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Welcome to GrantLink

Learn how GrantLink turns synced QuickBooks activity into grant budgets, allocations, income tracking, reports, claims, and review workflows without changing QuickBooks.

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QuickBooks for Nonprofits: The Complete Setup Guide

Setting up QuickBooks Online for a nonprofit? This comprehensive guide covers everything from chart of accounts to grant tracking setup.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

How to Track Grant Award, Cash, Revenue, Expenses, and Remaining Balance

Separate award, pledged funding, cash receipts, recognized revenue, grant spend, and remaining balances so dashboards and funder reports answer the right question.

Grant Management & Compliance

Quick Start Guide

Connect and verify QuickBooks, create or import a grant, configure matching links, build its budget, review allocations and income, and prepare a draft report.

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Fund Accounting in QuickBooks Online: Complete Guide

QuickBooks Online can approximate fund accounting with the right setup. Learn the workarounds, limitations, and when you need more.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Chart of Accounts Best Practices for Nonprofits

Set up your QuickBooks Online chart of accounts to work seamlessly with GrantLink and funder requirements.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Understanding Classes in QuickBooks Online

Learn how QuickBooks Online Classes work and how GrantLink uses them to track grants and programs.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Managing Locations in QuickBooks Online

Learn how to use QuickBooks Online Locations for program and organizational analysis with GrantLink.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Tracking Customers and Vendors for Grants

Learn how QuickBooks Customers and Vendors integrate with GrantLink for funder and contractor tracking.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Connecting QuickBooks Online

Connect the correct QuickBooks Online company, run the first sync, and verify the company and imported data without changing QuickBooks.

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Working with Journal Entries

Learn how journal entries in QuickBooks Online work with GrantLink for adjustments and corrections.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Understanding the Sync Process

Choose incremental, full, automatic, or complete-history QuickBooks refreshes and verify both sync results and downstream GrantLink allocations.

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How to Track Restricted Funds in QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online wasn't designed for fund accounting. Learn the workarounds nonprofits use to track restricted funds, their limitations, and better alternatives.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

QuickBooks Classes vs Customers for Grant Tracking

Deciding between Classes and Customers for grant tracking in QuickBooks Online? This guide compares both approaches to help you choose the right one.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

QuickBooks Connection and Sync Troubleshooting

Diagnose QuickBooks connection, sync, history coverage, source coding, grant links, allocations, and report scope in the correct order.

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QuickBooks Grant Budget Tracking and Budget vs Actual Reporting

Learn how nonprofit teams handle QuickBooks grant budget tracking, where budget-vs-actual reporting breaks down, and how to deliver cleaner funder updates.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

How to Track Reimbursable Grants in QuickBooks

Build a defensible expense-to-claim workflow for reimbursement grants without confusing spend, billed amounts, cash receipts, and revenue.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Why Your Grant Report Doesn't Match QuickBooks

Diagnose grant-report differences systematically across scope, dates, mappings, allocations, reversals, and revenue—without forcing a plug entry.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

How to Reconcile a Grant Report to the QuickBooks General Ledger

A repeatable, transaction-level reconciliation procedure from funder workbook to grant allocation detail and the QuickBooks general ledger.

QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Accounting Help

Understanding Fund Receipts

Understand exactly which QuickBooks income and manual outside-QuickBooks records appear in a grant's Income totals.

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Reviewing and Reconciling Grant Income

Review exact QuickBooks income recognition, reconcile source lines, and record truly outside-QuickBooks receipts without creating duplicates.

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Splitting a QuickBooks Transaction Across Multiple Grants

Find an existing QuickBooks expense in GrantLink, split it across eligible grants by amount or percentage, and verify the saved reporting allocations.

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Best Grant Management Software That Works With QuickBooks (2026)

Compare grant management software that works with QuickBooks Online for budget tracking, restricted funds, allocations, and funder reporting.

Grant Management & Compliance

GrantHub Alternative for QuickBooks Users (2026)

With GrantHub sunsetting, QuickBooks users need alternatives for grant tracking. Compare your options and find the right fit for your nonprofit.

Grant Management & Compliance

Understanding and Using Restriction Releases in GrantLink

Learn what restriction releases are, how GrantLink tracks manual and QuickBooks releases, and how to support each release with grant expenses.

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Federal Award Intake and Compliance Matrix for Nonprofits

Turn a Federal award package into assigned controls, deadlines, QuickBooks tracking, and durable evidence without confusing agency duties with recipient duties.

Grant Management & Compliance

How to Prepare and Reconcile the SF-425 from QuickBooks Online

Prepare an SF-425 from QuickBooks Online with an award-specific mapping, cumulative rollforward, transaction-level tie-out, and reviewer-ready support package.

Grant Management & Compliance

Federal Cash Management and Drawdown Controls in QuickBooks Online

Control federal advances, reimbursements, and drawdowns with an award-specific worksheet, QuickBooks tie-out, cash forecast, and four-way reconciliation.

Grant Management & Compliance

Federal Budget Revisions and Prior Approval

Identify Federal award changes that need prior written approval, control budget versions, and recover when work or spending changes too soon.

Grant Management & Compliance

AI, Security, and Vendor Risk FAQ for Boards

Code-verified guidance for reviewing GrantLink AI access, QuickBooks permissions, data handling, exports, deletion boundaries, and vendor-risk evidence.

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QuickBooks Permissions and Current Writeback Availability

Configure QuickBooks mapping and organization writeback policy without confusing visible permission choices with currently available QuickBooks company-data writes.

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The Ledger Workflow

Review synced QuickBooks activity in Ledger, resolve eligible grant expenses, split and categorize reporting assignments, and verify exactly what stays local.

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Preparing and Tracking Reimbursement Claims

Build a local reimbursement-claim record from approved or posted grant allocations, track its lifecycle, and understand the current QuickBooks invoice boundary.

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Tracking Funding Shares and Match Requirements

Configure funding-share rules, record match requirements and local contributions, review evidence, and reconcile counted amounts to grant and QuickBooks activity.

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