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Revenue Share

A new way to thank you for our shared success

Introducing the ProAdvisor Preferred Pricing revenue share—a program that recognizes the work you do recommending, setting up, and onboarding new clients to QuickBooks products. You’ll now receive 30% of the billed price your client pays each month on new QuickBooks Online, Payroll, or Time subscriptions.*

Client discount

Pass along a 50% discount to your client for 3 months, plus their first month is free.

Grow revenue

You’ll receive 30% of the billed price on base fees and 15% of employee fees for 12 months.

Save time

Your client is charged directly, so you spend less time managing subscriptions.

Enrolling your firm in revenue share

This must be completed by your firm’s primary admin or firm owner, and you’ll need your firm’s tax ID to begin.

1. Sign in to QuickBooks Online Accountant. Select the gear icon.

2. Select Subscriptions and billing.

3. Click the Revenue share payouts tab and click the Get started button.

4. Complete and Submit the application.

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Adding a client as part of revenue share

Once your firm is enrolled in the program, it’s easy to start a new client subscription with revenue share:

1. From QuickBooks Online Accountant, select Add client.

2. Select Revenue share under the Bill my client option, and then select the QuickBooks Online and/or Payroll product(s) for your client.

3. Add your client’s information and select Save.

This will start a 30-day free trial for your client. We’ll email your client with instructions for how to access their new account. Before the free trial period ends, they’ll need to add their payment information to activate the subscription and receive a 50% discount for the first 3 months. Clients are not notified of a firm’s participation in the revenue share program.

Calculating revenue share

Once you’re enrolled in revenue share, you’ll receive a monthly payout for all eligible client subscriptions. Please note that it will take 1–2 months to begin receiving payouts after a subscription is started. That’s because your client begins with a 30-day free trial, and the payout is calculated only after your client starts a paid subscription.

Here are some sample cases to show how your revenue share is calculated:

QuickBooks Online QuickBooks Online Payroll QuickBooks Time

Eligible products	Base price per month	Discount rate (first 3 months after 30 day free trial)	Discounted price per month	Revenue share rate	Revenue share payout (first 3 months after 30 day free trial)	Revenue share payout (next 9 months)
QuickBooks Online Simple Start	$30	50%	$15	30%	$4.50	$9
QuickBooks Online Essentials	$60	50%	$30	30%	$9	$18
QuickBooks Online Plus	$90	50%	$45	30%	$13.50	$27
QuickBooks Online Advanced	$200	50%	$100	30%	$30	$60

Base price per month

QuickBooks Online
Simple Start	$30
Essentials	$55
Plus	$85
Advanced	$200

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Learn more about the revenue share program

Frequently asked questions

Who is eligible for revenue share?

Do I have to pay to participate in revenue share?

When will I be able to participate in the revenue share program?

For how long will I be eligible to collect revenue share payouts for clients I add through the program?

What countries/regions offer the revenue share program?

Why wouldn’t an accountant want to enroll in revenue share?

In some locations and under certain circumstances, including, for example, accountants who offer audit services, accountants may not be permitted under rules that apply to them to participate in a revenue share program. Accountants are responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, ethics rules, codes of professional conduct, and any other restrictions or requirements that may apply in connection with their receipt of a referral fee as a result of their involvement in the revenue share program.

Which clients are eligible?

How and when do I get paid?

Once you’re enrolled in the revenue share program, you’ll receive a monthly payout for all eligible client-billed subscriptions added through revenue share. Please note that it will take 1 to 2 months to begin receiving payouts after a subscription is started since your client begins with a 30-day free trial and the payout is calculated only after your client begins paying. Payouts will be made once a month to all eligible QuickBooks Online Accountant firms and sent via direct deposit to the account you specify during enrollment.

Who can enroll my QuickBooks Online Accountant firm in revenue share? And who can add clients on revenue share once my firm is approved?

Firm owners, primary admins, and full access users are able to apply to enroll a firm in revenue share.
Firm owners, primary admins, full access and manage clients access level users are able to add a new client using revenue share.
The following table describes the user access level in QuickBooks Online Accountant and which revenue share related screens and information each user level can access:

Can I leave the revenue share program?

If I leave revenue share, when do my payouts end?

What if I opt to leave the program, but then change my mind?

After you choose to leave the revenue share program, there is a 30 to 60-day period during which your final revenue share payouts are being processed. While in this period, you may choose to opt back into the program by clicking Stay in revenue share from either the “Add Client” screen (within QuickBooks Online Accountant), or the “Revenue share payouts” tab (in Subscriptions and billings).

However, once that payout reconciliation period expires, you will no longer see the Stay in revenue share as an option to opt back into the program. If you would like to resume participation in the revenue share after the expiration of the 30 to 60-day reconciliation period, you will need to re-apply to re-enroll in the program.

Why is a W-9 required?

What happens if my client upgrades, downgrades, or adds services (such as Payroll) to their subscription?

