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Intuit QuickBooks continues to deliver value for customers through innovations that drive business growth

Here at QuickBooks, we’re focused on powering your prosperity by delivering an online, integrated platform that helps every small business succeed — at every stage of your business journey. In one place, the QuickBooks platform is designed to save you time and fuel your growth by automating tasks, streamlining workflows, and giving you access to data so you can make more informed business decisions. This includes incorporating AI-driven capabilities and connecting you to bookkeeping and tax experts so you know your books are up-to-date, accurate, and ready for tax time.

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Everyone in our company uses the QuickBooks platform at some level, and it creates a level of confidence and consistency and the continuity for our business to thrive.
Paige Rabon, Owner/COO, A Move Handled with Care, Denver Metro Area, CO

Starting August 1, 2024, we’re updating our pricing to reflect our continuous investment to deliver an integrated, AI-driven platform that helps businesses succeed.


In addition to notifying you of our pricing changes, we want to make sure you’re up to speed on the latest product improvements so you get the most out of QuickBooks. Check out some of the new capabilities we’ve added, whether you’re a team of one or leading a team of many. 


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Check out these exciting updates to QuickBooks

Our newly released offerings and product innovations are now available and designed to help your business thrive at every stage of growth. From expert assistance to automated tools, here are some new features we’ve added for all online QuickBooks customers:

Get insights, automate tasks, and save time with AI

Managing a business and staying on top of your cash flow is hard. We’re supercharging QuickBooks with the power of AI, automating tasks to save you time, providing insights on your cash flow, and helping you get paid faster. 


1. Intuit Assist for QuickBooks is our new generative AI-powered assistant currently in beta that is revolutionizing how you can easily stay on top of your cash flow. Intuit Assist for QuickBooks turns a photo of a receipt into a categorized transaction, translates vendor PDFs into bills, and automates the creation of invoices by extracting email correspondence or handwritten notes. In addition, it automatically flags invoices that are coming due and drafts reminders for you to review and send.


2. AI-powered Accounting: With the power of AI and automation, QuickBooks takes the tedious work out of bookkeeping, enabling you to spend less time on manual work and more time on growing your business. QuickBooks combines the power of your oversight with the ability to learn how you categorize income and expenses so over time it auto-matches and categorizes your transactions for you. It’s like having an assistant who’s always working in the background. The result: customers save 30 hours per month on average** thanks to QuickBooks’ ability to automatically categorize transactions, income, and expenses and match bill payments to payroll and payments. 

Confidently manage your business with guidance from experts

Your books should be organized, accurate, and ready for tax time; but if you’re like a lot of business owners, you may be feeling less than confident that all the details are correct. QuickBooks is here to help with two new expert-driven services.


1. QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted gives you peace of mind with unlimited access to trusted QuickBooks experts who can answer bookkeeping questions and provide tax resources so you have more time for what matters most.  


2. QuickBooks Live Tax allows you to file business taxes with confidence. With unlimited, on-demand help available throughout the year and backed by our 100% Accurate, Expert Approved Guarantee*, experts can identify industry-specific tax credits, maximize deductions, and save you time at year’s end.

An integrated product platform at the center of small business growth

From starting up to scaling up, we’re dedicated to providing a full picture of your business on one platform that meets the needs of businesses of all sizes. Through our connected QuickBooks products and services, you save time and effort and keep more money in your pocket.

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That statement that QuickBooks tools grow with you is totally true for us. You have to get QuickBooks. It’s going to make your work life way easier.
Alex Bailey, Founder/Executive Director, Texas non-profit Black Outside

Supporting your momentum as you gain traction and prepare to hire

Even if your business is somewhat new, it's gaining momentum. You’ve got more things to track and you’re thinking about hiring help. QuickBooks Online Simple Start or Essentials can help you as you’re getting started. Both products are designed to save you time, help you stay on top of your cash flow, and be prepared for tax time. Each also has a new, simplified bill management system that organizes and tracks bills and a new automated sales tax feature that identifies when special tax rates are needed on items. And for Schedule C filers, a new, at-a-glance tax estimate dashboard helps you plan for tax time. 

