### [How to Integrate QuickBooks Online With Your WordPress Forms](https://wpforms.com/how-to-automatically-add-a-quickbooks-customer-from-your-wordpress-forms-2/)

**Published:** August 7, 2017
**Author:** Molly Tyler

**Excerpt:** Want to create new customers in Quickbooks whenever someone fills out a form on your WordPress site? Automating your bookkeeping process can help you avoid missing payments and get your money sooner. In this tutorial, we show you how to integrate WordPress with Quickbooks Online using WPForms and the Zapier addon.

**Content:**

Do you want to automatically add your customers from your WordPress forms to your favorite accounting software, QuickBooks?

With WPForms, you can easily integrate your online forms with QuickBooks so you don’t have to add your customers manually, which can be a great time saver.

In this article, we’ll explain how to integrate QuickBooks Online to your WordPress forms.

### Does WordPress Integrate With Quickbooks?

Yes, you can integrate Quickbooks Online with WordPress to automatically add customers to your Quickbooks database.

![Quickbooks Online](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/quickbooks-online.png)

QuickBooks is accounting software for small business that comes with tons of features like online bank syncing, custom invoicing, and more. Adding your customer details to QuickBooks allows you to easily create and send custom invoices to your customers.

With Quickbooks, you can also create a profit or loss statement and statement of cash flows. As it can do many simple bookkeeping tasks automatically, it saves your time on bookkeeping and paperwork.

## How to Integrate Quickbooks Online With Your WordPress Forms

The easiest way to automatically add customers to Quickbooks is to use WPForms and its Zapier addon. This will let you build a custom order form for your WordPress site and connect it to Quickbooks Online to automatically send customer information to your bookkeeping program.

### Step 1: Install and Activate WPForms

To add your customers to QuickBooks from a WordPress form, the first thing you need to do is to install and activate the [WPForms](https://wpforms.com/) plugin.

![The WPForms homepage showing 1300 templates](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WPForms1300Templates.png)

Here’s a step-by-step guide on [how to install a WordPress plugin](http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin-for-beginners/) if you need some additional help.

In order to import contacts into QuickBooks from your form, you’ll also need to install and activate [Zapier addon](https://wpforms.com/addons/zapier-addon/) on your site.

The Zapier addon lets you connect your WordPress forms to over 7,000+ web apps, including the QuickBooks app.

In your WordPress admin area, go to **WPForms » Addons**.

![Accessing the WPForms addons screen](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/wpforms-addons.png)

Then find the Zapier addon and click **Install Addon**.

![Installing the Zapier addon](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/zapier-install-addon.png)

For more help with this step, you can check out our tutorial on [how to install and use the Zapier addon](https://wpforms.com/docs/how-to-install-and-use-zapier-addon-with-wpforms/).

### Step 2: Create Your Quickbooks Form

After the installation, you’ll need to create a WordPress form to connect to your Quickbooks account.

For our example, we’ll create a simple order form, but you could also connect your [contact form](https://wpforms.com/how-to-create-a-contact-form-in-wordpress/), [quote request form](https://wpforms.com/how-to-create-a-request-a-quote-form-in-wordpress/), [appointment booking form](https://wpforms.com/how-to-create-a-client-booking-form-in-wordpress/), or any other form you use on your WordPress site.

In your WordPress dashboard, go to **WPForms » Add New**. Here you can name your form and choose from one of the hundreds of templates available.

![Selecting the Billing/Order Form template](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/billing-order-form-template.png)

Your template will load in the form builder, and then you can customize it. Drag and drop fields to reorganize them, click on them to edit their labels, descriptions, and placeholders, and add and remove fields as you see fit.

![Customizing the Billing / Order Form template](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/customize-billing-order-form.png "Customize Billing / Order Form")

When you’re happy with your form, click **Save** at the top of the builder.

![Saving your form](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Save-Your-Form-settings.png)

### Step 3: Submit a Test Entry

Once you’re done creating your form, you need to submit a test entry to it. This is required to complete the connection in Zapier, so don’t skip this step!

You can submit a test entry by clicking on the **Preview** button in the form builder.

![Preview your form](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/preview-your-form.png)

Then fill out your form and submit it.

