QuickBooks Self Employed Alternative That Tracks Payouts, Not Just Taxes

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QuickBooks Solopreneur, the product QuickBooks Self-Employed grew into, is a genuinely strong tool for the job it was built for: taxes. It sorts business expenses into Schedule C categories, estimates quarterly taxes, tracks mileage, and hands everything to TurboTax at filing time. If your biggest money problem is tax season, it is a sensible pick at $20 per month or $215 a year as published, and you should probably keep it. Worth knowing if you are searching for the old product: QuickBooks Self-Employed is no longer sold to new customers, and existing subscribers were moved onto Solopreneur, so the tool you are comparing against today is Solopreneur under a new name. The gap shows up if you earn from creator platforms. QuickBooks treats a Twitch payout like any other bank deposit. There is no per-platform view of gross to fees to take-home, no payout calendar telling you when YouTube or Etsy pays, and no next-month forecast. You see that money arrived, not what the platform kept or what is still pending. Earnly starts where the bank feed stops: every payout from every platform on one board, showing what you actually keep after fees, without becoming your bank or your accountant. Plans run $12 to $32 per month, less than QuickBooks, for the creator-specific view it does not offer. Earnly is an informational analytics tool, not tax software, so many creators run it alongside QuickBooks: one for the IRS, one for the income.