Ready to help get you to the next level

If your business is growing fast, has a high volume of transactions, and complex needs, you’re ready for QuickBooks Online Plus. It helps you manage your business from one place and have access to robust tracking and planning tools to better prepare for continued growth. 


Plus now includes budgets and forecasts capabilities that use up-to-date performance data, providing cash flow insights to help make more-informed business decisions. Product-based businesses can also benefit from the new, fully-integrated, inventory management features that track inventory and order workflows with automated accounting across sales channels and simplified product variant integration. 

Growing with you as you scale in size and complexity 

Larger small businesses need a more flexible solution as they grow in size and scale in complexity. QuickBooks Online Advanced meets those needs with new automated, advanced accounting tools, expanded roles-based access controls for matrixed teams, and customizable views that enable quick, confident decision-making. 


New accounting tools include automated workflows that route approvals based on a set of conditions, automated fixed asset tracking, and the ability to gauge project-level performance and profitability. Advanced also includes robust reporting and budget management capabilities, connecting real-time business data with Excel through Spreadsheet Sync.


And now with all the data-rich insights and reports, you can customize the business overview dashboard with charts to spot trends and help prioritize your work. 

Manage and pay your team with confidence

Paying your team is serious business. You need to be confident that your payroll is delivered accurately and on time. You also need a platform that streamlines employee management and makes it easy to provide benefits that help you retain top talent.     


QuickBooks Online Payroll provides businesses with a seamless workforce solution that simplifies the complex world of Human Capital Management (HCM), providing access to payroll, time tracking, HR, and employee benefits in one place. 


New and improved features include a deeper integration between QuickBooks Payroll and QuickBooks Time, advanced payroll cost allocation, bulk pay item management, an HR hub for employee record management, and benefits, including a new healthcare partnership with Allstate Health Solutions.

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Using QuickBooks to do our accounting and payroll is great because I know it’s accurate. I don’t have to worry about making sure that I’m adding something up right.
Shala Karimi, Owner/Designer, New York, NY

Explore updates to your QuickBooks product

It may have been a while since you looked at all the features available in your QuickBooks product. There may be some new capabilities you haven’t yet had the chance to try out. We invite you to take a look at each of our QuickBooks Online subscription levels and learn more about what QuickBooks is doing to help take your business to the next level, however you define success.

QuickBooks Simple Start

QuickBooks Online Simple Start is ideal for small businesses that have just a single user. Simple Start is designed to help small businesses save time, stay on top of cash flow, and get prepared for tax time. 


With those particular needs in mind, here are some of the new features we’ve rolled out to help Simple Start users simplify managing their business. 


  1. Access to expert help: Access live experts for setup help, guidance, and peace of mind with QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted or Live Full-Service Bookkeeping.
  2. Simplified, automated bookkeeping: Integrated bookkeeping powered by automation when you use QuickBooks’ suite of tools.
  3. Bill management: Easily organize and track bills so you can see what you owe, when, and to whom. 
  4. Automated sales tax: This feature flags items that qualify for special sales tax rates, ensuring the rate is always correct.
  5. Annual tax estimates: See annual tax estimates at a glance, for Schedule C filers only.
  6. Smarter shipping: Get access to our deep carrier discounts and seamless invoicing integration.



To review all of the features available with Simple Start, visit here.

QuickBooks Essentials

QuickBooks Essentials is designed for businesses with a multi-member crew. It has all the same features as Simple Start, with the added bonus of serving three users, plus your accountant.


Here are some additional features we’ve recently added to QuickBooks Essentials.


  1. Access to live tax experts: Stay more confident at tax time with free access to tax experts through QuickBooks Live Business Tax.
  2. Access to expert help: Access live experts for setup help, guidance, and peace of mind with QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted or Live Full-Service Bookkeeping.
  3. Simplified, automated bookkeeping: Integrated bookkeeping powered by automation when you use QuickBooks’ suite of tools.
  4. Bill management: Easily organize and track bills so you can see what you owe, when, and to whom. 
  5. Automated sales tax: This feature flags items that qualify for special sales tax rates, ensuring the rate is always correct.
  6. Annual tax estimates: See annual tax estimates at a glance, for Schedule C filers only.
  7. Smarter shipping: Get access to our deep carrier discounts and seamless invoicing integration.



