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Vendor PDFs become QuickBooks records with attachments

high specificsAdded 2026-10-14
Business
Small business back office (Eamonn Cottrell, Got Sheet)
Task
Reads vendor PDFs, categorizes items, creates QuickBooks Online invoices, attaches PDFs, asks for categories on unknown items, checks for duplicates, cleans up files
Result
Test run found 40 PDFs, created the QuickBooks records, attached PDFs and cleaned up on its own; once took hours, now minutes
Tools
  • Claude Code
  • QuickBooks Online API
Setup
  1. Added attachment API, unknown-item category prompt that updates a master list, file cleanup and duplicate checks
  2. tested by running twice
Source
gotsheet.xyz ↗
Specifics rating
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