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Hi Ruth. I’m using QuickBooks 2010. What is R16 or R17 is and where they help?
You can see which release you’re on by selecting F2 (it’ll be at the top of the Product Info window).

If you aren’t on R17, you can download it here:

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News Flash – Recent changes, improvements, and fixes in QuickBooks 2009 and QuickBooks Enterprise 9.0

The following changes, improvements, and fixes were made to QuickBooks Pro 2009, QuickBooks Premier 2009, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 9.0. Later releases (ones with higher numbers) include all changes in earlier releases.

NOTE: you must be logged in as the company file Administrator to update your company file from any previous releases to the R15 release.

Release 15 (R15)

Export
  • For some users of QuickBooks Desktop, there might be a strong need to have the power of QuickBooks combined with the collaborative flexibility of being on the web. To solve this need, an online version of QuickBooks has been developed (http://qbo.intuit.com). This new R15 release of QuickBooks 2009 includes a new menu item under the Company menu named “Export Company File to QuickBooks Online”. This will give users an easy migration path from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online..

Release 14 (R14)

Accounts Receivable
  • The due date for the resulting invoice will now be correctly calculated when you duplicate an invoice.
Application Integration
  • Loan manager and Cash Flow Projector now work when IE 9.0 is installed.
Upcoming Service Discontinuation
  • Changes to help you with Service Discontinuation which takes effect May 31, 2012.
PDF
  • QuickBooks should no longer display the error “could not print to printer” when emailing statements in batches.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • QuickBooks will no longer unexpectedly close when downloading fee transactions if the memo field contains non-alphanumeric characters.
QuickBooks Time Tracker
  • Because the Time Tracker feature is no longer supported by Intuit, the access points for this feature have been removed from QuickBooks 2009.

Release 13 (R13)

Application Integration
  • You can now open the Damaged Goods, Customer Returned Material Authorization and Non-Conforming Material Report forms in Microsoft Word 2010. (These forms are only available in the Manufacturing and Wholesale edition.)
Connected Services and Data Sync
  • The Intuit Sync Manager has been updated to the latest available version in QuickBooks 2009.
File Operations
  • The Verify log file (QBWin.log) will now display the Transaction Number and Form Number which is displayed on the form inside QuickBooks.
  • Built in Password Reset
    • QuickBooks can now reset your company file admin password from within the program.
    • Correct registration and license information is required to complete the process (to verify your identity).
  • The version of QuickBooks that a Portable File is from will now display when you hover the mouse cursor over the file name.
Help
  • Help topics for Memorized Transactions and many other help topics have been updated.
Payroll
  • Employer’s telephone number is now available to print on the paystub.
Shipping Manager
  • Shipping manager has been updated to version 7.5.

Release 12 (R12)

Accountant’s Copy
  • Opening a QBX file created by an Accountant’s Copy of a new .QBW file will no longer display an unexpected error and fail to import.
Close QuickBooks
  • QuickBooks will no longer display “Qbw32.exe Application Error” or “QuickBooks has stopped working” when closing.
Payroll
  • Payroll setup will no longer display Payroll Setup Error 00013 49033 when using manual payroll.
  • The Income Subject to Tax column can now edited on Liability Adjustment Transactions.
  • Payroll forms 941, 943, and 944 have been updated to comply with the HIRE act.
QuickBooks Merchant Services
  • When reconciling transactions from Merchant Services into QuickBooks, the subaccount information should now display correctly.

Release 11 (R11)

Company Snapshot
  • Company Snapshot now displays for the “…to Date” preset date ranges (e.g. This Year-to-date or This-Quarter-to-Date).
Payroll
  • The preference to “recall hour field on paychecks” is available again.
  • Historical paystubs are now sent to the View My Paycheck “Select Pay Stubs” window.
Payroll: Assisted Payroll
  • The current year SUI rate for some states can now be edited when the change meets the criteria of the States upper and lower limits.
PDF
  • 64 bit systems will now be compatible with the PDF printer driver. The error: “You cannot print directly to the the QuickBooks PDF Converter… ” should no longer be displayed.
Sales Tax
  • Sales Tax Revenue Summary report now displays correctly after updating to the R10 update.

Release 10 (R10

Sales Tax Reporting
  • Sales Tax Liability and Sales Tax Revenue reports now display properly.

Release 9 (R9)

