Business Importer Pricing for QuickBooks Online and Desktop
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Business Importer, the spreadsheet import app now sold under the Synder name, has two price lists. The QuickBooks Online edition costs $15 a month per client company, with unlimited imports and one user included. The QuickBooks Desktop edition is a $150 license per 12 months covering unlimited companies and imports for one user. Both start with a 14-day trial that needs no credit card.
Those are the figures on the vendor's own pricing table at importer.synder.com, read in September 2026. You will still find $10, $16 and $65 monthly plans quoted on software directories. That is an older price list, and it is no longer the one the vendor shows. The rest of this page covers what each plan includes, what it costs a bookkeeper with several clients, and the question that matters more than the price: whether a record importer is the right tool for bank CSV files at all.
How much does Business Importer cost?
Business Importer is sold as two separate products. The Online app connects to QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage Business Cloud Accounting and MYOB through their APIs. The Desktop app installs on Windows and writes into a QuickBooks Desktop company file. You buy the one that matches your accounting software.
| Item | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Online, Extended plan | $15 per month per client company | Unlimited imports, 1 user, email support and a training webinar. The plan table lists 2 to 50 companies. |
| Desktop, License key | $150 per 12 months | Unlimited imports, unlimited companies, 1 user per license |
| Desktop, Free Trial | $0 for 14 days | Imports capped at 50 lines per file |
| Additional users | $5 per user per month | Add-on for either edition |
| Export feature | $100 one-time fee | Pull records back out of the accounting file |
The vendor states there are no setup fees and no card is needed to start the trial. It does not publish a refund policy or a yearly discount for the Online plan on the pricing table, so do not assume either.
Is Business Importer a monthly subscription?
The Online edition is monthly and priced per company, so the bill scales with your client list: 10 client files is $150 a month, or $1,800 a year, before extra users. The Desktop edition is a yearly license, $150 for 12 months, and the number of company files it can touch is unlimited. For a bookkeeper serving many Desktop clients from one Windows machine, that flat yearly fee is the cheaper structure by a wide margin.
Does Business Importer work with QuickBooks Desktop?
Yes, through the separate Desktop product. The vendor lists QuickBooks Desktop Pro, Premier, Accountant and Enterprise 2012 or later, including the Plus editions, on Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (32 and 64-bit). There is no Mac version of the Desktop app. Because it writes through the QuickBooks SDK, it runs on the same Windows computer that opens the company file.
What can Business Importer import into QuickBooks?
Almost any record type. The Desktop product page lists sales documents (invoices, payments, sales orders, credit memos, estimates), expenses (bills, checks, purchase orders, credit card charges), lists (accounts, customers, vendors, items), payroll time data, and journal entries, deposits, transfers and inventory adjustments. It also has a revert function that undoes an import after the fact. That breadth is the reason to buy it: it is a general data-entry replacement for spreadsheets, not a bank file tool.
What Business Importer costs a bookkeeping practice
Here is the arithmetic for three common setups, using only the published list prices. None of these include the optional $100 export feature.
| Setup | Business Importer | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 5 QuickBooks Online clients, 1 user | 5 x $15 a month | $900 |
| 20 QuickBooks Online clients, 2 users | 20 x $15 + $5 a month | $3,660 |
| Any number of Desktop clients, 1 user | $150 license | $150 |
For comparison, our Starter plan is $49 a month, or $294 a year on yearly billing, for 100 conversions a month regardless of how many client companies they belong to. Plus is $149 a month or $894 a year for 500 conversions, and adds QFX, OFX, QIF and IIF output. The pricing models are different enough that the cheaper option depends entirely on your client count and your QuickBooks edition.
Where Business Importer is the cheaper answer
Be clear about this before you compare features. If you run QuickBooks Desktop on Windows, Business Importer Desktop at $150 a year is roughly half the price of our Starter plan, and it imports far more than bank activity. If you have one or two QuickBooks Online clients and your job is loading invoices, bills or journal entries from spreadsheets, $15 a month per company is hard to beat. In both cases it is the right purchase, and a file converter is not.
What the price does not cover for bank CSV files
Most people pricing Business Importer for bank data have a CSV downloaded from their bank or card issuer and want those transactions in QuickBooks. A record importer handles that by posting each row as an expense, deposit or check directly in your books. That skips the bank feed review screen, which is where QuickBooks matches incoming lines against invoices and bills already entered. If the same account is also connected to a live bank feed, the feed will bring the same transactions in again, and you clean up the duplicates by hand.
You also map the bank's columns to the importer's fields yourself, decide which rows are expenses and which are deposits, and pick a payee and account for each. That is fine for a one-off migration. For a monthly statement it is a recurring chore, and every mistake posts straight to the ledger.
A Web Connect file takes the other route. Our CSV to QBO converter reads the bank CSV as downloaded, maps the date, description and amount columns automatically, and gives you a .qbo file that QuickBooks treats like a download from the bank itself. The transactions arrive in the For review queue, get matched and categorized there, and each one carries a transaction ID so QuickBooks skips it if the same file is imported twice. It runs in a browser on Mac or Windows, and it works for CSV to QuickBooks Desktop as well as Online, since Desktop cannot import a bank CSV in any version.
Should I buy Business Importer or a CSV to QBO converter?
Buy Business Importer if your spreadsheets hold invoices, bills, customers, items or journal entries, or if you are migrating a whole data set into QuickBooks once. Buy a CSV to QBO converter if your files are bank or credit card CSV exports for QuickBooks and you want them reviewed, matched and deduplicated like a normal bank download. Plenty of firms use both, one for each job.
One more split worth noticing. If the spreadsheets you keep bulk-importing are vendor bills typed up from PDF invoices, the typing is the real cost, and accounts payable automation that reads the invoices directly removes that step before any import happens.
Does Business Importer have a free trial?
Yes. Both editions start with a 14-day trial and no credit card. On the Desktop edition the trial caps imports at 50 lines per file, which is enough to test a template but not to load a real month of activity. Our own trial works differently: three conversions with no account and no card, then three more with a free account, so you can see whether the converter reads your bank's layout before paying anything.
For the side-by-side feature comparison, see our Business Importer alternative page. For every other converter's current price in one table, see CSV to QBO converter pricing compared.