How to integrate Quickbooks MCP with Kimi Code

How to integrate Quickbooks MCP with Kimi Code Kimi Code is Moonshot AI's open-source coding agent, powered by Kimi K2.6. It runs in your terminal, reads and edits code, executes shell commands, and plans multi-step tasks, with native MCP support for extending it to outside tools. In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Quickbooks account to Kimi Code via Composio Connect, so it can add a new customer with contact details, generate a balance report for customer ABC, create a vendor for monthly office supplies, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Quickbooks is cloud-based accounting software for managing your business finances. It helps you track income, expenses, and gain insights to streamline your workflow.

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How to integrate Quickbooks MCP with Kimi Code

Kimi Code is Moonshot AI's open-source coding agent, powered by Kimi K2.6. It runs in your terminal, reads and edits code, executes shell commands, and plans multi-step tasks, with native MCP support for extending it to outside tools.

In this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Quickbooks account to Kimi Code via Composio Connect, so it can add a new customer with contact details, generate a balance report for customer ABC, create a vendor for monthly office supplies, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why use Composio?

Composio provides:

  • Access to 1,000+ managed apps from a single MCP endpoint. This makes it convenient for agents to run cross-app workflows.
  • Managed OAuth. You do not have to worry about authentication and authorization flows for every app.
  • Programmatic tool calling. Allows LLMs to write code in a remote workbench to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Large tool response handling outside the LLM context. This minimizes context bloat from large tool responses.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to thousands of tools across hundreds of apps. Composio loads the tools your agent needs, so LLMs are not overwhelmed by tools they do not need.

Connect Quickbooks to Kimi Code

Kimi Code is a TypeScript agent distributed through npm. It acts as an MCP client and reads server definitions from an mcp.json file, and it can also add and authenticate servers conversationally through /mcp-config. Composio is a remote HTTP server that authenticates with OAuth, so no API key is stored anywhere.

1. Install Kimi Code

The quickest way is the official install script, which requires no pre-installed Node.js and places the kimi executable on your PATH.

bash
# macOS or Linux
curl -fsSL https://code.kimi.com/kimi-code/install.sh | bash

# Windows PowerShell
irm https://code.kimi.com/kimi-code/install.ps1 | iex

# Confirm the installation
kimi --version

2. Log in

Start Kimi Code in your project directory, then sign in from the interactive UI:

bash
kimi

Run /login and choose Kimi Code OAuth using the device-code flow, or use a Moonshot API key.

3. Add Composio with /mcp-config

In current versions of Kimi Code, MCP servers are managed inside the app, not with a shell subcommand. From the interactive UI, run:

bash
/mcp-config
Kimi Code MCP config flow for adding the Composio MCP server

Tell it the server name and URL in plain language. For example:

Server name is Composio, and here is the server URL: https://connect.composio.dev/mcp

Kimi Code asks whether to add it globally, at ~/.kimi-code/mcp.json, or project-local for the current checkout, then writes the entry for you:

bash
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Composio": {
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

There is no transport field to set. Kimi Code infers HTTP from the url.

4. Restart the session

The new server is picked up on a fresh session, not the current one. Start a new session:

bash
/new

On the new session, Kimi Code detects that the server needs authorization and prompts you to run:

bash
/mcp-config login Composio

5. Authorize with OAuth

Run the command Kimi suggests:

bash
/mcp-config login composio

Kimi Code opens Composio's authorization page or surfaces a URL. Approve access, then return to the session. You should see confirmation that the Composio MCP server is connected.

Composio authorization page for Kimi Code MCP setup

Check the connection status any time with /mcp. Composio should appear as connected with its tools listed.

Kimi Code showing Composio connected after OAuth authorization

Connect your Quickbooks account

Back in a Kimi Code session, ask the agent to connect to Quickbooks or give it any Quickbooks-related task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Add a new customer with contact details"
  • "Generate a balance report for customer ABC"
  • "Create a vendor for monthly office supplies"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access to Quickbooks.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in Kimi Code, and your Quickbooks account is ready to use.

Conclusion

You have successfully connected Quickbooks to Kimi Code using Composio Connect. Your agent can now manage Quickbooks from the terminal with natural language, without exposing credentials in prompts or local scripts.

