Connect to QuickBooks Online with Power BI.; 2 minutes to read +1; In this article. When you connect to your QuickBooks Online data from Power BI you immediately get a Power BI dashboard and Power BI reports that provide insights about your business cash flow, profitability, customers, and more. Get started with QuickBooks web connector. The QuickBooks Web Connector (QBWC) is a Microsoft Windows application that that enables web services (web-based applications) to exchange data with QuickBooks Desktop products (including QuickBooks Financial Software and QuickBooks Point of Sale).
-->When you connect to your QuickBooks Online data from Power BI you immediately get a Power BI dashboard and Power BI reports that provide insights about your business cash flow, profitability, customers, and more. Use the dashboard and reports as they are, or customize them to highlight the information you care most about. The data is refreshed automatically once a day.
Connect to the QuickBooks Online template app for Power BI.
Note
To import your QuickBooks Online data into Power BI, you need to be an admin on your QuickBooks Online account and sign in with your admin account credentials. You can't use this connector with QuickBooks Desktop software.
How to connect
- Select Apps in the left navigation pane > select Get apps in the upper-right corner.
- In AppSource, select the Apps tab, and search for the service you want.
- Select QuickBooks Online, then select Get.
- In Install this Power BI app? select Install.
- In the Apps pane, select the QuickBooks tile.
- In Get started with your new app, select Connect.
- Select oAuth2 for Authentication Method and select Sign In.
- When prompted, enter your QuickBooks Online credentials and follow the QuickBooks Online authentication process. If you are already signed in to QuickBooks Online in your browser, you may not be prompted for credentials.NoteYou need admin credentials for your QuickBooks Online account.
- Select the company you would like to connect to Power BI in the next screen.
- Select Authorize in the next screen to begin the import process. The process can take a few minutes depending on the size of your company data.
- After Power BI imports the data, you see the content list for your QuickBooks app: a new dashboard, report, and dataset.
- Select the QuickBooks dashboard to start the exploration process. Power BI created this dashboard automatically to display your imported data.
What now?
- Try asking a question in the Q&A box at the top of the dashboard
- Change the tiles in the dashboard.
- Select a tile to open the underlying report.
- While your dataset will be scheduled to refresh daily, you can change the refresh schedule or try refreshing it on demand using Refresh Now
Troubleshooting
'Oops! An error has occurred'
If you get this message after selecting Authorize:
“Oops! An error has occurred.' Close this window and try again.
The application has already been subscribed to by another user for this company. Contact [admin email] to make changes to this subscription.”
... this error means another admin in your company has already connected to your company data with Power BI. Ask that admin to share the dashboard with you. Currently, only one admin user can connect a particular QuickBooks Online company dataset to Power BI. After Power BI creates the dashboard, the admin can share it with multiple colleagues on the same Power BI tenants.
'This app is not set up to allow connections from your country'
Currently Power BI only supports US editions of QuickBooks Online.