Giving other users access to your QuickBooks data

The ability to give other users access to your data is one of the many benefits of using QBO. With the exception of QBO Advanced, which includes three accountant users, the other QBO subscriptions include access for two accountant users and access for one or more additional users. There are five types of users that you can create in QBO:

• Standard user
• Company administrator
• Reports-only
• Time tracking
• Accountant

We will discuss each of these in more detail in the following subsections.

Standard user

You can give the standard user full or limited access to your QBO data, excluding administrative privileges. You can choose to give the standard user full access, access to customers and vendors, access to customers only, or access to vendors only.

Go through the following steps to create a standard user:

1. From the gear icon, select Manage users in the YOUR COMPANY column,...