Start free. 25 POs per month, forever.
Watch SideQuest parse your own POs before you decide to pay. No card. No trial countdown. Email goes in, license token comes back, you install the connector with Claude in 10 minutes.
What's in Free and what's not
Honest framing. Free is real, and it ends where the paid-only features begin.
Included on Free
- Inbound PO parsing (Gmail or forwarded from any host)
- OCR for scanned PDFs and image attachments
- Multi-doc attachment routing (cover letter + PO + spec sheet)
- Catalog matching against your QuickBooks Online items
- Customer cross-ref by sender email domain
- Draft Estimate built locally in SideQuest
- Manual submit: you tell Claude "submit this draft" and the Estimate gets written into QuickBooks
- All built-in reports (POs processed, top SKUs, time saved, match quality)
- 25 POs per month, resets monthly, no surprise cutoff
- All future bug fixes and parser improvements
Not in Free (upgrade for these)
- Auto-submit clean drafts (writes Estimate to QuickBooks without you clicking submit)
- Reply drafts to your buyer (Gmail draft with line totals + ship date + PO ref)
- Customer risk gate (auto-block when over credit limit or invoices past due)
- Quote workflow (RFQ detection, GP margin, uplift, discount, validity dates)
- Customer-specific cross-reference CSV upload
- Auto-learn cross-references from operator overrides
- Order confirmation auto-ack (opt-in fast acknowledgement)
- Multi-user seats and per-customer reporting (Growth and above)
What happens after signup
Email arrives
Within 2 minutes. License token + connector download link + a "what to ask Claude" cheat sheet.
Install with Claude
Open Claude Desktop, paste the install prompt, Claude walks you through the OAuth steps for Gmail and QuickBooks Online. About 10 minutes.
Label a PO
Apply the "purchase-orders" Gmail label to a real PO email. Ask Claude "parse this PO." SideQuest reads it, matches lines, builds the draft.
Submit manually
Review the draft. If it looks right, tell Claude "submit this draft to QuickBooks." The Estimate gets written. Total time: under 2 minutes per PO.
Common questions
What does "auto-submit" mean, and why is it gated?
Auto-submit writes a clean draft into QuickBooks Online without you clicking submit. It does NOT send anything to your customer; it just calls the QBO Estimate API. The feature shaves about 30 seconds per PO once you trust the parser, which adds up at higher volumes. Free-tier users still get manual submit. More on what auto-submit does and doesn't do.
What if I exceed 25 POs in a month?
The connector will warn you when you're approaching the cap and again when you cross it. Soft overage: 20% over (5 extra POs) keeps working. Beyond that, manual submit pauses and the connector points you at /pricing.html. Solo at $29/mo is the natural next step.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Email only. We don't keep a card on file for Free. When you upgrade to Solo or above, billing happens through Stripe with the usual checkout flow.
Where does my data go?
The connector runs on your computer. Your PO content, your QBO catalog, your customer list, your pricing: none of it leaves your machine. We see only counters (PO count for billing) and license validation pings. See privacy and security for the details.
Can I install on Windows?
Yes. macOS and Windows both supported. QuickBooks Desktop is in beta on Windows; QuickBooks Online works on both.