A QuickBooks Self-Employed alternative, now that it is being replaced

QuickBooks Self-Employed is no longer offered to new customers. Intuit points them to QuickBooks Solopreneur, which lists at $20 a month for its Lite plan, and offers existing users an automatic switch. Self Employment Toolkit is a $6 a month alternative built for Schedule C filers: mileage, time, expenses, invoices, a quarterly tax estimate, and a year-end Schedule C export in one place.

Competitor prices and features were checked against each company's own pricing and help pages in November 2026. Prices change, so check theirs before you decide.

What is happening to QuickBooks Self-Employed

Intuit now sells QuickBooks Solopreneur to new self-employed customers, and its help center describes an automatic switch for existing QuickBooks Self-Employed subscribers. That switch moves customers, trips, bank connections, receipts, and up to three years of transactions.

Some things do not come across. Intuit's switch guide lists rules, quarterly tax estimates, tags, vendors, and third-party connections such as Etsy, Uber, and Amazon as items that stay behind. It also says you lose access to the old Self-Employed account once you switch, and tells you to download your data first.

If you used Self-Employed for its quarterly tax estimates, that is the piece to watch. It is the feature many solo filers opened the app for, and it is on the list of things that do not move.

Download your data before you switch anything

Whatever you pick next, save your records first. Intuit's own guide tells Self-Employed users to download their reports, transactions, mileage log, receipts, and invoices before switching, because the old account closes afterward.

Keep those files even if you move to Solopreneur. A mileage log is a tax record, and the IRS expects you to be able to produce it for as long as the return it supports can be examined.

Where Self Employment Toolkit fits

I built this for the same person QuickBooks Self-Employed was built for: one person, no employees, no inventory, filing Schedule C. Expense categories map to Schedule C lines. Trips are valued at the IRS standard rate for the date you drove. Paid invoices post to income. At year end you export the whole thing in Schedule C order as PDF and CSV.

The quarterly tax estimator is on the Pro plan. It works from the income and expenses you have logged this year, so the number moves as your year does.

Self Employment Toolkit is a web app that works in your phone's browser. There is no App Store app yet and no automatic drive detection: you start and end each trip yourself, and the route distance is filled in for you. Invoices are emailed as PDFs, but clients cannot pay them by card inside the app yet. It does not file your tax return.

Bringing your Self-Employed history with you

Trips from a QuickBooks mileage export go in through Import on the Mileage tab, which matches the columns and marks trips already in your log before anything is saved. Expenses from a QuickBooks transactions export go in through Import on the Expenses tab, with a row-by-row preview and duplicate detection.

Clients and open invoices are entered by hand today. For most solo filers that is a short list, and the switching guide walks through it.

Common questions

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