Torchrunner vs QuickBooks

QuickBooks Online is accounting software for small businesses. US plans are Simple Start, Essentials, Plus and Advanced, with more users and features at each step: Simple Start includes 1 user, Essentials 3, Plus 5 with inventory and budgets, and Advanced 25 [1].

Torchrunner is one app for solo operators and small teams who do client work. Leads, contacts, companies and engagements sit on one record with the inbox (unlimited Gmail and Outlook accounts, plus Slack, WhatsApp, SMS, LinkedIn and Telegram), a business phone line, calendar and booking pages, projects and tasks, documents and notes, and your own books.

Archie and nine specialists do the work across those modules. Runners are automations that start on a real event and log every step. Anything that leaves the business, moves money or deletes data waits for a person's yes unless you choose otherwise.

Both handle invoicing, bank feeds and expenses for your own business.

QuickBooks is a full accounting system with reports and tax features. Torchrunner's books are built for a solo consultant living on engagements: time, invoices and bank feeds tie to the client and the engagement. Torchrunner is not trying to match every QuickBooks feature.

Your own practice's books, if you want: invoices go out through your own Stripe account from the engagement, bank feeds bring in transactions, and time tracking feeds the invoice. Many people keep both.

Your clients' QuickBooks Online connects through Intuit's official app and shows up next to their work, so you can read across several clients' books from one place.

The QuickBooks prices above are the regular monthly prices shown on its pricing page; the page also shows a 50% off offer for the first 3 months. Torchrunner's price covers the whole practice (CRM, inbox, phone, projects, documents) as well as your own books.

You need full accounting: payroll, inventory, detailed reporting, or an accountant who works in QuickBooks. Keep QuickBooks, and connect clients' files to Torchrunner if you serve them.

You are a fractional CFO, consultant or small firm, and your own books are mostly invoices, time and bank feeds tied to client engagements. You want them next to the client's email, projects and documents.

Your own practice's customers and open invoices move over during setup, and you connect your Stripe account and bank feeds. Clients' QuickBooks Online files connect from their side.

Implementation, including setup and data migration, is done by AtPace, our implementation partner, and priced by AtPace. Once you are in, your data stays yours: export your records as a ZIP at any time, or schedule backups to your own SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox.

Every QuickBooks price, limit and feature above comes from QuickBooks's own pages, opened on October 25, 2026. Vendors change prices often; check the source before you buy. Where a page did not say, we left the fact out.

• ›1. QuickBooks Online pricing: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/pricing/
• ›Torchrunner prices: https://torchrunner.ai/pricing

QuickBooks is a trademark of Intuit Inc.. Other product names belong to their owners. Torchrunner is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by QuickBooks.

• ›Torchrunner vs your whole stack: the eleven-tool stack, tool by tool
• ›Platform: every module, and Archie and the nine specialists
• ›Pricing: one plan, month to month, with worked examples
• ›Request access: access is by application