Categorize my business purchases in QuickBooks at tax time

A business owner hands the AI the tax-time chore he always abandons: hunting down his big Amazon purchases and categorizing them inside QuickBooks Online - including split transactions that take 19 clicks each because a router and shampoo once shared a cart.

How it works

Review Amazon business purchases
Open each transaction in QuickBooks Online
Categorize the big items
Split mixed business/personal carts line by line
Books ready for tax filing

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent's edge is not smarts, it's patience: it cheerfully clicks 19 times to split one transaction that mixed a work router with shampoo.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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