Books that keep themselves, for used-car dealers

It can, or it can feed it. The owner picks where the books of record live under Settings, Accounting. Keep them in AutoDealer and you get the Transactions list, your bank, the statements and the chart of accounts here. Keep them in QuickBooks Online and every entry posts there automatically once the owner connects it, on any plan. Either way the statements are management basis, so your accountant still reviews them and handles your taxes.

Yes, on Pro and Max. The owner connects it through Plaid, read only, from Bank connections at the top of Transactions. Its transactions arrive in the same list to review. If your books of record are in QuickBooks, the bank feed lives there instead, so the bank area here is hidden once QuickBooks is connected.

No. On a bank line it suggests a category, such as AI: Fuel · Record, and asks when it is not sure. It is never sure about deposits, auction purchases, floor plan or loan payments, or money moving between your own accounts. On Pro and Max the assistant can also answer questions from your books and prepare an expense or a journal entry as a card. Nothing is recorded until a person presses, and the AI work counts toward your monthly AI allowance.

Yes. Give them the Accounting role: they can open Books, review and categorize bank lines, and download the Deals, Payments and Gross CSVs and the QuickBooks file. Every row has an accountant view with its debits and credits, and the statements print. Salespeople cannot open Books.

Every plan posts the entries, shows the Transactions list and the statements, and can connect QuickBooks Online. Pro and Max add bank connections, recording your own expenses and journal entries, and the AI accountant. On Basic nothing records rent, payroll or utilities, so the Profit & Loss overstates profit, and the page says so.

Fix what it came from. Change the deal, the payment or the car and the books post a dated correcting entry, so a month your bookkeeper already closed never changes underneath them. What you added yourself can be deleted, and it stops counting in its own month.

The Balance Sheet links to a guided opening-balances entry that fills in the usual shape: bank balance, cars at cost, notes outstanding, loans, and the equity that makes it balance. Date it the day before your first activity here. If QuickBooks already holds those balances, leave them there so nothing counts twice.

No. It is management basis: a sale is recognized when it happens, collections as cash, and BHPH interest as it is collected. The statements are not audited GAAP statements and the schedules are not a trial balance. They tell you how the store is doing; your accountant signs off on the books you file.