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QuickBooks Payments

55Judge labels
12First choices
6Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in Cash application for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 83 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Cash applicationReceivables and billing11%3 of 830%7under 10 labels · led by HighRadius at 16%
Contractor paymentsSpend and procurement0%63 of 8350%2under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%
B2B payment acceptanceReceivables and billing0%45 of 910%1under 10 labels · led by Helcim at 17%
Invoicing softwareReceivables and billing0%72 of 86100%1under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for QuickBooks Payments yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated QuickBooks Payments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar10012
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00202
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct10 labels2
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative13 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels10
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative9 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 18 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.

“### 1. QuickBooks Payments / QuickBooks Online (~$22-80/month) - Best for: Small businesses already using QuickBooks” Kimi K2 · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“if you need a simple, integrated solution and are already using QuickBooks, QuickBooks Payments is a strong choice” Mistral Small · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with QuickBooks Payments if you need basic cash application functionality” MiniMax M2.5 · Cash application · budget prompt · first choice
“The best cash application software for a company with a limited budget is QuickBooks Payments” Llama 4 Maverick · 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.

“users report that the app "takes your money, takes whatever they want, then passes you what's left a day or two later"” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Invoicing software · negative prompt · soft negative
“limited global reach compared with dedicated contractor platforms” Perplexity Sonar · Contractor payments · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Payments, over the 55 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.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BILL23 of 555Not in the top three
HighRadius20 of 550Not in the top three
Gaviti18 of 553Not in the top three
Billtrust17 of 550Not in the top three
Melio16 of 553Not in the top three
Stripe16 of 551Not in the top three
Helcim12 of 559Not in the top three
Wave12 of 552Not in the top three
Esker10 of 550Not in the top three
Lunos8 of 553Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 53 of the 55 answers that named QuickBooks Payments and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cashflowpick.com33
ledge.co24
highradius.com21
lunos.ai21
cashbook.com17
hustleandpassive.com16
fitsmallbusiness.com15
gaviti.com15
upflow.io15
factura.ai14

191 of the 191 domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Payments came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Payments / QuickBooks Online 1
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