You can review all of the features available with Essentials here.

QuickBooks Online Plus

If your business is growing fast and has a high volume of transactions and complex needs, QuickBooks Online Plus is designed to help. It has all the features you get from Simple Start and Essentials, plus additional business management, tracking, and planning tools. It provides access for up to five users in the business, plus an accountant. 


Here are some of the new features we’ve added to Online Plus. 


  1. Budgeting and forecasting in QuickBooks: Make the right decisions for your business based on your budgets and forecasts managed in QuickBooks with up-to-date performance data.
  2. Inventory management: Track inventory and order workflows with automated accounting across sales channels and simplified product variant integration.
  3. Access to live tax experts: Stay more confident at tax time with free access to tax experts through QuickBooks Live Business Tax.
  4. Access to expert help: Access live experts for setup help, guidance, and peace of mind with QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted or Live Full-Service Bookkeeping.
  5. Simplified, automated bookkeeping: Integrated bookkeeping powered by automation when you use QuickBooks’ suite of tools.
  6. Bill management: Easily organize and track bills so you can see what you owe, when, and to whom. 
  7. Automated sales tax: This feature flags items that qualify for special sales tax rates, ensuring the rate is always correct.
  8. Annual tax estimates: See annual tax estimates at a glance, for Schedule C filers only.
  9. Smarter shipping: Get access to our deep carrier discounts and seamless invoicing integration.



Learn more about all of the features available with Plus here.

QuickBooks Online Advanced

Larger small businesses need a more flexible solution as they grow in size and scale in complexity. QuickBooks Online Advanced meets those needs with advanced accounting tools, expanded roles-based access controls for larger and more complex teams, and customizable views that enable quick, confident decision-making. It’s the ideal solution for businesses with up to 25 unique users and allows unlimited reports-only users to work together remotely. 


Here are some of the new capabilities we’ve recently added to QuickBooks Online Advanced.


  1. Easy task delegation: Our expanded role-based access controls and workflow capabilities make delegating projects to your team simpler than ever. 
  2. Real-time budgeting with Spreadsheet Sync: Confidently manage your budgets in Excel with real-time data by using Spreadsheet Sync.
  3. Fixed asset tracking: Track your fixed assets automatically, from acquisition to valuation and disposal.
  4. Customizable views: Easily build customizable views, with an upgraded chart view data visualization tool and enhanced formatting options.
  5. Advanced project-level insights: Automatically gauge project-level performance and profitability by tracking actual costs and income generated versus your original estimates.
  6. Budgeting and forecasting in QuickBooks: Make the right decisions for your business based on your budgets and forecasts managed in QuickBooks with up-to-date performance data.
  7. Inventory management: Track inventory and order workflows with automated accounting across sales channels and simplified product variant integration.
  8. Access to live tax experts: Stay more confident at tax time with free access to tax experts through QuickBooks Live Business Tax.
  9. Access to expert help: Access live experts for setup help, guidance, and peace of mind with QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted or Live Full-Service Bookkeeping.
  10. Simplified, automated bookkeeping: Integrated bookkeeping powered by automation when you use QuickBooks’ suite of tools.
  11. Bill management: Easily organize and track bills so you can see what you owe, when, and to whom. 
  12. Automated sales tax: This feature flags items that qualify for special sales tax rates, ensuring the rate is always correct.
  13. Annual tax estimates: See annual tax estimates at a glance, for Schedule C filers only.
  14. Smarter shipping: Get access to our deep carrier discounts and seamless invoicing integration.



You can review all of the features available with Advanced here.

