QQube for QuickBooks Roadmap

Our mission is to make it easier to access to information to successfully run your business. and our number one strategy is to become better at what we do year after year including the improvement of QQube for QuickBooks, and how we assist customers in implementing it.

It has been a fourteen-year focus.

Focus is the key word, because we find it continually necessary to separate the hype of the latest fad, from the reality of what works.

Thank goodness our customers are entirely reasonable with their comments and requests, and don’t always ask for the “latest and the greatest”. Instead, they look for specific items that would help their daily operations, and we in turn strive to understand their business case.

There are three areas that we are addressing in our QQube for QuickBooks offerings.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions has always been the bulk of our business, and now that Intuit is no longer selling subscriptions to Premier, this will remain the case for us in the desktop world.

For those that want to stay in Premier for the near future, we will continue to support it until there is no audience.

With regard to features and improvements, there are opportunities to add additional measures and analytics, and improve speed. And of course, there are always minor bugs that customers find.

This encompasses the following packages: “Essentials”, “Plus”, and “Advanced”.

We are very late to the game, but for one good reason: Intuit has not exposed the information that we need to create a product that even approaches the desktop. Even after years of meetings and promises, we still don’t have everything we need.

However, we have calls from many customers for this option – and we have to listen to our customers. We will roll this one out in stages beginning early next year.

This was officially announced on September 17th, 2024, and is essentially a re-packaging of what they already have. The API for the accounting (“QuickBooks” re-labeled) portion of this Suite is the same as the QBO, which should tell you something about what exists underneath the hood.

The purpose of this offering is to get people off of the QuickBooks Enterprise Desktop and move them to the cloud. Intuit has been focused – feverishly over the past few years – to get rid of the desktop. Better for them in so many ways.

Enterprise Desktop does not have a comparative online offering, and this is their latest foray, and it buys time to make their accounting features more robust.

The QBO and IES offerings will be released together, with the pricing and delivery available upon direct inquiries to Intuit.

There are three ways we receive feedback:

• Repetitive help desk issues. This is the greatest source by volume. It pains us to see people struggle with something that we can fix – and we do fix it.
• Forums. This is the second greatest source by volume. We have an open forum where customers can post requests, which can be voted on. We have implemented over 90% of the suggestions from these forums for well over a decade.
• Customer Conversations. All our e-mail notifications include the ability to confirm a meeting time with our team, which usually includes our CEO Chuck Vigeant, who is still our chief architect, and considered the most knowledgeable person on the planet with regard to QuickBooks data extraction.