Since the same Composio endpoint exposes 1,000+ apps, you can add Slack, Calendar, Linear, and more to the same server and chain them into cross-app workflows.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Quickbooks action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Capture Charge

Tool to capture funds for an existing charge that was authorized but not captured.

Create Account

Create a new account in QuickBooks with the given parameters.

Create Bank Account

Create a new bank account on file for a customer in QuickBooks Payments API.

Create Bill

Create a new bill in QuickBooks Online.

Create Bill Payment

Create a bill payment in QuickBooks to record payment against one or more bills.

Create Class

Create a new class in QuickBooks Online.

Create Credit Memo

Tool to create a new credit memo in QuickBooks Online.

Create Customer

Create a new customer in QuickBooks with the given parameters.

Create Deposit

Creates a new deposit in QuickBooks Online.

Create eCheck Payment

Tool to create an eCheck payment using ACH bank transfer in QuickBooks Payments API.

Create Employee

Create a new employee in QuickBooks.

Create Estimate

Creates a new estimate in QuickBooks Online.

Create Invoice

Creates a new invoice in QuickBooks for a customer.

Create Item

Create a new item in QuickBooks Online.

Create Journal Entry

Tool to create a new journal entry in QuickBooks Online.

Create Payment

Creates a payment record in QuickBooks Online.

Create Purchase

Tool to create a new purchase transaction in QuickBooks Online.

Create Purchase Order

Create a new purchase order in QuickBooks.

Create Refund Receipt

Tool to create a new refund receipt in QuickBooks Online.

Create Sales Receipt

Tool to create a new sales receipt in QuickBooks Online.

Create Tax Agency

Create a new tax agency in QuickBooks Online.

Create Tax Code via TaxService

Create a new tax code with associated tax rates using the TaxService endpoint.

Create Time Activity

Create a new time activity record in QuickBooks Online.

Create Vendor

Create a new vendor in QuickBooks with the given details.

Create Vendor Credit

Tool to create a new vendor credit in QuickBooks Online.

Customer Balance Detail

Generate a balance detail report for a customer in QuickBooks with the given customer ID.

Customer Balance Report

Generate a customer balance report in QuickBooks showing outstanding balances for customers.

Delete Bank Account

Tool to delete a bank account on file for a customer in QuickBooks Payments API.

Execute Batch Operation

Execute multiple QuickBooks operations in a single request.

Aged Receivables Report

Generate an aged receivables report showing outstanding customer balances by age.

Get Attachable

Tool to read details of a specific attachable by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Balance Sheet Report

Generate a Balance Sheet report showing company assets, liabilities, and equity at a point in time.

Get Bank Account

Tool to retrieve a specific bank account by ID from QuickBooks Payments API.

Get Bill

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks bill by ID.

Get Bill Payment

Tool to retrieve details of a specific bill payment by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Changed Entities

Tool to retrieve entities that changed since a specified timestamp using QuickBooks Change Data Capture (CDC) API.

Get Company Info

Tool to read company information from QuickBooks Online.

Get Credit Memo

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks credit memo by ID.

Get Credit Memo PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks credit memo as a PDF file.

Get Department

Read details of a specific department by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Deposit

Tool to read details of a specific deposit by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Estimate

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks estimate by ID.

Get Estimate PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks estimate as a PDF file.

Get Exchange Rate

Tool to get exchange rate for a specific currency code and date in QuickBooks Online.

Get General Ledger Report

Generate a General Ledger report showing all transactions with debits, credits, and running balances.

Get Inventory Valuation Summary

Generate an Inventory Valuation Summary report showing inventory quantities and their current values.

Get Invoice PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks invoice as a PDF file.

Get Item

Tool to retrieve a specific item by its ID from QuickBooks Online.

Get Journal Entry

Tool to read details of a specific QuickBooks journal entry by ID.

Get Payment

Tool to fetch details of a specific payment by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Payment Method

Read details of a specific payment method by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Payment PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks payment record as a PDF file.

Get Company Preferences

Tool to read company preferences that control application behavior in QuickBooks Online.

Get Profit and Loss Detail Report

Generate a detailed Profit and Loss report showing company income and expenses with transaction-level details.