QuickBooks Self-Employed

QuickBooks Self-Employed has been a valuable tool for self-employed businesses looking to manage their finances and feel prepared and confident at tax time. With simplified tax preparation tools, the ability to separate business from personal expenses, and mileage tracking, QuickBooks Self-Employed helps you stay organized and ready for tax season. Some enhancements of QuickBooks Self-Employed over the years include:


  • Multi-vehicle manager, mileage, and expense tracker: This feature allows users to add multiple vehicles, track miles, and match expenses for each vehicle in QuickBooks Self-Employed. This allows you to maximize tax deductions, and helps you stay prepared for taxes.
  • Reimagined mobile tax experience: This mobile app tax experience is designed to build your confidence at tax time – it shows the connection between deductions and the payoffs, with real-time taxable profit insights, and all of the relevant workflows within the app (banking, trips, home office, tax profile).


You can also check out QuickBooks’s new financial management solution for one-person businesses – QuickBooks Solopreneur. QuickBooks Solopreneur includes an easy-to-use suite of tools for self-employed businesses. It offers an easier setup and navigation than QuickBooks Self-Employed, an automated transaction management experience, and tools to help drive growth. You’ll also be able to provide your customers with even more flexible payment options, send custom estimates, and easily track business goals, plus some other key features:


  1. Seamless books-to-tax experience: QuickBooks Self-Employed enables users to export data to TurboTax, while QuickBooks Solopreneur has a seamless books-to-tax experience with QuickBooks Live Tax. This is designed to save time and effort for Schedule C filers: you can get your taxes filed accurately with unlimited help with your current tax year return from live tax experts, powered by TurboTax. Pay only when you file.**
  2. QuickBooks Checking business bank account: Open a QuickBooks Checking account and enjoy no monthly fees, overdraft fees, or minimum balances. Within your account, you’ll also have access to QuickBooks savings envelopes, which can help your money go further by earning an industry-leading 5.00% APY – that’s 70x the U.S. average.*


Learn more about QuickBooks Solopreneur’s features for one-person businesses here, or visit our guide to learn how to ​​switch from QuickBooks Self-Employed to QuickBooks Solopreneur.

QuickBooks Online Payroll

If you run a business with employees, you understand the importance of payroll and team management. You not only need confidence that your payroll is delivered accurately and on time, but a platform that enables you to manage employee data and human resources tasks, access guidance from experts when you need it, and provide benefits that help you retain top talent.      


QuickBooks Online Payroll provides businesses with a seamless workforce solution that simplifies the complexities of Human Capital Management (HCM), providing access to payroll, time tracking, team management, and employee benefits in one place. 


There are three QuickBooks Online Payroll products, including Core, Premium, and Elite. Here are some of the latest features new to Core:


  1. Human Resources Information System (HRIS) capabilities: QuickBooks Online Payroll makes it easy to upload and share employee documents and build employee profiles, including photos and emergency contacts.
  2. Pay item editing: Quickly and easily edit, assign, and remove multiple pay items.
  3. Employee health benefits through Allstate Health Solutions: You may already be enjoying access to our 401(k) and retirement plans by Guideline. Now, we’re introducing a new health insurance partnership with Allstate Health Solutions. You can find affordable and flexible healthcare packages by Allstate Health Solutions, right from your QuickBooks Payroll account.** Allstate’s Health Solutions agents can help you compare plans, explore health savings options, provide personalized recommendations, and apply for coverage. After you enroll, you'll also receive dedicated support.


Learn more about all the features included with Payroll Core here.


Of course, our QuickBooks Online Payroll Premium and Elite customers get all the features inside Core. But you’ll also have access to these additional capabilities: 



  • Premium and Elite HRIS features: Premium and Elite customers now have access to automations that further streamline employee onboarding: I-9s can now be completed directly in QuickBooks when employees are activated and the feature is enabled in QuickBooks Workforce web portal. 


You can learn more about all of the features included in Payroll Premium here, and the features included in Payroll Elite here.

Our prices are increasing, and so is our value

Reflecting our continuous investment to deliver an online, integrated, AI-driven platform that helps businesses succeed, we’re updating our pricing in the U.S. starting August 1, 2024. We routinely evaluate our pricing structure across the QuickBooks platform and notify customers by email in advance of any changes. 


