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QuickBooks in Claude, across all your companies

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A QuickBooks connector lets an AI assistant read one company's books. If you run several companies, the question you actually ask is about the group: what did we make last month, all together, without counting the money we moved between ourselves? SigmaClose's MCP server gives your assistant those numbers, already combined.

One company per connection

Intuit's own QuickBooks connector for Claude connects one QuickBooks company: you pick the company when you set it up. It reads reports such as the profit and loss and balance sheet, and it can also create invoices and estimates. Intuit's Labs beta connector lets you switch between companies within one conversation, and Pilot's Meridian connector can hold several companies at once for booking intercompany journal entries. As of November 2026, none of them describes combining companies into one set of statements with the intercompany amounts taken out.

Ask an assistant with single-company connections for the group's October profit, and it has to sign in to each company, pull each report, line the accounts up, find the intercompany fees, loans and investments, take both sides out, and add up what's left. It may get it right. It won't do it the same way twice, and you can't see its working.

What SigmaClose's MCP server gives the assistant

  • Combined statements. Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow for any month, quarter, year to date or custom range, with a column per company, an Eliminations column and the total.
  • The eliminations, done the same way every month. The pairs you confirmed, removed in full, with any difference posted to a balancing account in Equity where it can be seen.
  • Explanations. Which companies and accounts make up a line, how two months compare, and when a pair's two sides stopped matching.
  • Month-end checks. Pairs that don't net to zero, a balance sheet that doesn't balance, cash that doesn't agree with the bank, new accounts nobody has checked, connections that dropped.
  • Suggested pairs, for you to confirm. The assistant can look for intercompany accounts and send you a link; nothing changes until a person clicks Add.

Every tool only reads. SigmaClose stores monthly totals per account, not individual transactions, so for "which entry caused this?" the assistant can tell you the month and the accounts to look at in QuickBooks.

Questions it answers well

  • "What drove the group's expenses up in October?"
  • "Is November ready to close? What's still open?"
  • "Why doesn't Holdings' investment in Retail cancel out this month?"
  • "Compare this quarter with the same quarter last year, by company."

Connecting it

  1. Set up SigmaClose

    Sign in with Google, connect each QuickBooks Online company and confirm the elimination pairs. It's free to try, with 5 refreshes per QuickBooks company and no card.

  2. Add the connector to your assistant

    In Claude.ai or ChatGPT, add a custom connector with the address https://sigmaclose.com/mcp. In Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http sigmaclose https://sigmaclose.com/mcp.

  3. Sign in and approve

    Your assistant sends you to SigmaClose to sign in and approve read-only access to your group. Then ask away.

Questions

Can Claude read my QuickBooks?

Yes, through an MCP connector: a small server that gives Claude tools to read your books. A QuickBooks connector signs in to one QuickBooks company and lets Claude look up its reports and transactions. For several companies, you need something that reads all of them and combines them first, which is what SigmaClose's MCP server does.

What is an MCP server?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard way AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT connect to outside tools. An MCP server offers a list of tools, for example 'get the balance sheet for October', and the assistant calls them when it needs the data. You add one in your assistant's settings and approve the sign-in.

Can Claude see all my QuickBooks companies at once?

Not with a single-company QuickBooks connection: each company is its own sign-in, and the assistant would have to add the numbers up and remove the intercompany amounts itself, every time. SigmaClose's MCP server hands the assistant statements that are already combined, with a column per company, an Eliminations column and the total.

Can the assistant change my books through SigmaClose?

No. Every SigmaClose tool only reads, and SigmaClose only ever sends read requests to QuickBooks. An assistant can suggest an elimination pair, but a person confirms it on the Eliminations page before it changes any statement.

How much does it cost?

The MCP server comes with SigmaClose: $20 a month or $200 a year per group, any number of companies and people. It's free to try, with 5 refreshes per QuickBooks company and no card. Your assistant's own subscription is separate.