Do you continue to have reservations about integrating credit card payments into QuickBooks? If you use QuickBooks for accounting and want to know how to process a credit card payment in QuickBooks, just follow these easy steps. A sales receipt or an invoice could be created for this purpose. After two prerequisites are met, you can record credit card payments in QuickBooks Desktop if you so choose. You need a card reader and a functional QuickBooks Payments account, which you may activate or link through the settings.