All US QuickBooks Online Accountant firms are eligible to apply to enroll in the revenue share program. Only the primary admin and full access users can enroll a firm in the revenue share program. Revenue share is payable to the firm, not to individual employees or team members.

No, there is no fee to sign up for or participate in the revenue share program.

The revenue share program is currently limited to early access. We will let you know when it’s time for you to sign up. Our goal is to release the program broadly by mid-summer 2022.

You will be eligible to collect revenue share payouts for the first 12 months of the paid subscription. The subscription must be billed to your client. (When your client takes advantage of the 30 day free trial, there will be no money paid out for that time. The 12 months will begin after the trial.)

At this point, revenue share is only being offered in the United States. 

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.

All new clients who are eligible to sign up for a new QuickBooks Online or Payroll subscription may be added through the revenue share program.

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. 

1. Firm owners, primary admins, and full access users are able to apply to enroll a firm in revenue share.
2. Firm owners, primary admins, full access and manage clients access level users are able to add a new client using revenue share.
3. 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: 

Yes, you may leave the program at any time. Once you have left the program, you cannot add any new clients using revenue share. 

After you choose to leave the revenue share program, it will take between 30 and 60 days to report and distribute the remaining payouts that were owed to you before you leave the program. Once those payouts have been distributed, you are removed from the program. 

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.

The income you receive from Intuit as part of the revenue share program will be subject to Federal/State Income tax. If you received $600+ from Intuit, you will receive a 1099 NEC form with the amount in Box 1.

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.