Accountant Specific
  • The View/Export Changes for Client screen no longer contains changes entered in a previous Accountant’s Copy.
  • Toggling between skus no longer causes QuickBooks to close unexpectedly when Office 2007 is installed on the same computer.
Accountant’s Copy
  • The Accountant’s Copy feature now supports the Client Data Review “Reviewed” mark.
  • Client Data Review created by the accountant is now exported from Accountant’s Copy.
  • The accountant user is prevented from creating invoices from time and expenses data. In Accountant’s Copy, the menu item ‘Invoice from Time & Expenses’ will not be displayed when this preference is turned on by the client.
  • Import of Accountant’s Copy no longer fails when importing Payment Item amount in Credit memo/Refund.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an unrecoverable error when adding or deleting a group item in some Accountant’s Copy (.QBA) file.
Accounts Receivable
  • Using the notepad to enter notes for a customer in the middle of creating an invoice will no longer cause custom field data previously entered on the invoice to disappear.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display an “Action Cancelled” page when attempting to open Receive Payments or Create Sales Receipts on a computer with no internet connection.
  • QuickBooks no longer closes unexpectedly when creating an Estimate for a customer.
Application Integration
  • The QuickBooks support website now links to the correct version of the Synch Contacts tool. This allows users to download and install the new version so that QuickBooks will no longer display the message: QuickBooks Contact Sync 2.0 has encountered errors. Please close this dialog and restart sync.”
  • QuickBooks is now able to access URL containing special characters such as ampersand [&].
Backup and Restore
  • QuickBooks will no longer shut down with an unexpected error when rebuilding or backing up a QuickBooks company file that previously displayed the unexpected error.
  • Backup file size is no longer doubled if the backup is saved in the QuickBooks letter templates folder.
  • QuickBooks will now correctly backup files that have a file name longer than 64 characters.
Centers
  • Vendor Notes are now available from the Vendor Center.
Company File Upgrade
  • QuickBooks will now check the file for integrity before attempting to update it.
  • Upgrading files from QuickBooks versions prior to 2006 will no longer fail with an unexpected or fatal error.
Database
  • Resolved the Error -6032, -158: “An error occurred when QuickBooks tried to access the company file” when converting a company file from 2006 to 2009.
File Operations
  • Entering memorized transactions no longer fails when estimates are added to memorized txns (auto enter).
  • QuickBooks will now display the (-6000, -82) and the (-xxxx, -301) errors much less often.
Help
  • QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and Premier Accountant Edition no longer incorrectly states that Unit of Measure is not available in your version of QuickBooks when viewing certain help topics.
  • Help topics for Credit Card Protection have been updated.
Intuit Statement Writer
  • When using Intuit Statement Writer selecting multiple rows & using Excel command of Insert no longer causes copying of account name and values where they should not be.
Intuit Sync Manager
  • Incremental syncs via sync manager will now complete successfully.
Lists
  • Resolved an issue where Name Lists were not displaying.
Multi-Currency
  • Creating a refund now uses the selected currency as part of the criteria when auto-selecting a bank account for the check.
  • General Journal transactions in files with Multi Currency activated can now be modified as needed.
  • Statements that include detailed information from Invoices now show the currency without a dollar sign when the currency is not USD.
  • Currency information is no longer missing when Customer or Vendor Information is printed from within the centers.
  • When a transaction is edited while another user is in the Home Currency Adjustment window, the Home Currency Adjustment can no longer be saved without checking the file to see if existing transactions have been changed.
  • Realized gain/loss from a refund check created from a credit memo now posts to the Realized Gain/Loss report.
  • User without modify access to currency list can no longer download exchange rates.
  • Blank targets are no longer added to transactions after clearing & selecting a customer/vendor.
  • Setting a Discount without applying a payment with different exchange no longer causes an out of balance transaction.
  • Credit Memos applied to Invoices with different exchange rates no longer throw off sales tax amounts.
  • Changing the exchange rate on a Journal Entry paid by a bill credit now updates the exchange gain/loss.
  • Remaining Credit (Home) on transaction tab in customer center no longer displays amounts in negative.
  • Expenses tab now properly displays Bill Credit + Credit Card Refund w/ figures 12 digits or more.
  • Realized gain/loss from Credit Card charge linked to a Bill will now post to realized gain/loss report.
  • Creating an Invoice from a Sales Order at a different exchange rate (from currant list) no longer creates an out of balance Invoice.
  • Changing customer currency on sales receipt with items no longer displays the Edit Item Rate message twice.
  • The Beginning Balances in the Locate Discrepancies and Undo Last Reconciliation screen are no longer in a foreign currency.
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes when importing an Accountant’s copy that involves creation of a gain/loss account with multi currency on.
  • Currencies with exchange rate lower than 4 decimal places now print properly when printing the list.
  • Editing Exchange rate on a Credit Card Refund linked to a Credit Card Charge now updates the exchange gain/loss.
  • Editing the Exchange rate on a Credit Card Refund linked to a Bill Credit now updates the exchange gain/loss.
  • When applying ARRefundCreditCardAdd through the SDK to a multicurrency account, the balance total is now updated.
  • Editing the exchange rate on an auto-recalled bill no longer generates an out of balance transaction.
  • The currency field is now grayed out when Quick-Adding a job to a customer that already has a currency set.
  • QuickBooks now posts a warning message instead of unexpectedly closing (error code 15361 28781) when an attempt is made to deposit home currency amounts to a foreign bank account.
Payroll
  • QuickBooks will no longer display unrecoverable error 14775 when creating or sending payroll.
  • The Send Payroll confirmation report in QuickBooks now shows the employee and amounts.
  • QuickBooks now allows the next year’s rate to be entered on payroll items that are created after July 1st.
  • When a liability check has two detail lines for the same item and amount, both are now applied.
  • QuickBooks no longer incorrectly calculates the Withholding taxes incorrectly if the effective date of a withholding tax change is not at the beginning of a tax quarter or year, and the system date is prior to the effective date of the withholding tax change.
  • Employee Organizer no longer creates duplicate state withholding items.
  • QuickBooks now warns when an employee is added with a Social Security number already in the employee list.
Payroll: Assisted Payroll
  • Can now change the Paid Through date on a non-tax liability payment once sent if on the Assisted Payroll Service.
PDF
  • PDF Converter is no longer lost when upgrading to a new operating system.
  • Remote Desktop users accessing QuickBooks via terminal services are now able to save to pdf on Windows Server 2008 – 64 bit.
  • The background color will no longer turn black when saving a file as a PDF.
  • The PDF printer driver is now called version 3.0.
Printing
  • Can now print properly on Vista 64 bit OS pre SP1.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • QuickBooks Online Banking new account setup can now be completed when there is a PIN change required.
  • Payee names containing & are now displayed correctly.
  • The left hand side of the online banking screen is no longer black when no transactions are present on Windows Vista.
  • QuickBooks will no longer allow a non-USD currency bank account to import online transactions.
  • Using the Open option after logging into the bank’s website through QuickBooks will no longer display the “No new transactions” dialog when transactions are available
  • QuickBooks should no longer download duplicate transactions when a web connect file is imported a second time.
  • A credit card payment now defaults to Credit Card Credit instead of Credit card Payment. It will now have “CC CRED” instead of “TRNSFR” in the Chart of accounts. The radio buttons have also been reordered to show CC Credit first and then, CC Payment on the Right Hand Side of the Online Banking Side-by-Side screen.
  • The error “Alias already exists” is no longer displayed when changing a downloaded alias to another QuickBooks name.
  • The up and down arrow keys will now allow movement to the next transaction in the left hand side of the Side-by-side online banking screen.
  • When adding split lines to downloaded transactions in the Side-by-side online banking window, tabbing into the next field now highlights the existing text or puts the field into edit mode so it can be changed by typing without clicking on the selected field again.
  • The right hand and left hand sides of the online banking screen will no longer be out of sync after adding an online banking transaction from the Add Multiple feature.
  • QuickBooks no longer selects the ‘Deposit Online Banking transaction’ radio button when the ‘Record a QB deposit’ button should be selected after cancelling adding a new account in the online banking screen.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the Unexpected Error C=51 when using the Online Banking feature if names in the company file contain non-printable characters.
  • QuickBooks will no longer unexpectedly close when some renamed and matched transactions are processed with Finish Later while the manual match screen is open.
  • QuickBooks no longer closes unexpectedly when multicurrency is turned on and you quickadd a name in the Online Banking register.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the message that “Payee named [Vendor Name] detected” or, “This payee is already an online payee – please select a non-online payee.” when a bank updates its name or merges with another bank.
  • QuickBooks will no longer allow a non-USD currency bank account to be setup for Online Banking or Online Services.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays “Error: CleaningDownloadedPay in some use cases that were not fixed in prior releases.
  • Company files that do not have Multi Currency enabled will no longer filter the Undeposited Funds and Open Invoice transactions from the Online Banking screens.
  • Payees that are not setup as USD currency are not pre-filled in the online banking screens.
  • When there are unprintable characters in the the names used for Online Banking a warning is displayed and the Add Multiple screens do not open because the names cannot be used.
  • No longer get an Unexpected Error c=47 when accessing the online banking register view after updating a file from Pro to Premier.
QuickBooks Online Billing
  • Downloaded QuickBooks Billing Solutions payment creation no longer fails for payments with a discount and sub-account.
Reconcile
  • QuickBooks will no longer close unexpectedly with an error while reconciling when the service charge account or interest account have been deleted.
Reports
  • QuickBooks will no longer display an error and close unexpectedly when accessing the General Ledger report.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display an Out of Memory message when running the Audit Trail report for all dates.
  • Are now able to properly open memorized list reports after updating company files.
  • Having the preference “Show Lowest Sub-Account” and duplicate sub names no longer causes an error in when runing the Budget to Actual report.
  • The report is now displayed when selecting an industry specific job cost report.
  • The report is now displayed when selecting the Sales Tax Liability report.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the Out of Memory error when running reports that use a very large number of transactions.
SDK
  • SalesReceiptMod is no longer Accepting Invalid details of PriceLevel for an Item without showing any error
  • Unit of Measure is now coming up in ItemGroupQuery , ItemGroupMod ,ItemGroupAdd Response.
Startup
  • QuickBooks no longer displays the severe error: “MauiMain:IsIEPresentfailed. Exiting…” when launching QuickBooks on a Windows 7 computer that has Internet Explorer disabled.
  • QuickBooks now displays a message instead of closing unexpectedly when trying to login to some company files.
User Interface
  • Credit Total on Bill Credit History is now aligned properly when displaying more than 8 characters.
Users and Permissions
  • The customer credit card data stored in QuickBooks will no longer become corrupted in certain circumstances where the Admin password was changed.
  • The External Accountant user will no longer be restricted from using the Reconcile feature. It may be necessary to rebuild the company file after updating to R9 or later for this change to take effect.

