# **Step 1: Create an Apination account** ## **Create an Apination account to connect your QuickBooks Online (QBO), Guesty and Stripe accounts** ### **Steps** 1. **Go to [Apination][1].** 2. **Enter your email address, create a password, and click Sign up.** 3. **Check your email inbox for an email from Api…
# **Step 2: Initiating the VRAccountant onboarding wizard** ## **Sign into Apination and start the VRAccountant onboarding wizard** ### **Steps** 1. **Sign into your [Apination][1] account.** 2. **After signing in, navigate to the [VRAccountant onboarding wizard][2].** 3. **Select Guesty + Quickbooks Online…
# **Step 2: Add a QuickBooks Online (QBO) connection to your Apination account** ## **Connect your QBO account to your Apination account** ### **Steps** 1. **From the Apination [Apps][1] page, scroll down to find [Quickbooks Online][2]. ![][3]** 2. **Select the Connections tab. ![][4]** 3. **Select Conn…
# **Step 6: Configuring VRAccountant: Other settings** ## **Set your revenue recognition date, designate your management company (MC) class, and optionally set the date parameters for syncing past reservations during your initial sync** **![][1]** ### **Define your Revenue Recognition Date** **Your "revenue reco…
# **Step 4: Add a Stripe connection to your Apination account** ## **Connect your Stripe account to your Apination account** ### **Steps** 1. **Go to [Apination's Stripe connections page][1], and click the Connections tab. Click Connect Stripe account. ![][2]** 2. **When you see the following screen, [retrie…
# **Step 7: Configuring VRAccountant: Stripe** ## **Configure how VRAccountant records Stripe payouts in your QBO account** ### **![][1]** ### **About VRAccountant's Stripe integration** **VRAccountant connects QuickBooks (QBO) and Stripe to automate the accounting for Stripe payouts to your bank account.** **W…
# **Step 8: Configuring VRAccountant: Final steps** ## **Start the first sync between Guesty and QuickBooks Online, and between Stripe and QuickBooks Online** ### ### **Initialize the Guesty+QBO workflow** **Once you've configured all settings in the VRAccountant workflow configurator, you're ready to run the init…
# **Step 3: Configuring VRAccountant: Channels** ## **Map the reservation channels from your property management software (PMS) to customer types in QuickBooks Online (QBO); designate which QBO account is used to record payouts from each channel** ### **![][1]** ### **Map the reservation channels in your PMS to cus…
# **Step 4: Configuring VRAccountant: Items & Listings** ## **Map invoice items from your property management software (PMS) to products & services in QuickBooks Online (QBO)** * * * ### **Items section: Select which invoice items from your PMS you want to use on QBO invoices** #### **About the Items section** **…
# **Step 3: Add a Guesty connection to your Apination account** ## **Connect your Guesty account to your Apination account** ### **Steps** 1. **From the Apination [Apps][1] page, scroll down to find [Guesty][2]. ![][3]** 2. **Select the Connections tab. ![][4]** 3. **Select Connect Guesty account. ![]…