They scattered your business across ten logins. We collapsed it into one.
QuickBooks is accounting software. Helix is a business command center. One costs $660/year forever. The other is $279 once.
Bottom line: QuickBooks Simple Start costs $456/year. QuickBooks Plus costs $1,380/year. Helix is a one-time purchase of $279 — no monthly fees, no subscription. Break-even: 2.4 months on Plus, 7.3 months on Simple Start. Over 5 years with 11% SaaS inflation, QuickBooks Plus costs $8,847. Helix costs $279. You save $8,568.
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QuickBooks Essentials: $55/mo = $660/year. Break-even with Helix: 6 months.
QuickBooks is accounting software. Good accounting software. But that's all it is. It doesn't know your clients. It doesn't manage your schedule. It doesn't track your jobs or time. For all of that, you need more apps — more logins, more monthly fees, more things that don't talk to each other.
Helix is different. It's a business command center where everything is connected. Drag a prospect onto a job — the invoice creates, the time logs, the pipeline updates, the forecast adjusts. One action, seven systems. QuickBooks can't do that because it doesn't know those systems exist.
QuickBooks has excellent automatic bank feed syncing and reliable payroll processing for larger teams. Any accountant worth hiring can work with a CSV export — the idea that you need QuickBooks specifically is a lock-in myth that benefits Intuit, not you.
QuickBooks doesn't know your clients exist. It can't tell you which client is profitable and which is costing you money. It can't schedule your week, manage your jobs, or track your time without add-ons that cost extra. And every year, Intuit raises prices — because that's how SaaS works.
Most QuickBooks defectors hit one of three triggers: (1) another price increase, (2) they realized they were paying for QuickBooks AND three other apps when they should just need one thing, or (3) they tried to get a simple answer like "which client is most profitable?" and couldn't.
In QuickBooks, go to Reports → select each report (P&L, Balance Sheet, Customer List) → Export to CSV. You'll have your core data in 10 minutes.
15-minute setup. Import your clients, set up services and pricing. The Setup Wizard walks you through everything.
Run both systems for a few days. Enter transactions in both. Make sure everything matches and you're comfortable.
Once you're confident, cancel your QuickBooks subscription. Stop the monthly bleeding.
For small businesses and solopreneurs, yes. Helix includes invoicing, expense tracking, P&L, balance sheet, budget management, and cash flow forecasting — plus CRM, scheduling, and time tracking that QuickBooks doesn't have. The main thing Helix doesn't do is payroll.
QuickBooks Essentials is $55/month or $660/year. Simple Start is $30/month or $360/year. Plus is $85/month or $1,020/year. And that's before add-ons like payroll ($45/mo+) or time tracking ($20/mo+).
On QuickBooks Essentials ($55/month), you save $361 in year one and $660 every year after. Over 3 years, that's $1,681. If you're on Plus ($85/month), you save $721 in year one and $1,020/year after — $2,761 over 3 years.
Yes. Export your client list, transactions, and reports from QuickBooks as CSVs. Helix can import client data directly, and your financial history can be referenced as you build your new records.
Helix currently uses manual bank entry, not automatic feeds. This means you enter transactions yourself or import bank statements. For most small businesses doing 20-50 transactions a month, this takes about 10 minutes a week.
No. $279 one-time means exactly that. No monthly fees, no hidden charges, no "premium tier" you need to upgrade to. Optional cloud sync is $9.99/month if you want it, but it's not required.
We're not VC-funded. We don't have investors demanding "recurring revenue." We're a small team that built what we wanted to exist. One-time purchases still make money — $279 times enough customers is a real business. Optional extras exist (Cloud Sync at $5.99/mo, Station access at $10/mo after 90 days), but the core product works forever without paying us again. Even if we disappeared tomorrow, you'd still have your data on your device in exportable formats. That's more than Mint users can say.
QuickBooks costs you $660/year. Helix is $279 once.
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QuickBooks charges you $30/month to rent your own books. Helix costs $279 once — and it does more than accounting. QuickBooks is another login, another sync, another place your data can leak. Helix is a Single Source — 65,000+ workflows, zero walls between them.
One point of truth. Zero points of failure.