Upgrading/downgrading:

Your client can upgrade or downgrade their product subscription with revenue share as needed. If the upgrade/downgrade happens within the 12 month revenue share eligibility window, the revenue share amount after the upgrade/downgrade will be based on the updated billed amount. Once revenue share eligibility ends, your client may of course continue to upgrade/downgrade. You will not receive a payout after the revenue share eligibility window ends.

Adding a service:

You can add a Payroll subscription to a client with a QuickBooks Online subscription under revenue share and you can add a QuickBooks Online subscription to a client with a Payroll subscription. The new QuickBooks Online or Payroll subscription will be applied with its own 12 month revenue share eligibility window. For example, if a new Payroll subscription is added to an existing QuickBooks Online revenue share subscription, that Payroll subscription will have its own 12 month eligibility window.

- QuickBooks Online Accountant Rev Share Program Offer Terms
  
  Eligibility: QuickBooks Online Accountant (“QBOA”) firms in the United States only are eligible to apply to enroll in the “Revenue Share Program” and add and manage only new U.S.-based subscribers through “Add Client” for certain subscriptions (“Revenue Share Subscriptions”) and add-ons (“Revenue Share Add-Ons”).
  
  Rev Share Subscriptions means the following QuickBooks services: QuickBooks Online Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, and Advanced, and QuickBooks Online Payroll Core, Premium, and Elite. The Revenue Share Add-Ons means the per employee fee and multi-state charge for QuickBooks Online Payroll. The Revenue Share Subscriptions and Add-Ons do not include other optional add-on services for which Intuit charges a fee and is not already included in the base fee for the subscription.
  
  Only one (1) QBOA user may enroll the QBOA firm in the Revenue Share Program. Intuit reserves the right to accept or decline any QBOA firm.
  
  Offer Terms: Each Revenue Share Program participant (“Participant”) is eligible to receive a 30% revenue share on the Rev Share Subscriptions and 15% revenue share on the Rev Share Add-Ons for the first 12 months of the paid subscription (“Rev Share Payment(s)”), starting from the date the client starts paying for the subscription. The first month of the Revenue Share Subscriptions and Revenue Share Add-Ons, starting from the date of enrollment in the subscription, is free. After the first month of the Rev Share Subscription, a 50% discount is applied to the then-current monthly list price for three (3) months, followed by the then-current list price. After the first month of the subscription, if the client enters their payment details and pays for the subscription, the firm is eligible to receive Rev Share Payments for the subsequent 12 months only. Each Rev Share Subscription must be client-billed, and cannot be paid for by the QBOA firm. Cannot be combined with any other Intuit offer. Offer valid for a limited time only, only in the U.S., and is non-transferable.
  
  Compliance Regarding Anti-Corruption/Anti-Bribery and Global Trade Laws: In conformity with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”), and other applicable laws prohibiting bribery, money laundering, and other corrupt practices and behavior, and with Intuit’s established corporate policies and Supplier Code of Conduct, the Participant and its employees, and agents shall not directly or indirectly offer, give, pay, promise to pay, receive, or authorize the payment of any bribes, kickbacks, influence payments, or other unlawful or improper inducements to any person in whatever form (including without limitation, gifts, travel, entertainment, contributions, or anything else of value). The Participant shall maintain true, accurate, and complete books and records with respect to all payments made to or for the benefit of third parties in connection with this Agreement or that relate in any way to the goods or services provided in connection with this Agreement. In the event Intuit receives, at any time during the term of this Agreement and for three years (3) thereafter, any information causing concern that the Participant may have failed to comply with any provision of this section, Intuit or its designee shall have the right to audit the Participant's financial and other books and records relating to its activities and performance under this Agreement.
  
  In rendering the services contemplated under this Agreement or in connection with the performance of any other obligation hereunder, the Participant shall, at its own expense, take (and cause third parties to take) all measures, actions and steps in order to ensure that no transactions or interactions with any persons (natural or entities) included in lists maintained by the United States or other applicable jurisdictions prohibiting transactions with and the export of US products to certain entities, people and jurisdictions, including Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea, Donetsk (“DNR”), and Luhansk (“LNR”) regions of the Ukraine. In the event that the Participant enters into a transaction or otherwise has an interaction with a person included in the aforementioned lists, it shall inform Intuit within a term not to exceed two (2) business days as of the date the Participant learned of such fact or circumstance. Such notice is not intended nor will it have the effect of relieving the Participant of any liability under this Agreement or applicable law.
  
  Termination. Intuit may terminate these terms or the Revenue Share Program or modify the terms of the Revenue Share Program for any reason and at any time, at Intuit’s sole discretion, without notice. Terms, conditions, pricing, special features, and service and support options are subject to change without notice.

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QuickBooks Online Payroll Core	$6	0%	$6	15%	$.90	$.90
QuickBooks Online Payroll Premium	$8	0%	$8	15%	$1.20	$1.20
QuickBooks Online Payroll Elite	$10	0%	$10	15%	$1.50	$1.50

QuickBooks Online Time Premium	$8	0%	$8	15%	$1.20	$1.20
QuickBooks Online Time Elite	$10	0%	$10	15%	$1.50	$1.50