QuickBooks fees go up every year.
Your accounting software doesn't have to.

SlowBooks gives small businesses fast transaction classification, multi-company management, and honest pricing — without the annual surprises or the two-week migration project.

Sound familiar?

If you've used QuickBooks, you know these frustrations.

We built SlowBooks because too many small business owners are dealing with the same preventable headaches.

Price increases you never agreed to

QuickBooks has raised prices multiple times in recent years — sometimes by 20–40% — and Desktop users are now being pushed to Online subscriptions that start at $35/month and climb from there. You didn't sign up for a bill that grows every year.

"Longtime customer deeply disappointed by QuickBooks pricing" — QuickBooks community forum

The migration that was supposed to take a weekend

QuickBooks says the data transfer takes 1–3 hours. Independent accountants document 2–3 weeks for a proper migration — because payroll history arrives as lump-sum checks with no breakdown, and prior-year figures need to be re-entered by hand.

"The tool moves the data — it doesn't ensure it's correct on the other side." — CPA migration guide

Every useful feature is a separate add-on

Payroll is extra. Phone support is extra. Multi-entity management means paying for multiple subscriptions. The base product keeps shrinking while the add-on menu keeps growing. For a small business, it adds up fast.

"Ridiculous subscription price increase — forced and expensive." — QuickBooks community forum

Everything you actually need. Nothing you don't.

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Classify transactions faster

Smart classification rules and bulk actions cut through the repetitive clicking. Fewer steps, cleaner books, more time running your business.

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Multiple companies, one login

Manage all your businesses from a single account. Switch entities in one click — no extra subscriptions, no tab juggling, no separate logins.

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Consolidated financials

Income statements, balance sheets, and transactions rolled up across all your companies. The big picture, instantly — not after hours of manual reconciliation.

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Import from bank or QuickBooks

Upload CSV exports directly from your bank — Chase, Bank of America, and most major banks are supported. QBO files work too. Your transaction history lands intact, ready to classify.

One rulebook. Every company.

Set up categorization rules once — apply them across all your businesses.

When you run multiple companies, you shouldn't have to rebuild the same classification logic from scratch each time. SlowBooks lets you share a single set of rules across your entities: same vendors, same categories, consistent books — without the copy-paste and drift that comes from managing them separately.

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Define a rule once Write a classification rule for a recurring vendor or expense type, and share it with any number of your companies instantly.
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No duplication, no drift Changes to a shared rule propagate everywhere. No more wondering which company has the "right" version of a rule.
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Consistent categories across entities Consolidated reports make sense when every company categorizes the same way. Shared rules make that effortless.

Switching takes an afternoon, not two weeks.

No consultant required. No data integrity surprises. Here's exactly how it works.

Export from your bank

Download your transaction history as a CSV from your bank's website. Takes about two minutes — every major bank offers this.

Upload to SlowBooks

Our importer reads your CSV or QBO file and brings in your full transaction history. We flag anything that looks off before it lands in your books.

Verify and classify

Run your first report and confirm your balances look right. Then set up classification rules so future transactions sort themselves automatically.

QuickBooks fees go up every year.Your accounting software doesn't have to.