Release 8 (R8)

Accountant’s Copy
  • QuickBooks will no longer remove the PDF print driver when saving Accountant’s changes as a PDF file.
Backup and Restore
  • Restoring a company backup file from Windows to Linux no longer generates an Assertion message.
  • Restoring a Backup with same name in linux machines no longer causes continuous assertion messages or damaged restored files.
Centers
  • QuickBooks now verifies before displaying the notes, to see if the current user has a right to modify the employee. If the user has Modify permissions then the user will now be able to see the employee notes.
Client Data Review
  • The Sales Tax report in Client Data review will now only show checks.
Company File Update
  • The icon bar settings from QuickBooks 2007 will now be correctly updated to QuickBooks 2009 when a company file is updated.
Database
  • Running QuickBooks Database Manager on IBM SmartCube on Linux, will no longer fail to establish a Multi-User connection to the company file.
  • Many instances of the (-6xxx, -82) error displayed during a file update have been fixed.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display a (-6000, -305) error when it is caused by a missing or damaged TLG file but the company file is not damaged.
  • QuickBooks now sends database crash information for some database errors using the send error system in QuickBooks.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display error code 19233 71018 when opening a company file.
Excel (Send Reports to Excel)
  • Running a state tax form report in a file with new taxes setup will now export properly to Excel.
File Operations
  • QuickBooks will no longer display a connection lost message during when Verifying the company file. Verify now reports any problems with the file and Rebuild is able to complete.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display a generic failure message during Verify data when minor data issues are encountered. The correct error will now be displayed and running Rebuild Data will correct the problem instead of producing a crash error message.
  • Intuit has identified, and created a solution for, a potential security vulnerability in some of our Quickbooks desktop software. For more information see: http://www.quickbooks.com/security
Help
  • Help has been added for GoPayment, a mobile payment solution.
Install
  • Prior versions of QuickBooks will no longer display the update error 15240 after uninstalling QuickBooks 2009.
Intuit Statement Writer
  • QuickBooks Will no longer display the Fatal Error: Unable to open statement: FSD.Common.FSDException: Error while opening statement —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A03EC) after modifying a statement using Office 2007 and re-opening.
Live Community
  • The Live Community password recovery system will no longer display blank content.
Multi-Currency
  • QuickBooks will now correctly restrict the user to choosing a bank account that matches the currency of the Undeposited Funds account when making a deposit.
  • Assertion error messages no longer occur when manually written checks are applied to a existing bills for a vendor when Multi-Currency is enabled.
  • Entering cash back on deposit and then entering exchange rate no longer causes incorrect gain/loss
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes when clicking “Go to pay bills” on write checks if the message that exchange set to 1 appears.
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes when Paying a bill through a check for a Vendor who has a different currency.
  • Paying Accounts Receivable balance created from check with a credit memo now creates the exchange gain/loss.
Payroll
  • QuickBooks will no longer allow the year to be changed when modifying the date on a recorded paycheck.
  • Payroll Help Topics have been updated, including the economic stimulus.
  • Connecticut liability payments will now be split by quarter when the period the payment covers is in part of each quarter.
  • There is a new message instructing customers to sync their file with the payroll service before creating an accountant’s copy.
  • QuickBooks will prompt for the frequency to be entered for some state payroll items where tax laws have recently changed.
  • The handling of Rounding adjustments have been improved.
  • Payments for payroll liabilities such as 401k and Health Insurance will no longer fail to be applied correctly when the frequency spans a calendar year.
  • The liabilities and payments matching has been improved.
  • A user who does not have the permission to “Modify” a paycheck and tries editing a paycheck, on trying to save using the “Save & Close” button, are now given a warning saying that they don’t have the edit permissions for that action.
Payroll: Assisted Payroll
  • Customers who are actively using Assisted payroll will no longer see an Edit button in the Service Key window. When the service key needs to be changed it will require a contact to Assisted Payroll. The changes will flow into QuickBooks the next time the a payroll is sent.
Preferences
  • The Home page no longer is displayed after backup when the “display home page” preference is not selected.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • Now get a warning that account is required instead of the less obvious error ‘system.NullReferenceException: object refrence not set to an instance of an object at OLB_Workflow.UICtrl_AddMultiple.ValidateRow..’.
  • No longer get the message “Error: Transaction could not be created” after importing some .qbo files that import without error the second time.
  • Clicking through the grid no longer causes the dialog to show up when there is nothing in the specific field.
  • Quickfill will now only take into account what the user has typed, not what has been put in the field by QuickBooks when typing in account names.
  • Once an account name quickfills, hitting the right arrow key no longer causes the cursor to move to the next field. The cursor will now go to the end of the string.
  • The “Name not found” dialog box no longer comes up when you click the show split link
  • After selecting Add Multiple, the selected value in the payee field now saves when leaving cell using DownArrow/UpArrow keys.
  • The Quickfill now works when you are editing a field.
  • Help topics for online banking’s Add Multiple feature were updated.
  • In the Add Multiple, if you type a name not recognized by QB in the Payee field and press the down arrow, the field is no longer prefilled with a QB name and the Add New window appears instead.
  • Tabbing through the fields no longer brings up the Select Name Type dialog if the Payee is blank.
  • Pressing the UpArrow key in the Payee dropdown now moves to
  • Using the down Arrow no longer selects the next item on the list when the dropdown is not open.
  • Pressing key from Account field (last row) moves focus to “Add Selected” instead of “Cancel”.
  • Accounts created by Add Multiple New are now prefilled in the Account cell – window.
  • The last name added via Add New no longer appears in the Payee field next time Add New is selected.
  • The online banking workflow redraws properly now without leaving extra lines.
  • You can now select a specific account to download instead of always downloading for all accounts.
  • Quickfill for short name now works properly. If you have customer:job (parent:job1:job2) and you type job 2, Quickfill will now fill properly.
  • Drop downs now show correct account selection for the quickfilled account like if you have expense account “m” and income account “ma”. Typing m then clicking the drop down will now go to the “m” account instead of the “ma” account.
  • You can now quickfill to a vendor name if a customer has a similar name.
  • Quickfill will now quickfill properly in Deposit grid & Add Multiple grid.
  • All data is now preserved after entering info and tabbing from one filed to another.
  • Alt-R opens the Reports menu and does not remove selected line in the online banking workflow.
  • When using Add Multiple – Pressing after using up/dn arrow to select will now bring up “Add New”
  • When recording a QuickBooks deposit in Online Banking, the checkbox to select available open invoices is now selectable.
  • When on an account that has only matched transactions and the enter key is selected while the Add Multiple window is open, you no longer get the error “System.nullReferenceException”.
  • The quickfill of an account name that has similar characters to other account names in the list has been improved.
  • Turning off class tracking in preferences while editing an online banking transaction with the cursor in the class field will no longer cause the error “‘System.ArgumentOutOfRange…at OLBUICustomeControlLibrary.SimpleTransaction.HideTablecolumn.
  • QuickBooks online banking now offers the option to switch to classic mode. The screens for matching transactions will look identical to the matching screens from QuickBooks 2008!
  • A new preference has been added to the Checking preferences to allow a choice between the 2008 Online Banking screens and the 2009 screens.

Release 7 (R7)

