Mastering QuickBooks Online (Udemy.com)

Mark Smolen's course is a five-hour walkthrough of QuickBooks Online. It starts with setting up a trial account, then moves through invoices, sales receipts, bills, deposits, petty cash and the main reports. It also shows how to find and fix data entry mistakes. The course description targets small business owners, people chasing an office job, and bookkeepers who want to move clients onto QBO. It has 15,074 reviews and a 4.6 rating, so plenty of people have been through it.

Reviewers like the teaching. They say Smolen explains things in detail, the pace is easy to follow, and the exercises are set up well. One self-described novice said it helped them understand how QB works despite feeling lost at first. The complaints are consistent too. Several low-star reviews say the screens did not match the trial version they got, one lesson relied on a button that was missing, and the trial link was dead or led somewhere different. Others found it slow and repetitive, and one reviewer already used QBO and learned little.

The course page lists a 2026 update, but the reviews we looked at date from 2019 and 2020, so check how closely the current screens match before committing. For a beginner who wants patient, detailed instruction, it is a sensible pick. Someone already working in QBO will probably find it too slow, and a short feature tour would suit them better.