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Can LiveFlow import a P&L by Customer from QuickBooks

LiveFlow can easily pull in a P&L by customer utilizing one of two methods of your choosing

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Yes! LiveFlow can easily pull in a P&L by Customer.

There are two ways you can do it!

1 - P&L by Customer with a column for each customer

This is how the report looks like

How to create a P&L by Customer with a column for each customer?

  1. Open LiveFlow

  2. Go to Create Report

  3. Select a Profit & Loss report

  4. Choose a date-range

  5. Set Display columns by to be by Customer

2 - P&L by Customer filtered by each customer

How to import a P&L by Customer filtered by each customer?

  1. Open LiveFlow

  2. Go to Create Report

  3. Select a Profit & Loss report

  4. Choose a date-range

  5. Set Display columns by to be by Month, Year, Quarter, or any other method you prefer

  6. Click on Show Filters

  7. Click on Filter by Customer/Project and select the Customer/Project to filter by

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Trial Balance Report

Question: When running Trial Balance and selecting columns By Month, it errors or still just gives Debit/Credit columns. It doesn't show by month.

Answer: Here are a couple possible reasons why it did not work for your report:

  1. The source doesn’t support Monthly Columns: If the source files don’t include period-level (monthly) data, even if LiveFlow lets you choose the option, LiveFlow cannot split them into months, so the report stays in a single column.

  2. Columns by Month” Only Works With “Periods” Data: Make sure the data you're pulling is the period Trial Balance, not the End Balance or YTD balance.

  3. The QBO API for that file returned an incomplete dataset: If LiveFlow receives:

  • Zeroed month columns

  • Missing month data

  • A dataset where QBO only provides a final balance

This makes LiveFlow revert to a single column.

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