Accountant’s Copy
  • Payment items on invoices created in the accountant’s copy now correctly import when the accountant’s changes are imported.
  • Using large or small exchange rates no longer cause QuickBooks to crash while creating invoices, sales receipts or credit memos.
  • Exchange rate of .00000000000001 displays correctly now rather than displaying as .00000000.
  • Importing a modified but previously existing payment will no longer fail.
  • When a transaction fails to import, subsequent reconciliations affected by the transaction will be skipped.
  • The ‘Save as PDF’ default location is now set to the same location where the company file is located.
  • Import completes without generating an error when Expense account of Credit Card Charge/Credit was changed to an AP or Sales Tax Payable account.
  • Account numbers that were blank before the accountant review will no longer use the first non-blank value as the original value. The original value will now be retained as blank.
Accounts Payable
  • Deleting a deposit with a payment as one of the items no longer causes an Unexpected Error code. It also will no longer create orphan links that require a Rebuild of the data file.
Application Integration
  • The Intuit Statement Writer opening screen now displays a help link for supporting documents.
Database
  • Exempt Organization non-profit (Tax Form 990) has been updated.
File Operations
  • QuickBooks 2009 is now able to convert a Quicken 2009 data file for use in Quickbooks.
  • QuickBooks product information screen will no longer display file sizes larger than 2GB as a negative number.
  • Portable company files created from company files larger than 2 GB in size can now be restored successfully.
  • QuickBooks no longer display an unexpected error after importing a name list from an IIF file.
Install
  • The default options for installing the QuickBooks PDF have been updated to make it compatible with 64 bit Operating Systems. QuickBooks can now print to PDF when installed on a 64 bit Operating system.
  • QuickBooks can now be installed on Windows Vista Business edition with Service Pack 1.
Intuit Statement Writer
  • Splitting out accounts and inserting a row in between accounts no longer carries over cell protection.
  • Intuit Statement writer now removes invalid characters detected in the company name when creating new to prevent errors from being generated.
  • All supporting documents from Financial Statement are now migrated into Intuit Statement Writer.
  • Split accounts now lists accounts in the same order as they appear in the Chart of Accounts.
  • COGS balance now reports correctly in Intuit Statement Writer when splitting out sub COGS accts in Income Statement.
  • Financial Statement Designer now works properly when QuickBooks Enterprise 9.0 and QuickBooks 2009 are installed on the same system.
  • Statement Date now gets formatted properly after performing “Insert Statement Date”.
  • Added columns in Budget-to-Actual statements can now be renamed without generating unhandled exception errors.
  • Intuit Statement Writer now has an option to tell it not to print 0.00 balance accounts.
  • There is now a link to on the action pane toolbar to open the supporting documents.
  • Amounts now come over properly from QuickBooks when creating balance sheet or the income statements that include information from subaccounts.
Invoices
  • The toolbars have been added back to the Credit Card Processing Kit and to Invoice Manager.
Lists
  • List Review now displays all changes and not just the last change. Previously if you changed something from A to B, then from B to C, then from C to D, List Review would only show a change from C to D.
  • List Review now displays the correct “New Value” when Modifying Asset Account of an item.
  • List Review now tracks the modified Asset Account of Fixed Asset Item.
  • Customer Contact Information no longer changes or disappears when changing to a sub-job or parent.
Multi-Currency
  • Home currency based Journal Entries no longer fails import when the account gets modified to a foreign currency.
  • SDK request containing General Journal Entry with a foreign currency account no longer returns the error “The currency of the account must be either in home currency or the transaction currency”.
  • Currency format “Space” for thousands separator is now retained when selected.
  • Exchange Rates are now highlighted in the Accountants Copy for the Begin Reconciliation and Enter Adj Exchange Rate windows.
  • The Date, Currency and Exchange Rate are now highlighted in Home Currency Adjustment window when working in an Accountant Copy.
  • International characters in lists are now displayed correctly, the ‘À’ displays properly rather than displaying as A.
  • Choosing to add an additional column ‘Amounts in USD’ no longer displays the amounts as negative in the Employee Center after enabling Multi-Currency.
  • Changing the customer‘s sale tax code default from taxable to non-taxable on the sale receipt no longer processes on the IMS site at the lower (non sales tax amount) while saving at the higher (profile default sales tax amount) in QuickBooks.
Payroll
  • It is no longer possible to select a settlement date for MD UI or UT EFPT. because the state does not act on the information. There is now a message that explains this change.
  • QuickBooks will no longer allow the year to be changed when modifying the date on a recorded paycheck.
  • The accounts drop down in the After The Fact Payroll screen will no longer show existing or new non-USD accounts when the MC accounts feature is on.
  • The number of voided paychecks has been added to the existing display of Send/Receive payroll data.
  • When payroll forms are processed from the payroll tab of the employee center the screen will now return to the payroll tab instead of the employee center instead.
  • QuickBooks now correctly displays all of the text the server replies with after entering an incorrect PIN.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display error code 2088839915 and close when paying employees.
  • Payroll liabilities will no longer appear overdue after they have been paid if the through date on the liability checks does not match the liability payment period end-date.
  • The first regular pay item and the first salary item will no longer be populated by the values of sick and vacation items paid in the last pay check.
  • QuickBooks will now provide a link to Help content when a 941 or 943 form have values above 9.999,999.99.
  • The IRS reason codes that appear to customers when they submit a penalty payment to the IRS will be updated to reflect the current IRS guidelines. For example, “Assessed Deficiency” will be removed as a choice.
  • QuickBooks will no longer restrict a new user from resetting their PIN until the Admin had logged out and logged back in.
  • Several payroll help topics have been updated.
  • QuickBooks will no longer prevent employee direct deposit settings from being removed when necessary.
  • The instructions to help find the routing number used for EFT have been updated.
  • Employee notes can no longer be viewed by users who do not have payroll access rights.
  • Worker’s compensation preferences and menus will no longer be incorrectly disabled for Assisted Payroll users.
  • The “Use Direct Deposit” check mark will no longer be automatically checked in the Pay Employees workflow when the Direct Deposit options have been disabled on the employee.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • Data on the right hand side of the Online Banking Window is no longer automatically removed after adding a class in the AddMultiple window.
  • The first split line of a transaction is now Pre-filled with the total amount.
  • The message “System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at OLB_Workflow.UICtrl_AddMultiple.ValidateRow(Int32 nRowIndex)” no longer occurs when having a row selected in the Add Multiple screen, typing a new payee name in , and then clicking in a different row.
  • Access to other areas of QuickBooks while the Online Banking Add transactions to QuickBooks window is open. For example:
    • Users can go to other QuickBooks forms to create matching transactions. Then, when they return to Online Banking, the downloaded transaction will be matched.
    • If users need to use Items they can go to Write Checks or Record Credit Card Charges to create a matching transaction.
    • Users can also refer to their register while they have the Online Banking window open.
  • Manual Match: Messages now display properly on top rather than behind the Online Banking Window when transactions are selected.
  • The Add New option now appears on the Account dropdown in a Deposit transaction.
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes when trying to load Online Banking when the company file has more than 65535 names.
  • Bills now display properly if Use Account number is enabled in Preferences.
  • The table with the bills is now updated after changing a vendor and tabbing out from the Vendor field.
  • Full downloaded amount will automatically appear when opening splits and deposits for users to edit.
  • Online banking will run faster (users with larger files will see the biggest improvement).
Reports
  • Income Expense Graph Balance values now display correctly in company snapshot.
  • When modifying the Time by Job summary report to include an Estimated column, the hours will no longer suddenly move to the Estimated column.
SDK
  • Payment line items on invoices entered via the SDK no longer lose their amount. This only happened when Multi- Currency was enabled.
  • Checks can now be added through the SDK with Credit Memos.

Release 6 (R6)

File Operations
  • QuickBooks no longer displays error (-6177, 0) when opening a company file on the root drive or some network locations.
Inventory
  • Some Sales Orders are incorrectly marked as closed when group items or unit of measure items are used.

Release 5 (R5)

Centers
  • The graph on the company snapshot has been improved.
Database
  • Many causes of error (-6000, -83) have been corrected.
  • QuickBooks no longer leaves databasemanager.dll running after it obtains a file’s QuickBooks information.
  • Many causes of the error (-6177,0) have been corrected.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • The Manual Match screen no longer says “downloaded” in the first sentence.
  • The ManualMatch screen now correctly displays the transactions’ number and payee.
  • New names can now be added inside the Online Banking Workflow. This is called “Add New.”
  • The Add check box is no longer automatically checked when tabbing past transactions in the Add Multiple workflow.
  • The Add New screen now displays a message “Name Not Found” if you erase the payee and try to continue.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays “Error: CleaningDownloadedPayee” in the Add Multiple or Online Banking workflow screens.
  • QuickBooks now handles special characters with online banking transactions.
  • Confirming an automatched transaction no longer causes the payee to change.
  • The Manual Match for downloaded transactions is now available. When the downloaded transaction is not automatically matched, it can now be matched (by changing the transaction) without closing the Online Banking Center.
  • QuickBooks now allows a batch of multiple transactions to be added to QuickBooks from the Online Banking Center.
  • The “quick fill” or “auto fill” of a list item in the Online Banking Center (typing the first few characters of a payee or account) has been improved.

