Small business▼−8Since September 2026: 14% → 6%, −8 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 14% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 1 → 7 of 82
QuickBooks · 3 categories · RankedQuickBooks Payments
61Judge labels
9First choices
7Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Cash application for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 83 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 88
7%10 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 83
9%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In cash application · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named QuickBooks Payments for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash application | Receivables and billing | 9% | 5 of 83 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 9% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| B2B payment acceptance | Receivables and billing | 0% | 47 of 94 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Contractor payments | Spend and procurement | 0% | 23 of 98 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Tipalti at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, QuickBooks Payments held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Cash application · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 3 of 79, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash application | 11% | 10% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 5 of 83 |
| B2B payment acceptance | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 45 → 47 of 94 |
| Contractor payments | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 61 → 23 of 98 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated QuickBooks Payments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated QuickBooks Payments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct11 labels1
Paraphrase8 labels2
Comparative12 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labels6
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative61 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 11 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“QuickBooks Payments is frequently recommended as the best cash application software due to its affordability and robust features” Mistral Small · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“best free‑to‑low‑cost option ... For minimal cost (no extra subscription): QuickBooks Payments (basic auto‑match).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“If you use QuickBooks: Start with QuickBooks Payments ($38/month) for basic automation” Kimi K2 · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“Why best for tight budgets? Often free/included with QuickBooks Online” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“mid-sized companies have outgrown basic tools (like QuickBooks Payments)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Payments, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Payments was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Payments, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Payments was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named QuickBooks Payments. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 59 of the 61 answers that named QuickBooks Payments and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
fitsmallbusiness.com30
learn.g2.com21
wise.com17
g2.com16
technologyadvice.com16
highradius.com15
quickbooks.intuit.com14
bluecopa.com12
techrepublic.com12
cashflowpick.com11
164 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Payments came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where QuickBooks Payments stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where QuickBooks Payments stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 8,100 a month (“quickbooks payments”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,529 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on QuickBooks's site (quickbooks.ninja), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 5 of 83 in cash application
Segment leader
9%
Versapay
- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 61 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 59 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as QuickBooks Payments
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as QuickBooks Payments; a claim can dispute any of them.
QuickBooks Online Payments 1QuickBooks Payments auto-match 1
Follow QuickBooks Payments
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
QuickBooks is the company behind QuickBooks Payments.ShowHide
The company
QuickBooks is the company behind QuickBooks Payments.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIs this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when QuickBooks Payments's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as QuickBooks Payments, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for QuickBooks Payments by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where QuickBooks Payments is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name QuickBooks Payments, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.