Choose QuickBooks if
Your accountant works in QuickBooks, your stock is simple — one location, few variants — and you want the books and the levels in one product today.
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QuickBooks inventory management software, and where Stock differs.
QuickBooks Online is accounting software first, with inventory tracking on its Plus and Advanced plans, and it ships today. Stock is designed as inventory first, sharing one record with Bill for invoices and Ledger for the books. Stock has not shipped, and this page compares the two only on facts that stay true.
not shipped · wave 4facts as of research in 2026no competitor prices quotedcorrections welcome
Product design preview · Stock has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Stock has not shipped yet.
Stock has not shipped. The console, the features, the plans and the prices on these pages are the design, set out in full so you can judge it long before it exists. Stock is in the fourth wave of Centilio tools — later than most — with no app, no beta and no date yet. Join the waitlist and you will be told first.
Side by side
Centilio Stock and QuickBooks Online, side by side.
Facts as of research in 2026: what each tool is, what moves its levels and how it is priced — not list prices, which change. Check each vendor’s page for today’s detail, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
| Centilio Stock | QuickBooks Online | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Inventory management inside a business suite | Accounting software from Intuit, with inventory tracking on some plans |
| Built for | Businesses that buy, hold and sell physical stock | Small businesses keeping their books, with stock alongside |
| What moves the levels | Invoices, supplier bills, orders and transfers, as they happen (designed) | Sales and purchase transactions recorded in QuickBooks |
| Costing | Average cost or FIFO, posted to Ledger (designed) | FIFO, on the plans that include inventory |
| Pricing model | Per business (proposed): Free, then $19 a month | Per company, plans in tiers with user limits; inventory on Plus and Advanced |
| Availability | Not shipped — in design, wave 4 | Shipped and mature |
Choose
Which one to choose.
Choose Stock if
Stock is a large part of what you manage — several locations, batches, purchase orders, scanning — you want it in one record with your invoices and books, and you can wait for wave 4.
The difference
Books first, or stock first.
Accounting software with inventory, and inventory software with accounting beside it, are built from opposite ends.
QuickBooks Online starts from the books and adds inventory to them on some plans. Stock is designed to start from the shelf — items, variants, batches, locations and purchase orders — with the value posted to Ledger as it moves.
If your accountant is settled in QuickBooks, that is a real reason to stay. Stock is designed for a business moving its invoicing and books to Centilio as well, where Bill, Ledger and Stock share one record.
If you switch, later
What moving from QuickBooks Online would take.
- Start from today’s levels. Import items and quantities from a spreadsheet or an export, and count only what you doubt.
- Run both for a month. Keep the old tool while Stock records the same sales and deliveries, and compare the levels each week.
- Set the reorder points last. Once the levels agree, add reorder points and let Celia draft the first purchase orders.
- Keep the old records. Export the history from the old tool and file it, rather than moving every past movement.
Questions
About switching.
Does QuickBooks Online include inventory?
Inventory tracking is included on the QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced plans, as of research in 2026. Check Intuit’s page for today’s plans and detail.
Can Stock work alongside QuickBooks?
Not at launch, as far as anyone can promise today. Stock is designed to post its value to Ledger, the Centilio accounting tool, and other accounting tools will be listed only once a connection exists.
Will Stock replace my accounting software?
No. Stock is inventory software. In Centilio the books are kept in Ledger, which is designed to receive the valuation from Stock as stock moves.
Can I bring my items from QuickBooks?
QuickBooks can export its products and services list to a spreadsheet. Stock is designed to import items, quantities and costs from a spreadsheet.
Is Stock available now?
No. Stock is in the fourth wave of Centilio tools and has no launch date yet. Join the waitlist to be told first.
Which should a small business pick today?
Whichever ships today, if you need it today — Stock does not. If stock is a large part of your business and you are moving your invoicing and books to Centilio, join the waitlist and judge Stock when it opens.
Hear first when Stock opens.
Stock is in the fourth wave, after Bill, Ledger and Spend, whose invoices, books and supplier bills it is designed to read. Join the waitlist and you will be told before the announcement; in the meantime Account, Sign and Drive are live.