Release 4 (R4)

Accountant’s Copy
  • The Accountant’s Copy Change Report now allows the user to “QuickZoom” the transaction by double- clicking the listed imported transactions.
  • The messaging displayed when updating an Accountant’s Copy (.QBX) file from QuickBooks 2008 to QuickBooks 2009 has been updated to communicate the level of backwards compatibility between the Accountant’s Copy features of each version.
  • The Accountant’s Copy no longer updates the Check Number field when importing the Accountant’s changes. The Check Number field was not intended to be changeable by the Accountant.
  • QuickBooks now automatically saves the Change Report as a PDF at the end of an Accountant’s Copy import.
  • The Client Data Review feature now shows items that were previously hidden while in an Accountant’s Copy. If these features are accessed, a message appears explaining that these features are not available.
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes while importing Accountant’s Copy changes after the client restrictions have been removed.
  • QuickBooks no longer appears to be frozen while saving Accountant’s Changes in PDF format. A message now appears with information while the PDF is being created.
  • QuickBooks no longer automatically saves a PDF report of the Accountant Changes when the import failed because of an invalid transaction.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an unexpected or fatal error when importing an Accountant’s Copy file that contains unsupported Finance Charge changes from a different version of QuickBooks.
  • Quickbooks no longer crashes after applying an invoice, and then switching to the vendor tab.
  • Quickbooks no longer crashes after applying a payment to deposit and then editing the payment item.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an unexpected error and closes when importing Accountant’s Copy changes that include a Home Currency Adjustment.
  • When importing an Accountant’s Copy, the Multi-Currency Exchange rate change is now imported for existing Receive Payment transactions.
  • QuickBooks versions prior to QuickBooks 2009 no longer display messages about the External Accountant user, because this user is a feature only available in QuickBooks 2009 and later.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display a severe error when importing a deposit through the accountant’s copy that contained multiple currencies.
  • Multi-currency Exchange Rates entered by accountants to Journal Entry are now imported.
Accounts Payable
  • Account Payable field has been added to “Record a Bill Pmt” if there are multiple Account Payable accounts.
  • While in the Record an Expense workflow, when a Vendor that has open bills is selected, a message appears saying, “This vendor has open bills. To add a bill payment, click the ‘Not an expense?’ link in the upper right and then click ‘Select open bills to pay in QuickBooks.’
  • Open bills for an inactive Account Payable is no longer displayed in the Pay Bills workflow.
Accounts Receivable
  • Negative amounts on the Deposit workflow no longer appear with parentheses.
  • If the deposit amount is larger that the Invoice amount, the Receive Payment is now linked to the Invoice.
  • Payment balance of $0.00 has been removed from Payment Receipt to prevent the possibility of user confusion caused by thinking the account balances might be $0.00 when user is actually still owed money.
  • QuickBooks no longer attempts to connect to the Internet before opening the Receive Payments or Create Sales Receipts screens when no Internet connection is available.
Backup & Restore
  • Scheduled backup no longer fails when different scheduled tasks (for different company file) run at the same time.
  • You can now make a manual backup of one file while a scheduled backup is running for a second file.
  • The backup that is made before upgrading from QuickBooks 2006 to QuickBooks 2009 now has QuickBooks 2006 as the header and not QuickBooks 2009 as the header, making the backup usable in QuickBooks 2006.
Centers
  • Turning off price levels no longer causes the Custom Field Label to obscure the first field in the customer Custom Fields.
  • The Income/Expense graph widget in the Company snapshot is now updated, based on the saved Report preferences.
Client Data Review
  • The performance of the Client Data Review tool has been improved. Switching between Vendors and Customers or Vendor transactions and Customer transactions is much faster.
  • Items in the Client Data Review that are reviewed and marked with an R, now retain the R, even when future changes are made to the items.
  • The QuickZoom and Adjustments on the Working Trial Balance are now available to External Accountant users in QuickBooks Pro.
Copy File for QuickBooks Mac
  • Copies of files for QuickBooks Mac now import to QuickBooks Mac.
Database Server Manager
  • If the network goes down while changing from Single User mode, you can now change to Multi-User mode.
  • The messaging included with errors (-6000, -83) and (-6177, 0) has been updated to improve the customer experience.
  • The TLG file now gets truncated for the hosted company file when Incremental syncs occur.
File Operations
  • QuickBooks.com websites now communicate with QuickBooks 2009 to set up a “persona” that helps provide knowledgebase and support suggestions based on certain product and system information collected and stored in the persona. No personally identifiable information is stored.
Financial Statement Designer
  • Financial Statement Designer no longer displays an error locating the data.fsd folder when the only installed Edition of QuickBooks is an Enterprise edition.
Form Templates
  • Column order now auto-adjusts correctly on templates.
Google Desktop Search
  • The Google Desktop Search plugin now correctly indexes the system and the QuickBooks file on 64bit computers.
Help
  • The “Information about updating company files” section of Help Topic was rewritten to be more complete.
  • Help topic “Write a refund check for an overpayment” now incorporates the “Overpayment” prompt that appears in the lower left corner of the Receive Payments window. This allows users to automatically issue a refund without having to select the Banking menu and select Write Checks.
  • The Multicurrency Resource Center menu item now opens the Resource Center.
  • Content was added to Help topic explaining why Billing Solutions aren’t available for non-US transactions.
  • Help topics were added explaining changing the QuickBooks on-screen font sizes.
  • Help topics were added to address the new External Account feature.
  • The E-Book link in Premier now goes to the proper website that does not require an access code.
  • Help Topics were added to address the Client Data Review feature.
  • 3 Help topics were added: International payments (overview), Enter a foreign customer payment in QuickBooks, and Enter a foreign bill payment in QuickBooks. These topics are available only when Multi-Currency is on.
Intuit Statement Writer
  • There is now an Intuit Statement Writer option to bring back all One Time Messages that were previously dismissed.
  • The Statement Date Format in the Intuit Statement Writer now changes the row height based on the contents of the cell.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer displays the Error: “Unable to access file to insert the manifest into the xls file” when trying to open a .qsm file if a .xls file with the same name is in the same location.
  • Insert is now greyed out when the ability to insert should be disabled.
  • The stylesheeets have been updated to allow formulas to take effect right away when inserting data between existing columns.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer displays the error: Data.xls exception when ISW.Header2 is Bold and Font is “Brush Script MT” in Excel 2007.
  • If a modal dialog is open in QuickBooks, it no longer causes Intuit Statement Writer to close unexpectedly when creating a statement.
  • QuickBooks now displays a warning when opening the Intuit Statement Writer for the first time if the user is not a Quickbooks Administrator. Previously, the Statement Writer just did not open.
  • Intuit Statement Writer Migration Utility no longer allows the user to specify a folder to save the migrated file in. This should always be the default folder.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer displays an Extra line for Total Liabilities when on a Balance Sheet statement converted from Financial Statement Designer.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer show an incorrect 0 value for prior period variance in files converted from Financial Statement Designer.
  • The Statement Out of Balance no longer calculate inconsistently when the rounding and floating point precision are used.
  • Statements converted from Financial Statement Designer no longer have complex ambiguous names like QBFS{- 1284723897489273489}.
  • Intuit Statement Writer now correctly calculates Income (Loss) Before Taxes in statements converted from Financial Statement Designer.
  • When duplicate account names are encountered, Intuit Statement Writer now displays a message listing the duplicate names and suggesting that the user edit accounting preferences to clear the “Show lowest subaccount only” checkbox. Previously a Fatal Error message: “QuickBooks SDK returned an invalid result” appeared.