Get Profit and Loss Report

Generate a Profit and Loss report showing company income and expenses over a period.

Get Purchase

Tool to fetch details of a specific purchase by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Purchase Order

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks purchase order by ID.

Get Purchase Order PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks purchase order as a PDF file.

Get Refund Receipt

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks refund receipt by ID.

Get Refund Receipt PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks refund receipt as a PDF file.

Get Report - Account List

Retrieve the AccountList report from QuickBooks showing a list of all accounts.

Get Report - Aged Payable Detail

Generate an aged payable detail report showing aging detail for accounts payable.

Get Report - Aged Payables

Retrieve an Aged Payables aging summary report from QuickBooks showing outstanding vendor balances grouped by age.

Get Report - Aged Receivable Detail

Generate an aged receivable detail report showing aging detail for accounts receivable.

Get Report - Cash Flow

Generate a cash flow report in QuickBooks showing cash inflows and outflows categorized by operating, investing, and financing activities.

Get Report - Class Sales

Generate a ClassSales report in QuickBooks showing sales amounts grouped by class.

Get Report - Customer Income

Generate a customer income report in QuickBooks showing revenue by customer.

Get Report - Customer Sales

Generate a customer sales report in QuickBooks showing sales transactions and totals for customers.

Get Report - Department Sales

Generate a department sales report in QuickBooks showing sales data broken down by department.

Get Report - Item Sales

Generate an ItemSales report showing sales data for products and services.

Get Reports

Retrieve QuickBooks reports such as TransactionList, BalanceSheet, ProfitAndLoss, and others.

Get Report - Trial Balance

Generate a Trial Balance report showing account debits, credits, and balances for a specified period.

Get Sales Receipt

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks sales receipt by ID.

Get Sales Receipt PDF

Tool to download a QuickBooks sales receipt as a PDF file.

Get Tax Rate

Tool to read details of a specific tax rate by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Term

Read details of a specific payment term by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Time Activity

Tool to read details of a specific time activity by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Get Transaction List Report

Get the Transaction List report showing all transactions in the company.

Get Transfer

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks transfer by ID.

Get Vendor Credit

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks vendor credit by ID.

Get Vendor Expenses Report

Retrieve a vendor expenses report from QuickBooks showing expense transactions by vendor.

List Cards

Tool to retrieve all payment cards on file for a customer in QuickBooks Payments API.

List Departments

Query Department entities in QuickBooks using SQL-like syntax.

List Invoices

Tool to list invoices via QuickBooks Query endpoint.

Query Account Entities

Query Account entities in QuickBooks using SQL-like syntax.

Query Attachable Entities

Query Attachable entities in QuickBooks using SQL-like syntax.

Query QuickBooks Entities

Execute SQL-like queries on QuickBooks Online entities.

Read Account

Read an account in QuickBooks with the given account ID.

Read Class

Read details of a specific class by ID in QuickBooks Online.

Read Customer

Read a customer in QuickBooks with the given customer ID.

Read Employee

Read an employee's details in QuickBooks with the given employee ID.

Read Invoice

Tool to fetch a QuickBooks invoice by ID or the most recent if no ID provided.

Read Vendor

Read a vendor in QuickBooks with the given vendor ID.

Send Credit Memo

Tool to send a credit memo to a specified email address.

Update Attachable

Tool to update an existing attachable in QuickBooks Online.

Update Company Info

Tool to update company information in QuickBooks Online.

Update Department

Tool to update an existing department in QuickBooks Online.

Update Full Invoice

Tool to fully replace an Invoice.

Update Payment Method

Tool to update an existing payment method in QuickBooks Online.

Update Preferences

Update company preferences in QuickBooks Online.

Update Sparse Invoice

Tool to perform a sparse update of an existing invoice.

Update Term

Tool to update an existing payment term in QuickBooks Online.

Update Transfer

Tool to update an existing transfer in QuickBooks Online.

Vendor Balance Detail

Generate a balance detail report for a vendor in QuickBooks with the given vendor ID.

Vendor Balance Report

Retrieve a vendor balance report from QuickBooks showing outstanding balances for vendors.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Quickbooks MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Quickbooks tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Quickbooks and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Kimi Code fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Quickbooks tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Quickbooks scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Quickbooks data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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