A real chart of accounts, entries that balance, statements that reconcile: you wanted actual accounting for your own money, and you were right to. The only thing wrong is the container, because QuickBooks keeps books per company, and you are not a company.
No bank linking. Your whole General Ledger imports. Export it anytime.
Most people track their money in apps that guess at categories and call it a day. You put yours in a real ledger instead, because you wanted reconciliation, statements, and numbers with working underneath them. Nothing on this page argues with that choice. The question this page answers is narrower: is software built to run a company the right container for an owner’s life?
Here is the shape of the answer: what QuickBooks structurally is, the two different ways people pair it with Marked Money, what carries over, and what stays QuickBooks work. In that order, including the parts that don’t flatter us.
QuickBooks is built around one organizing fact: a subscription keeps the books of one company. That is the right shape for a business, and none of what follows disputes it. It is the wrong shape for an owner, because an owner is not a company. You are a household, maybe a rental or two, maybe an LLC that holds property, and one net worth underneath all of it.
Held to the company shape, your personal books become a pretend business: a profit and loss that thinks groceries are cost of goods, customer and vendor framing wrapped around money that has neither, and another per-company subscription every time your life adds an entity. Marked Money’s unit is the owner: every set of books you keep, personal and entities, in one place, rolling into one net worth.
These books need a register, reconciliation, and honest statements. The invoicing, payables, inventory and payroll machinery sits unused while the per-company meter runs. Here, each one gets its own real books, with the Schedule E or Schedule C summary its return preparation wants, stated as capability rather than advice.
Your personal books were never a company at all. They get the same accounting discipline in plain language: money in, money out, statements that reconcile, months that lock once they’re settled, and a year you can actually close.
Entity books connect to your personal books and roll up, so the question a per-company tool structurally cannot answer, what is all of this worth together, has a number with the working shown.
A real operating company stays in QuickBooks, and this page says so plainly: invoicing runs, payables, payroll, inventory are company machinery, and that machinery is why you bought it. What Marked Money adds is the layer that machinery was never built for: the company as it reaches you. Your equity, your distributions, the K-1 you receive tracked with its basis, sitting beside your household books and your other entities in one net worth.
QuickBooks keeps a company’s books. Marked Money keeps an owner’s.
And the seat your accountant has in QuickBooks exists here too: your accountant can hold a seat on the owner’s books, view-only until you say otherwise, editing only when you allow it, with every change they make kept in History under their name.
The QuickBooks General Ledger import brings the whole history: your accounts, your entries, a year at a time, oldest first. It has been production-tested on a real multi-year ledger, and you review what was found before anything posts. If it doesn’t look right, nothing is saved.
If the books you mean to move are a real operating company’s, keep them where they are and add the owner’s layer beside them. I’d rather say that here than have you discover it in week three.
QuickBooks is priced per company, so the bill scales with how many sets of books your life needs. Marked Money is priced per owner: one subscription covers every book you keep, and it’s free during the beta.
At today’s list, QuickBooks Online runs $38 to $340 a month, for each company, before payroll (Intuit’s published pricing, checked August 8, 2026).
The first 100 accounts get a founding-member price, locked for as long as you keep your account. The price itself is stated on the front page. You’ll never be charged without explicitly choosing to pay, and you can take your books with you at any time.
Export the General Ledger with all accounts, one year at a time, and upload it oldest year first. You review every account and entry before anything posts. If it doesn’t look right, nothing is saved.
The first 100 accounts get a founding-member price, locked.
Coming from Quicken instead? That page is here. And the Learn essays explain the accounting decisions underneath.