  • Financial Statement Designer now launches without error on Windows Vista computers. Previously the errors “callback application cannot be found” and “class not registered error code 132″ appeared. The errors did not prevent Financial Statement Designer from opening.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer removes custom formatting setup using Excel features when data is refreshed from QuickBooks.
  • Intuit Statement Writer now opens the correct Web page when choosing to purchase via the Internet.
  • Intuit Statement Writer no longer un-hides columns hidden using Excel functionality when Intuit Statement Writer is refreshed.
  • The Supporting Documents have been updated to include the merge fields Client_Country, Client_Legal_Country and Basis. Microsoft Word no longer displays “unrecognized merge field” errors when creating a supporting document using the template.
  • Intuit Statement Writer now hides the QuickZoom button when the highlighted cell cannot be QuickZoomed.
  • QuickZooming from Intuit Statement Writer no longer maximizes QuickBooks when it was not maximized before.
Lists
  • The QuickBooks list review screen no longer fails to show updated description information for a Sales Tax Group item that was created in prior versions of QuickBooks, then updated to QuickBooks 2009 and edited.
Multi-Currency
  • Currency formatting has been improved on transactions shown in the print preview screen before they are saved.
  • Line items are no longer affected by exchange rate changes for purchase transactions.
  • Values In Transaction/Home Currency now appear and print on the Transaction Summary Reports.
  • An unexpected error no longer occurs when saving a new Vendor in the Vendor Center when the list is sorted by currency.
  • A customer’s currency can now be changed if a price level is associated with the Customer.
  • Invoice now shows amounts for a customer in the currency set for that customer, rather than showing all amounts on the invoice as USD.
  • Transactions added using the SDK now allow depositing into home currency accounts from foreign currency accounts.
  • When entering exchange rates, using the tab key no longer results in uneditable date entry.
  • QuickBooks no longer calculates and displays the total of the Foreign Amount column. This total does not translate to any real amount when more than 1 foreign currency is used.
  • Cash-basis balance sheet no longer goes out of balance with checks, GJE, or credit card charges with split lines of a/r or a/p – when paid and gain/loss is attached.
  • Deleting a check/GJE/credit card charge with an a/r or a/p split – linked to a payment now deletes the gain/loss amount from the payment transaction.
  • The columns for Sick Rate, Vacation Limit, Vacation Rate and Vacation Available are now available columns to select on the Employee Contact List, Paid Time Off List, Emergency Contact List, New Hire List, and Terminated Employees List reports.
  • Multi Currency on exchange rate on the assess finance charges windows now defaults based on date.
Payroll
  • The display of the tax rate for SDI was updated for the new year.
  • You no longer see the message “QuickBooks is having trouble installing your Payroll Tax Forms Updates” when the print engine is not installed properly.
  • Customers living in Alaska and California are now able to set up the Occupational, Geographical, and Wage Plan codes using the Payroll Setup feature.
  • The text on the Print/E-file Form screen for W-2/W-3 no longer displays instructions from last year. (This change appeared as part of another update but should show up about the time Release 4 is made available.)
  • The AK and CA codes now flow to the forms when there are more than 10 employees and they are all missing social security numbers.
Payroll: Assisted Payroll
  • QuickBooks now notifies customers who use outsourced payroll products of the availability of the QuickBooks Online and Assisted Payroll Services.
Payroll: E-File and Pay
  • The labels and text fields of the File and Pay screen are no longer displayed incorrectly when using 120 DPI fonts.
QuickBooks Merchant Services
  • QuickBooks 2009 QBMAS Authorization receipt now displays “Authorization,” instead of “Sale” after initial transaction.
  • Deleting a duplicate sales receipt with a processed credit card payment no longer causes QuickBooks to close.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • The QuickFill of list elements in the Online Banking workflow has been improved.
  • Tooltips no longer appear when you mouse over matched online banking transactions.
  • Messaging now appears if you attempt to enter a non-existent vendor name for an online payment.
  • The memo field is now only pre-filled when a payee is selected for online banking transactions.
  • Record a Bill Payment: The number field is no longer editable if the downloaded transaction already has a number.
  • You nNo longer get the message “..System.Xml.XmlException: >is an unexpected token ..” when the Online Banking WorkFlow is initiated and the Names list has more than 32768 names.
  • QuickBooks no longer crashes when you add an Online Banking Transaction with a class containing special characters.
  • Sales receipts added to deposits are now removed from un-deposited funds transaction list when matched to online banking transactions.
  • You cCan now use names with <>without getting the message “..Unknown Tag in Window Text : <1>, function…”.
  • Accounts no longer appear twice in the Account dropdown after an account is added in the Online Banking Work Flow.
  • The item “Add New” is now available on the Credit Card Payment workflow.
  • Quickfill now works with multiple account associations.
  • Quickfill now works with long names that prefill.
  • When the Account Numbers Preference is ON, the QuickFill now works when a name is typed.
  • The “Add to QuickBooks” button now appears when all options are displayed.
  • Sorting by date now sorts by date properly in the table for unmatched transactions.
  • All unmatched transaction appear when selecting Show all.
  • Transactions with an asterisk are now included in the auto-match to downloaded transactions.
  • “Match to a Register…” now appears for Manual Match on credit card accounts, instead of the “Record a Liability Payment” workflow.
  • The error “XML>Exception: ‘<’ is an unexpected token..” no longer appears when selecting the Manual Match option for an account.
  • Unmatched transactions are no longer selected if the date falls in the last 30 days and today’s date is checked.
  • .Net error “Unhandled exception …object refernce not set to an instance of an object…” no longer appears if Manual Match is selected and there no unmatched transactions.
  • Sets of unmatched transactions no longer change after switching back and forth between views.
  • QuickBooks now displays the Online Banking center much faster.
  • QuickBooks now closes help screens before opening the Online Banking Workflow screen so that the screens do not conflict with one another.
  • Permission warnings no longer appear when the amounts match and the previous manual match was for a different amount.
  • Account numbers no longer appear in the drop-down menus when the Use Account Numbers preferences is OFF.
  • You nNo longer see the error “System.NullReferenceException … at OLB_Workflow.UICtrl_OLBWorkflow.IsNameOnList(ComboBoxQB ctr, String strNewName)” when adding a new name with an open balance in a split table.
  • You no longer get the message “Error:QB and OLB Not Match ” when manually matching TRANSF to a credit card accounts.
  • The associated account is now brought over to the transaction when the payee is entered by typing part of the payee name.
  • After creating Payment Inquiry Request and Payment Cancellation Requests, they are now viewable in the Outbox.
  • Account Association is now working in the credit card and liability accounts.
QuickBooks Online Services
  • Manage Services>Intuit Sync Manager menus are now available from the Onlines Solutions menu.
QuickBooks Web Connector
  • Web Connector has been updated to the latest release.
Reports
  • QuickBooks no longer displays the message: Unexpected Error 20125 14039 when you modify the Billed/Unbilled Hours by Person report.
  • The Unrealized Gains/Losses report no longer includes Home Currency Adjustments.
SDK
  • The proper versioning of Contact Sync is now shown during the installation and launch of Contact Sync.
  • QuickBooks no longer launches an Outlook Express warning when you create a statement charge. The warning might have caused QuickBooks to close.
  • Requests no longer fail for applications that issue a VendorQuery and the vendor has any pre-filled accounts set.
Startup
  • QBWebConnect no longer displays an error when launching QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.
User Interface
  • All bills can now be selected on Vista machines that have large fonts enabled.
Users and Permissions
  • Users with View permission can now view general information for Vendors, Customers, and Employees.
Utilities
  • Under File->Utilities, a menu item was added. When QuickBooks Messenger is disabled, the menu item is “Enable QuickBooks Messenger.” When it is enabled, the item is “Disable QuickBooks Messenger.”
  • Conversion from Peachtree and MS Office Accounting is now supported for QuickBooks 2009.

