What does a QuickBooks VA do? Bookkeeping, reconciliations, AP/AR, and monthly reporting in QuickBooks Online or Desktop.
How much does it cost? From $8.50/hour all-in, with no placement fees.
What do US businesses hire a QuickBooks VA for? The daily flow of the books. In 24 bookkeeping searches US businesses opened with Virtustant from July to October 2026, 21 of the 23 readable job posts named QuickBooks. 17 asked for reconciliations, 17 for bills and payables and 15 for invoicing and receivables; only 6 named a month-end close. 13 of the 24 searches were part-time, most often 20 hours a week.
How fast can I hire? You get a shortlist of 3 to 5 vetted candidates within 48 hours of your first call, and your hire can start in 72 hours.
What does a week look like for a QuickBooks VA? An example at 20 hours a week: Monday, review the bank feed, categorize new transactions and update bank rules. Tuesday, enter vendor bills and prepare the payment run for your approval. Wednesday, send invoices and record customer payments. Thursday, reconcile bank and card accounts. Friday, run the profit and loss and aged receivables reports and flag anything unusual.
How do you give a QuickBooks VA access safely? Keep primary admin yourself and give the VA a personal login, never a shared one. QuickBooks Online custom roles let you limit a user to the access their work needs: a bills-only role can exclude paying bills, and approvals need a workflow set up first. In our data, 8 of 23 bookkeeping job posts asked the bookkeeper to send payments, but only 3 named an approval step.
What does a QuickBooks VA do in Bill.com, Gusto and Stripe? In Bill.com, they enter vendor bills, code them to the right accounts and queue payments for your approval. In Gusto, they check hours and payroll inputs before you run payroll, then record payroll in QuickBooks. In Stripe, they match payouts and fees to the deposits in QuickBooks.