Financial software company Intuit has made significant changes to QuickBooks Online, allowing users -- especially small-business owners -- to do more than simply prepare their taxes. Intuit has released a revamped version of the popular web-based accounting program, making complicated bookkeeping tasks manageable for novice accountants and building in common sense integration for payroll, payment and other merchant services.
With today's release, the cloud-based software now works in conjunction with customer relationship management (CRM) apps for iOS and Android and supports third-party app integration. The new QuickBooks Online allows business users to simply customize the software to their needs and manage things like billable accounts, payroll, profits and losses and other business information all from one central dashboard.
"We've thought about how we can make it a product that's accessible to the smallest of the small businesses, the people who get a little overwhelmed by the idea of accounting," says Dan Wernikoff, senior vice president of Intuit Small Business Financial Solutions. "It has the power of QuickBooks with an experience that a small business can grasp."