Release 3 (R3)

QuickBooks Error Reporting
  • QuickBooks no longer displays anassertion failed error messages that started occurring in QuickBooks 2009 Release 2.

Release 2 (R2

Accountant’s Copy
  • QuickBooks no longer displays the error “Portfile:DBUnload has failed” when you create an Accountant’s Copy qbx file.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an alert referring to DHSQLReloadDatabase when you convert an Accountant’s copy file to a company file.
Backup & Restore
  • QuickBooks now correctly prompts to backup the company file when the “backup every n times” option is setup, even if the file was open in multi-user mode.
Copy File for QuickBooks Mac
  • When Exporting for Mac, the files that are created from the export were always 88 bytes in size and had no data in them. This has been corrected so your information is now exported for Mac and will import to the Mac version.
File Operations
  • Double clicking a QuickBooks 2008 company file no longer fails to open it in QuickBooks 2008 when QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 9.0 is also installed.
  • File operations in QuickBooks may fail if Sync Mgr or Scheduled Backup is in the file performing a task when the file operation is initiated. For example, a sync could be quietly in progress when a user performs a QuickBooks file operation such as Condense or Restore. The QuickBooks file operation might then fail because it is unable to gain exclusive access to the file due to the file still being open by Sync Mgr or Scheduled Backup. QuickBooks now locks the file to perform the file operations and then lets the Sync Mgr or Scheduled Backup resume the previous operation.
Help
  • A new help topic was added for the Simple Start Homepage.
  • A new help topic was added for the Invoice Manager Homepage.
  • A menu command was added to the Statement Writer menu for the Community forums.
Intuit Statement Writer
  • When you see a message about protected cells and you dismiss the message, the program returns to normal operation instead of producing the not responding state.
  • This was changed to always select the top row when done, regardless of first row clicked while selecting rows to roll up.
  • This was modified to take the Total column into account when it exists and to allow you to choose Total columns as well as Amount columns.
  • All explanatory text now appears without being cut off next to fields or columns.
Live Community
  • QuickBooks SimpleStart now correctly displays questions related to the home screen when using the Live Community feature.
  • The Home Screen is now completely visible when the Live Community screen is also open.
  • The Live Community screen now displays the correct topics for the Edit Renaming Rules screen for Online Banking.
  • When Live Community is enabled in the Desktop preferences, the the prompt to show Live Community when QuickBooks starts is displayed at the appropriate times.
Multi User / Hosting
  • The balance sheet no longer goes out of balance in cases where multiple bills were paid in a single Pay Bills session while accessing the file in multi-user mode.
Payroll: E-File & Pay
  • Previously when you tried to eFile forms, nothing would happen or there would be no result when the forms were sent. Your forms now go through with eFile.
Portable Company File
  • QuickBooks no longer displays the alert “Severe Error: Unknown error status code from DBUnload: -1″ when saving a portable file on a computer that does not host the company file.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an unknown DBUnload error when creating a portable company file if a Data Sync is running in the background.
QuickBooks Merchant Services
  • The situation where a modal window could get “stuck” behind the Homepage rendering QuickBooks useless until dismissed was changed so the modal window is no longer modal.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an Unhandled Exception error when clicking the Select items to Delete button in the online banking workflow.
  • QuickBooks no longer fails to release exclusive use of the Online Banking feature when there are not accounts setup for Online Banking.
  • QuickBooks now displays the correct message when a user does not have adequate permissions for Online Banking: You need Checking and Credit Cards and Sensitive Accounting Activities permission to perform this action. Ask your QuickBooks Administrator to grant you this permission.
  • QuickBooks now changes the display based on what type of connection to your FI is chosen. The choices are Web Connect or Direct Connect.
  • The QuickBooks Balance in the Online Banking center now correctly refreshes to match the balance in the QuickBooks Chart of Accounts.
  • The QuickBooks Online Banking Center is now saved as part of the QuickBooks Desktop when the Desktop is Saved. The Online Banking Center appears when the file is opened again.
  • The Amount to Pay column can now be re-sized when paying bills using Online Banking.
  • Ctrl + F4 now correctly closes the open popup message and not the Online Banking Center.
  • The payment information dialog in the Online Banking Center for Credit Card accounts now opens if it is highlighted and the enter key is pressed.
  • QuickBooks no longer incorrectly displays the message “Payment amount cannot be left blank. Resetting value to amount owed.” when sorting bills.
  • All of the columns in the Select Items to Delete screen are now right justified.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the “entered item not found…” message in the Online Banking Center when paying bills if the payee is not a vendor.
  • Inactive sub-classes are no longer displayed in the class dropdown of the Online Banking workflow screen.
  • QuickBooks now prompts you to save the changes to a transaction that has been modified when the Renaming rules interface is opened.
  • The Alias for a vendor is now removed when a new vendor is created with an identical name to the Alias.
  • Class info is now saved on General Journal transactions entered through the Online Banking workflow.
  • The error “Alias already exists” no longer appears when changing a downloaded alias to another QuickBooks name.
  • The “System.AccessViolation….” error no longer appears after trying multiple times to enter a transaction through Online Banking that the user does not have adequate permissions to enter.
  • Matched transactions can now be confirmed even if the system data format is dd-MM-yyyy.
  • QuickBooks no longer displays an unexpected error and closes when making a name that has an online banking alias inactive.
  • The Open Bills exist for this vendor dialog is now displayed during the Online Banking workflow when a vendor with open bills is selected.
  • Payee account number is not pre-filling the Bill Pmt Memo field even though the Autofill payee account number in check memo Preference is turned ON. This has been fixed so the preferences is recognized and adhered to.
  • There might be a situation where transactions get out of sync if a user is matching an Online Banking Transaction to a transactions that another user is editing or deleting. Now the transaction will be locked when it is being matched in online banking and when the update and matching is complete the transaction will be released for others to work on it.
  • Sorting by Date and Amount will sort by Date and Amount now instead of sorting only by Date.
QuickBooks Online Services
  • The name of the Warehouse Management ES feature of QuickBooks Enterprise has been changed to Warehouse Management.
Reports
  • The values and tool tips now appear for minor values on the Income and Expense Graph.
SDK
  • When using the SDK to enter transactions for vendors with a name longer than 31 characters, the QuickBooks SDK no longer displays a message that the account field is too long.
  • The Intuit Sync Manager app now seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks via the SDK so that the admin user will not be notified when Sync Manager attaches for the first time and the Sync Manager will always use a pre-defined role (set of permissions) when accessing QuickBooks.
  • When using the SDK to enter a request for JouurnalEntry Mod and it modifies a Line Item and doesn’t modify the Exchange Rate, the Exchange Rate appears as 1, even if it is not 1. The proper Exchange Rate appears.

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News Flash – Recent changes, improvements, and fixes in QuickBooks 2013 and QuickBooks Enterprise 13.0 (R6)

The following changes, improvements, and fixes were made to QuickBooks Pro 2013, QuickBooks Premier 2013, and QuickBooksEnterprise Solutions 13.0. Later releases (ones with higher numbers) include all changes in earlier releases.

Release 6 (R6)

What’s important about Release 6?

  • Resolved QBW32.EXE Fatal Application Exit error (Unrecoverable Error 02700 80318)
  • Improved performance.
  • Added the ability to change the Company File Color Scheme
  • Added Windows 8 support for the QuickBooks Attach Documents scan manager.
  • Added Monthly payroll item limits.

