Guide
This is the guide where we explain our own missing feature as honestly as we can — because for some crews sync is worth real money, and for most small crews it is an expensive habit.
DayBoard does not sync with QuickBooks. That is the biggest feature this product gives up to hold its $36 flat price, and this guide exists so you can judge the trade with open eyes — including the cases where you should walk away from DayBoard and buy a tool that syncs.
Your job software and QuickBooks are two notebooks. Sync is a clerk who copies every entry from one notebook to the other, all day, automatically. Send an invoice in Jobber and it appears in QuickBooks; record a payment in QuickBooks and Jobber knows. When it works, your books are always current without you touching them.
When it doesn't — and 2026 review pages carry a steady line of sync errors, duplicates and mismatched payments, including from people who hired a bookkeeper to untangle it — the clerk has been copying wrong, quietly, for weeks. Sync is a convenience with a failure mode, not magic.
Export is you carrying the notebook over yourself, on your schedule. In DayBoard: download a file of your invoices and payments, formatted with the exact columns QuickBooks' own import asks for (InvoiceNo, Customer, InvoiceDate, DueDate, ItemName, and the rest). Import it, check the totals match, done. Five minutes at book time. Nothing copies itself wrong at 2 a.m., because nothing copies itself at all.
| Route | Monthly cost for a 2-person crew | Bookkeeping style |
|---|---|---|
| Jobber Connect (sync) | $128 | Automatic, when it behaves |
| Housecall Pro Essentials (sync) | $149 | Automatic, when it behaves |
| Kickserv (sync) | $60 | Automatic |
| DayBoard (export) | $36 | A file import at book time |
The gap between $36 and $128 is $92 a month — $1,104 a year — for a clerk most small crews need a few minutes a month. Some crews need the clerk full-time. Know which crew you are, and the decision makes itself.
It keeps two systems matched automatically: an invoice you create in your job software appears in QuickBooks, and a payment recorded in one shows in the other. It is a convenience for bookkeeping — it does not change how you schedule, quote or get paid.
Export. DayBoard writes your invoices and payments into a CSV file with the exact column names QuickBooks asks for on import. You run it when you do your books — weekly, monthly, whenever — and import it in one go. Your books end up in the same place; you carried the file there yourself.
Crews whose bookkeeper or accountant works inside QuickBooks every day, high invoice volumes where manual import becomes real work, and anyone whose tax preparer requires live-matched books. If that is you, buy a tool with sync — Kickserv at $60 flat is the budget-honest pick — and do not let anyone talk you out of it.
Most one-to-five-person crews whose books get done weekly or monthly. For them, sync is a feature they were charged suite prices to unlock, used a few minutes a month. An import at book time does the same job.
For your whole crew — up to 5 people. No tiers, no per-person charges, no job cap. Or $349 a year and be done with it.