![Submitting a test entry to an order form](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/order-form-test-entry.png)

### Step 4: Connect WPForms to Zapier

Now let’s take a look at how to connect WordPress forms to QuickBooks via Zapier.

Log in to your Zapier account and click the **Create Zap** button.

![Creating a new Zap](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/zapier-create-zap.png)

First, choose WPForms as your trigger app.

![Choosing the WPForms app event in Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/zapier-trigger-wpforms.png)

Next you’ll need to select the action that needs to take place to trigger your zap. The only option for WPForms is **New Form Entry**, so go ahead and select it from the dropdown.

![Choosing New Form Entry as the trigger for a Zapier zap](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/zapier-event-new-form-entry.png)

Now Zapier will ask you to log in to you WPForms account. Click the **Sign in** button.

![Choose your WPForms account to connect to Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/zapier-choose-account.png)

This will open a popup window where you need to enter you site’s URL and your Zapier API key.

You can find your Zapier API key in your WordPress dashboard. Go to **WPForms » Settings » Integrations** and find the Zapier section. Expand it to copy your key.

![Copying the Zapier API key in the WPForms settings](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/zapier-api-key.png)

Then paste the key in the popup window and click **Yes, Continue** to close it and move to the next step.

![Allowing Zapier to access WPForms](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/allow-zapier-access-to-wpforms.png)

Next, you need to choose the form you created in Step 2 from the dropdown.

![Choosing your order form to connect to Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-connect-order-form.png)

At this point, Zapier will test your connection to make sure it’s working properly. Click **Test trigger** to begin.

![Testing your Zapier WPForms connection](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/zapier-test-trigger.png)

If you’ve done everything right so far, you’ll see the test entry you submitted earlier along with a success message.

![Success message for an order form trigger test in Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-order-form-test-entry.png)

Click **Continue** to move on to connecting Zapier to Quickbooks.

### Step 5: Connect Zapier to QuickBooks

Now that you’ve connected Zapier to the WPForms plugin, it’s time to connect WPForms to QuickBooks.

The first step in syncing to QuickBooks Online is to choose **QuickBooks** as the action app. Enter QuickBooks in your search bar, and then click on it when it shows up.

![Selecting Quickbooks Online as the action app in Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-action-app-quickbooks.png)

Then, you’ll be asked to select a QuickBooks action. As we are looking to create a new customer in QuickBooks from WordPress, choose **Create Customer** and click **Continue**.

![Selecting Create Customer as the action for a Quickbooks Zap](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-quickbooks-create-new-customer.png)

Now you need to connect your QuickBooks account to Zapier. Click the **Sign in** button again.

![Signing in to Quickbooks via Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-quickbooks-sign-in.png)

In the popup window, click **Yes, Continue** to allow Zapier to access your Quickbooks account.

![Allowing Zapier to access your Quickbooks account](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/allow-zapier-to-access-quickbooks.png)

Then enter your login credentials to sign in to your Quickbooks account. After you’ve logged in, Zapier will again ask for permission to access Quickbooks. Click **Connect** to continue.

![Connecting Zapier to Quickbooks](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/connect-zapier-quickbooks.png)

After the popup window closes, click **Continue** again.

Next, you need to create a template for the new customers that will be created in Quickbooks whenever someone submits your form. To do this, select the corresponding field for your form from each of the dropdowns.

![Mapping the Name field from WPForms to Quickbooks in Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/create-quickbooks-customer-template-zapier.png)

The only required field is **Full Name**, but you can add several more details from your form including contact and tax information.

Once you’ve mapped all the fields from your form that you want to send to Quickbooks, click **Continue** one more time. Now Zapier will test your Quickbooks connection just like it did for WPForms. Click on **Test action** to begin.

![Testing your Quickbooks action in Zapier](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zapier-test-quickbooks-connection.png)

If you’ve done everything right, you’ll see a success message.

![A success message for a Quickbooks zap test](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/quickbooks-zap-success-message.png)

Before you close Zapier, make sure to publish your Zap as well.

![Publishing your Quickbooks Zap](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/publish-quickbooks-zap.png)

Finally, don’t forget to go back to your WordPress site and [embed your form](https://wpforms.com/how-to-embed-a-form-on-your-website/) in a blog post, page, or widget. That way customers will be able to easily find it and fill it out.

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**Categories:** Integrations

**Tags:** online accounting, quickbooks, zapier

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