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Explore QuickBooks on the Intuit Platform

by Intuit•9338• Updated about 11 hours ago

The all-in-one integrated platform experience helps you manage your books and all of your tools and services. When everything is in one place, it's easier to find things, use them better, and do what you need to do faster.

If you're an existing QuickBooks customer, see what features have moved or changed in the enhanced Intuit Platform.

The QuickBooks design has been updated! If this video doesn't match what you see in QuickBooks, use the in-app Search bar to navigate to the page you need.

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This is Katheryn from the QuickBooks team. Welcome to QuickBooks Online. First, let’s explore how to get around, where to find your settings, and how to get help when needed! Select Dashboard to see shortcuts to some of the most common activities in QuickBooks. You can also view your sales & get paid funnel, an overview of your bank accounts, and charts and graphs. Select Add widgets to customize what you see. Intuit Assist uses the business feed to share work it does for you and give you suggestions on how to run your business. Reports and Analytics is where you run valuable reports on your company’s performance. This is also where you can take a look at budgets, forecasts, and other financial planning tools. Select My apps to find where to perform your work in QuickBooks. You can also use the search tool. Accounting lets you connect your bank and credit cards to QuickBooks. You can securely and automatically import transactions, which are either categorized for you by QuickBooks, or you can enter required data yourself. Connecting your accounts keeps your books up-to-date and accurate, and is an important first step in the setup process. Integration transactions is where you see transactions from all your connected sales channels, like Shopify or Amazon. You can also upload and review receipts, reconcile your books, and customize your Chart of Accounts to manage how you want to categorize and track transactions. In Expenses & Pay Bills, you can see vendors and contractors, record expenses, and enter and pay bills. You also track your business Mileage here. Sales & Get Paid helps you manage your money-in options such as sending Invoices to customers, accepting payments, and tracking the products and services you sell. You manage your customers and leads in the Customer Hub. Select Team to add and view your Employees and Contractors. And Time lets you enter and approve the hours your team works. Depending on your QuickBooks plan, you can track and plan your Project financials under Project Management. Sales Tax lets you set up and pay your Sales taxes, And you can view and manage year-end taxes and filings for your business under Business Taxes. If you want to apply for a line of credit or credit card, you can do so under Lending. This is also where you sign up for a QuickBooks Checking account. Use Payroll to pay your team and Mailchimp to reach customers faster. You can customize your navigation at any time. Pin apps, or drag and rearrange pinned apps. You can add bookmarks for the pages you use most often. When you need to quickly create something, such as a new invoice or expense transaction, hover over Create to choose which transaction or entry you need to open. Now that you can get around, select the gear icon to see your Settings options. Here, you can do things like add and manage users, manage your billing and subscription info, and set your preferences to optimize QuickBooks for your business. Finally, when you find something you have questions about, help is just a click away. Select the Help icon to chat with our online assistant, see topics related to the page you're on, or search for more info. Plus, you can contact experts here. Now that you know your way around, what’s next is up to you. Visit our video center to find even more videos on how to get set up. Welcome to QuickBooks.

Optimized navigation

You'll notice some things look different, but the basics you know and love aren’t changing.

One of the first things you see is the app carousel. Features like Expenses and Inventory are now called Intuit apps and there's an app for every job. These features are no longer within a menu, instead you can access them quickly in the app carousel and sidebar.

Here’s where you can locate some of your favorite features:

  • We’ve added Create actions so that your team can quickly find and enter the transactions you need. Customize it with the transactions you most often use.
  • Transactions are split between Sales transactions and Expense transactions.
    • View invoices, sales receipts, estimates and other money coming into your business from Sales & Get Paid.
    • View bills, bill payments, purchase orders, and other expenses from Expenses & Bills.
  • Bookmarks, used for quick access to your favorite pages, are still displayed prominently on the sidebar. Hover over the icon to quickly display, then select your bookmark. 
  • Search for transactions, contacts, reports, help and more is our global search feature on the homepage. Use it to find any page within the Intuit Platform, including help content.
  • Bank transactions is the first option under Accounting. Access your bank accounts, registers, reconcile option, and even your chart of accounts. 
  • Reports are still featured prominently on the sidebar. Hover over the icon to quickly display and select options like Standard reports, Custom reports, and Financial planning.

Business Feed

Our biggest improvement is the Business Feed, which you can access from your Home or by selecting Image of the Intuit Assist icon. Feed from the sidebar.

Your Business Feed shows important notifications and a summary of personalized and actionable suggestions. Under your guidance, AI agents help automate much of your business.

Your agents help boost productivity and maintain oversight by also providing suggestions for future actions such as:

  • Generate and work leads: Your Customer Hub uses smart automation to find leads and assist with follow-up, helping expand your business.
  • Streamline cash flow: Intuit Assist auto-categorizes expenses and creates invoices and estimates. It also flags overdue invoices and drafts customer reminders.
  • Get paid faster: Your Payments Agent uses payment history to suggest better payment settings and communications.
  • Start a new project: Your Project Management Agent helps you set up a new project and uses ‌company and industry data to come up with the best profit margin goal.
  • Improve financial management and planning: Your Finance Agent provides insights into business finances, key highlights, and detailed breakdowns of your financial data.

Explore a more powerful QuickBooks and keep your books in top shape. Manage your money, payments, and customer relationships using Intuit apps—all from the Business Feed.

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