Allow User to Update Quickbooks

Thanks for visiting the Community, avallario.

I'm here to help you update your QuickBooks Desktop.

The user would need to be an admin in order to update QuickBooks Desktop. However, you can set up QuickBooks to automatically download the updates.

Let me show you how:

1. Click the Help menu at the top, select Update QuickBooks.
2. On the Update QuickBooks window, go to the Options tab.
3. To turn on Automatic Updates, select the radio button for Yes (see the first screenshot).
4. To share automatic downloads with other computers on your network, select the radio button for Yes.
5. Select Mark All, then click Save.
6. Click the Update Now tab.
7. Tick the Reset Update button.
8. Click Get Updates (see the second screenshot).
9. Restart QuickBooks. When prompted, accept the option to install the new release.

Here's an article for more details:  Update QuickBooks Desktop to the latest release.

We're always looking for ways of improving QuickBooks. I suggest you submit a feature request. Just click the Help menu at the top and select Send Feedback Online.

Feel free to drop a comment below if you have other questions for me. I'm always happy to help. Have a good one.

No, it is a QuickBooks issue unrelated to your operating system. Only the admin can update QuickBooks. Even if you do not have multiple client computers but just a single instance of QB with multiple users you have to change to single user mode to update. If hosting a network every client must be logged off, multi-user shut off and updates distributed device by device.

This is sad that QuickBooks has not addressed this. In every corporate environment, I help with (I'm an IT Admin for a bunch of businesses) - not a single one in today's world is allowed to have admin access. It's far too dangerous with viruses and ransomware. Yet QuickBooks hasn't addressed this issue, unlike many other vendors who have. They have to find a way to allow for updates w/o admin access, OR, publish an article that describes what keys or folder permissions we can change so that it will allow for these updates.