Transparency
What we read.
Every QuickBooks record FLCPA.AI Ledger Connect reads, and why it is needed for your accounting and tax work. Anything not on this list is never requested.
| Record | Contains Personal Data | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Company profile CompanyInfo | No | Company name, country and fiscal year start, used to label the dataset and set reporting periods. |
| Accounting preferences Preferences | No | The book close date and currency settings, used to detect edits to closed periods and handle multicurrency correctly. |
| Chart of accounts Account | No | Every balance and transaction maps to an account; tax workpapers map accounts to return lines. |
| Month-end trial balance TrialBalance | No | A fixed record of every account balance at each month-end, used for comparatives, tax workpapers and closed-period change detection. |
| General ledger detail GeneralLedger | Names of customers or vendors | Transaction-level detail behind each balance. Includes customer and vendor names on each line. |
| Journal entries JournalEntry | No | Adjusting and closing entries, the most common source of changes to closed periods. |
| Invoices Invoice | Names of customers or vendors | Revenue and sales tax charged, with the customer name needed for receivables and 1099-K reconciliation. |
| Sales receipts SalesReceipt | Names of customers or vendors | Revenue and sales tax collected at the time of sale, which an invoice-only view would miss entirely. |
| Credit memos CreditMemo | Names of customers or vendors | Returns and allowances that reduce revenue and sales tax owed. |
| Refund receipts RefundReceipt | Names of customers or vendors | Cash refunds to customers, needed to reconcile bank and processor activity. |
| Customer payments Payment | Names of customers or vendors | Ties receipts to invoices and deposits for bank and processor reconciliation. |
| Deposits Deposit | No | Bank deposits, matched to payouts from processors such as Shopify. |
| Bills Bill | Names of customers or vendors | Expenses and payables, with the vendor name needed for 1099 reporting. |
| Vendor credits VendorCredit | Names of customers or vendors | Credits from vendors that reduce expenses and amounts reportable on 1099s. |
| Bill payments BillPayment | Names of customers or vendors | Payments to vendors by method, which determines 1099-NEC versus 1099-K treatment. |
| Expenses and checks Purchase | Names of customers or vendors | Direct expenses, card charges and checks, with the payee name needed for 1099 reporting. |
| Transfers Transfer | No | Movements between the client's own accounts, needed to reconcile cash. |
| Customers Customer | Names of customers or vendors | Name and billing state only, for receivables and sales tax nexus. Street addresses, phone numbers and emails are not kept. |
| Vendors Vendor | Names of customers or vendors | Name and the 1099 flag, for 1099 preparation. Tax IDs are not collected. |
| Products and services Item | No | Maps each sales and purchase line to its income, expense or inventory account and its taxability. |
| Classes Class | No | The client's own reporting segments, used for segment and fund reporting. |
| Locations Department | No | Locations tracked in QuickBooks, used for location reporting and state apportionment. |
| Sales tax codes TaxCode | No | Which sales are taxable and at which combined rate, for sales tax review. |
| Sales tax rates TaxRate | No | The jurisdiction rates behind each tax code, for sales tax filings by jurisdiction. |
Never Collected
| Employee | Employee personal data is not needed; payroll totals come from the general ledger. |
| Vendor.TaxIdentifier | Vendor tax IDs are not collected. 1099 forms are prepared from the firm's own W-9 records. |
| TimeActivity | Time tracking is not used for accounting or tax work in v1. |
| Attachable | Receipts and attachments stay in QuickBooks. |
| Contact details | Emails, phone numbers, street addresses and personal name parts are removed from every record before it is stored. Addresses keep only state, postal code and country. |