Their $20 plan won't let your accountant in
Intuit's own plan cards say it twice. Free: "No accountant access." Lite, at $20: "No accountant access." To hand your CPA a login you move up to Simple Start at $38.
ExpenseGhost is $16, and the accountant packet ships on every plan. A trial balance mapped to the tax line, prior-year columns, the general ledger, a formatted workbook, and the receipts sitting behind all of it. Your CPA opens a folder, not a panic.
Built for one owner, forever
Solopreneur is, in Intuit's words, "built specifically for single‑owner, self‑employed businesses." Their expert filing spells the ceiling out plainly: "Customers who are S-Corp or Partnerships do not qualify for this service at this time."
Which is fine, right up until you elect S-corp. Then you're migrating, and you're re-keying a year of history into a heavier product on Intuit's schedule.
ExpenseGhost runs the same books from sole prop through C-corp. Elect S-corp and your packet starts carrying a DRAFT 1120-S with the shareholder K-1s. Same books underneath, different form on top.
What filing actually costs over there
Solopreneur's expert filing is real and it works. It's also a separate purchase: "Costs start from $169," stacked on the $20 you already pay.
ExpenseGhost drafts your Schedule C and your SE tax, stamped DRAFT until a human files it. Take that to TurboTax, H&R Block, FreeTaxUSA, TaxAct, or the CPA you already trust. Nobody owns your exit.
On QuickBooks Self-Employed
Still on QBSE? Intuit has moved on. Their help doc asks "Can I still buy QuickBooks Self-Employed?" and then declines to answer it: "If you're a new customer, we encourage you to check out our other product options, such as QuickBooks Solopreneur." The mobile app stopped being downloadable after March 24, 2024, though if you'd already installed it, it stays in your library.
So the live comparison is Solopreneur, and that's the one above.
Switching from QuickBooks
Your whole history comes with you, mapped the way your tax form expects.
Export from QuickBooks and drop the file into the import wizard. It reads straight past Intuit's title rows and lands every transaction on its real Schedule C box. QuickBooks' own category names never lined up cleanly with the IRS lines. Here, your imported January looks the way April will.
Already on Solopreneur? Your vendor and customer lists come over too. Vendors arrive as your 1099 roster, ready to collect W-9s and prep their 1099-NECs. Customers land as invoice contacts.
- Export from QuickBooks: the transactions CSV, plus your vendor and customer lists.
- Connect your bank through Plaid so new activity keeps flowing in.
- Drop the files into the import wizard and check the preview.
- Spot-check the first week or two of auto-classification.
- Cancel QuickBooks after a month of overlap.
Want the full walkthrough? Here's how to import from QuickBooks, step by step.
What ExpenseGhost ships
The parts of bookkeeping you actually dread, handled. Your bank feeds in through Plaid. Receipts go in by email forward or web upload, get read, and match themselves to the right transaction. Every expense lands on a specific Schedule C line, and a live self-employment tax estimate runs all year, stamped DRAFT until a human files. When you're ready, an accountant handoff packet is one click, any day of the year.
ExpenseGhost provides tax estimates and tax-ready exports. We are not a tax preparer and do not file returns. Estimates are informational. Verify every number with a licensed tax professional before filing.