We look forward to continuing to serve you and will keep building out new and exciting solutions for your business. If you have any suggestions for how we can improve our products, we’d love to hear from you


Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes succeed, providing you with an AI-driven platform that connects you to experts and automates and simplifies your workflows to help drive your success. Eighty-eight percent of small businesses that use QuickBooks say it helps them be more successful.**** We’re proud to play a role in every small business success story and remain committed to delivering the tools needed to ensure their prosperity.

*Terms and conditions apply: 100% Accurate, Expert Approved Guarantee

**Based on total auto-categorized transactions from Jan-Dec 2022 from US subscribers

***Based on survey of small businesses using QuickBooks Online Simple Start, Essentials, or Plus in U.S. conducted March 2023 who stated average savings compared with their prior solution

****As reported on QuickBooks.Intuit.com/accounting


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Intuit Assist for QuickBooks: Intuit Assist and certain other AI features and functionalities are currently available at no additional cost to certain QuickBooks users. Pricing, terms, conditions, special features and service options are subject to change without notice. Intuit reserves the right to discontinue the feature at any time for any reason in its sole and absolute discretion.

QuickBooks Payments: QuickBooks Payments account subject to eligibility criteria, credit, and application approval. Subscription to QuickBooks Online required. Money movement services are provided by Intuit Payments Inc., licensed as a Money Transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services. For more information about Intuit Payments' money transmission licenses, please visit https://www.intuit.com/legal/licenses/payment-licenses/.

QuickBooks Workforce: QuickBooks Payroll (“Payroll”) and/or QuickBooks Time (“Time”) subscription required. Feature availability may vary based on company subscription, settings, and employment type. Registration required. Certain features are available only through the Workforce web portal or through the Workforce mobile app.


QuickBooks Live Expert Assisted: This is a monthly subscription service offering ongoing guidance on how to manage your books that you maintain full ownership and control. When you request a session with a Live bookkeeper, they can provide guidance on topics including: bookkeeping automation, categorization, financial reports and dashboards, reconciliation, and workflow creation and management. They can also answer specific questions related to your books and your business. Some basic bookkeeping services may not be included and will be determined by your Live bookkeeper. The Live bookkeeper will provide help based on the information you provide.


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Automated I-9: Available to QuickBooks Online Payroll Premium and Elite users only. Must have been enabled and employees must have access to QuickBooks Workforce to complete setup.


QuickBooks Live Tax: Powered by TurboTax, is an integrated service available to one-person businesses / sole proprietors who file Schedule C (form 1040). Additional terms and eligibility applies; fees may apply. Some tax situations may not be supported. For guarantee information, see: https://turbotax.intuit.com/corp/guarantees/


Requires QuickBooks Online mobile (“QBM”) application. QuickBooks Mobile app works with iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets. Devices sold separately; data plan required. Not all features are available on the mobile apps and mobile browser. Data access is subject to cellular/internet provider network availability and occasional downtime due to system and server maintenance and events beyond your control. Product registration required.


For more information about the services provided by QuickBooks Live Tax, refer to the QuickBooks Terms of Service and TurboTax Terms of Service.


QuickBooks Checking account: Banking services provided by and the QuickBooks Visa® Debit Card is issued by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to license from Visa U.S.A., Inc. Visa is a registered trademark of Visa International Service Association. Green Dot Bank operates under the following registered trade names: GoBank, GO2bank and Bonneville Bank. Registered trade names are used by, and refer to, a single FDIC-insured bank, Green Dot Bank. Deposits under any of these trade names are deposits with Green Dot Bank and are aggregated for deposit insurance coverage up to the allowable limits. Green Dot is a registered trademark of Green Dot Corporation. ©2022 Green Dot Corporation. All rights reserved. QuickBooks products and services, including Instant Deposit, QuickBooks Payments, Cash flow planning / forecasting are not provided by Green Dot Bank.


Users must apply for both QuickBooks Payments and QuickBooks Checking accounts when bundled.


Industry-leading Annual Percentage Yield (APY): Competitive rate information based on publicly available data for small business checking accounts provided by the largest national and online banks as of September 18, 2023. APYs are subject to change at any time.


No minimum balances or monthly fees: There are no minimum balance requirements to open or maintain this account or obtain the listed APY. Other fees and limits apply. See Deposit Account Agreement for details.


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