 10% off twelve times today's monthly rates — but Advanced was not recorded at all and the year-two framing no longer matches the page. Re-verified 11 October 2026 in a live browser: all five list prices, the 90%-for-six-months offer and the 30-day trial option unchanged. The offer terms on the page add that the discount requires the Buy Now option, makes you ineligible for the 30-day free trial and is for new QuickBooks Online customers only; the cancellation terms say a cancellation takes effect at the end of the monthly billing period with no pro-rated refund. The FAQ lists payroll as an add-on for Simple Start, Essentials, Plus and Advanced, not for Sole Trader Plus. A monthly query limit on Intuit Intelligence was not shown on this reading.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
  "source_url": "https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/pricing/"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Payroll is a paid add-on rather than part of any tier, including Advanced.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-11",
   "source_url": "https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "FreshBooks",
  "why": "the other small-business accounting tools we cover — QuickBooks' advantage in the UK is HMRC recognition for Making Tax Digital and how many accountants already work in it; compare on the renewal price rather than on the six-month offer"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/quickbooks-uk.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/quickbooks-uk-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/quickbooks-uk/",
  "vendor_site": "https://quickbooks.intuit.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-101832528-17250302-1771877066000",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "quickbooks-uk:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quickbooks-uk:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quickbooks-uk:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quickbooks-uk:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": {
   "what": "Local server from Intuit's own GitHub organisation, run as a stdio subprocess and published as an npm package: 144 tools across 29 entity types with full create, read, update, delete and search, plus 11 financial reports including balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. OAuth against a sandbox company or, once you have completed the production handshake, your live QuickBooks Online company.",
   "plan": "Not stated. Intuit's repository says nothing about which QuickBooks plan the server needs or whether it costs extra. Their separate Claude connector — which Intuit nowhere calls MCP — does require an active QuickBooks or Intuit Enterprise Suite subscription and is US-only for now.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://github.com/intuit/quickbooks-online-mcp-server",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}