Known Issue

  • After updating to R6, in certain conditions a manual sync might be required for Enterprise users to be able to use subscriptions like QuickBooks email, Accountants Copy File Transfer, or Advanced Inventory.
Accounts Receivable
  • Terms on sales orders will flow to the invoices created from it.
Add Multiple Items
  • The Add/Edit Multiple List Entries window will now refresh if Assembly items are created from the Item list.
Advanced Inventory
  • QuickBooks will now display a “No Site” section on the Inventory Stock Status by Site report, for those transactions without a site selected.
  • Resolved issues that caused barcode scanners to not work if unplugged and then plugged back in while QuickBooks is open.
  • When row shelf bin is turned on, the on-hand quantity of a build assembly will no longer show zero if there are builds that predate inventory transactions.
  • With Advanced Inventory enabled, the QuickBooks verify/rebuild utility will now detect inventory transfers that have all positive quantities in the “from” and “to” quantity fields.
  • Improved multi-user performance for large company files that have the Lot numbers preference enabled.
  • Unit cost has been added to the FIFO Cost Lot History by Item report.
  • QuickBooks will no longer warn when a duplicate lot number is used.
  • With the Multiple Inventory Sites preference enabled, QuickBooks will no longer display a warning when editing a build assembly when the original build quantity is greater than the quantity available.
  • Verify will no longer fail after an inventory transfer is recorded while the Average Cost is negative.
  • Editing the site on a transaction after turning off the Track Bin Location preference, will no longer cause the Verify to fail.
  • Serial Numbers in Stock reports will only show the current quantity of an item.
  • Costs on purchase transactions will no longer display incorrectly when Unit of Measure is enabled.
Banking
  • When the sort by option “Date,Type,Number/Ref” is chosen, deposits will now be listed first for transactions created on the same date.
Batch Enter Transactions
  • Batch Enter Transactions’ menu item is now accessible under the Company menu for non-accountant versions of QuickBooks Enterprise v13.0.
Calendar
  • QuickBooks will no longer close when trying to add a ToDo note having more than 500 characters while in multi-user mode.
  • Fixed an issue that caused duplicate employee names to appear when picking one on the Add To Do window.
Centers
  • The Item Image window has been re-sized to support lower resolutions.
  • Increased the number of rows visible on the Bins tab in the Inventory Center.
  • All customer information (phone, email, etc.) will be added to any new jobs created for it.
File Operations
  • Resolved issues that prevented QBB files created with QuickBooks for Mac from being opened in QuickBooks for Windows 2013.
Fixed Asset Manager
  • QuickBooks will no longer prompt to allow QuickBooks Fixed Asset Manager access to the QuickBooks company file.
Help
  • Updated payroll help topics.
Intuit Sync Manager
  • This release includes the latest version of Intuit Sync Manager.
Lists
  • The Open Form button on the Templates list will now open the template highlighted in the list.
Multi-currency
  • When multi-currency is enabled, total values will be reflected properly on a Purchase Order when it is created from an Estimate.
Other
  • QuickBooks Enterprise v13 trial users running R6 will not get Advanced Inventory,QuickBooks Email, and the Accountants Copy File Transfer features enabled by default.
  • The error “LVL_ERROR–Unable to find the section for this mentu item!!!”, will no longer appear in the Windows event viewer. This error will only appear in the QBWIN.LOG.
  • QuickBooks will now allow the spacebar to be used to select open Purchase Orders when creating bills.
Payroll
  • Pressing the “s” key on the Employee Defaults window will act as a hot key to select a Class.
  • Improved performance of the Send Payroll Data workflow.
  • QuickBooks will not prompt to send Direct Deposit for Vendor payments if Direct Deposit for Vendor is not active for the company file.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the message “You have Direct Deposit checks to send” when there are no checks to send.
  • Monthly payroll item limits are now supported.
  • After a check is voided and sent to Intuit using Direct Deposit, only a Cleared watermark will be displayed.
PDF
  • Improved overall PDF performance by resolving issues that prevented the ability to save as PDF.
Performance
  • QuickBooks Enterprise max data base cache size has been increased to 512 mb for improved performance.
  • Resolved an issue that caused QuickBooks to close unexpectedly when pressing the F2 button.
  • Resolved an issue that caused QuickBooks to close with the error “QBW32.EXE- Fatal Application Exit”.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 19975 55647′ when a company file has My Apps opened on the left navigation pane.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 13968 12568′ when opening the Customer Center.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 14854 49054′when opening any invoice by double-clicking from the Open Invoices report, especially on computers running Windows XP SP3.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 13968 12922′ when opening the Customer Center in multi-user mode, especially on computers running Windows XP SP3.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 51609′ while setting up new users.
  • Resolved an issue that would cause QuickBooks to hang when switching from single user mode to multi-user mode.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 24995′ when users minimize/maximize QuickBooks multiple times when the progress bar is on.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 17371 39236′ when users use ‘Full Screen’ mode, especially on computers running Windows XP SP3 or Windows 2003 server.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display ‘Unrecoverable error 20888 41171′ when users launch any transaction form.
Printing
  • Corrected the alignment when printing an Inventory Assembly Bill of Materials report.
  • The “Fit report to” setting now works correctly when printing memorized reports.
QuickBooks Attached Documents
  • Added Windows 8 support for the QuickBooks Attach Documents scan manager.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the error “There is Not Enough Memory to Complete this Action”, when attempting to deactivate an account set up for online banking.
QuickBooks Online Services
  • The Pay Online option on the Write Checks window will now be enabled in company files with multi-currency enabled and running in multi-user mode, only if the base currency is selected to USD.
Reports
  • Purchase Orders and Sales Orders without a site now display a quantity on the Stock Status by Site report.
  • Sales description will now show on all reports except for Purchase reports.
  • Non site specific summary reports will now show site data when the report basis is set to Accrual.
  • Clicking the “Revert” button in the Modify Report window, will now set the Zero QOH filter back to the default setting.
  • Sales description will now show on all reports except for Purchase reports.
  • Resolved an issue that caused the word “Overflow” to show on a memorized cash basis custom transaction detail report instead of dollar amounts.
  • QuickBooks will no longer close unexpectedly when running the Review 1099 Vendors report.
  • Resolved an issue that caused QuickBooks to close when opening Inventory items from the Inventory Valuation Summary report.
User Interface
  • Improved support for using QuickBooks with multiple monitors.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display an unrecoverable error while customizing the colored icon bar.
  • Save buttons can now be seen on the Write Checks window when viewing Paychecks and Payroll Liability checks in 1024×768 resolution.
  • Labels are now in all CAPS across transactional forms to improve readability.
  • The Company Information window has been updated to show your Intuit Account, Product Information and subscriptions/services for your company and instance of QuickBooks running, along with the Company Information . You will not be able to edit any of the information except for the Company Information.
  • “Company File Color Scheme” option is introduced in the “Desktop View” preference to allow users to change the color of the title bar and the border of QuickBooks windows for a particular company file, which will help users to differentiate between multiple company files. This preference will be replacing the “Company Color Flag” preference introduced in R4 release. We are offering 14 different “Company File Color Scheme” options to apply on various company files. This is a user level preference, which essentially means that various users connected to the same company file can select different colors.
Release 5 (R5)

Accounts Receivable
  • When QuickBooks encounters the error “GetDecryptedCreditCardNumber Failed: The decryption has failed.” during a verify, all the customer ID’s will be listed in the QBWIN.LOG.  Click here for assistance fixing the customer ID’s affected.
  • Fixed an issue that caused QuickBooks to close unexpectedly when opening an invoice in multiuser mode.
Calendar
  • ToDo descriptions will now show correctly in Reminders list.
Centers
  • In QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, customers and memorized transactions can now be deleted in multiuser mode.
File Operations
  • Rebuild utility will now be able to resolve the error “LVL_SEVERE_ERROR–GetMasterKey Failed: The decryption has failed.”
  • Company files upgrade to QuickBooks 2013 faster.
Lists
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the error “Unable to add item to list” when updating your company file to use with a new patch release of QuickBooks.
Performance
  • Company files with large numbers of list items open much faster.
  • The automatic data recovery system that automatically copies the company file in the background for backup purposes will no longer be re-enabled when the updating QuickBooks.
  • Using and opening the Customer Center is now much faster.
User Interface
  • Fixed an issue that would cause QuickBooks to close unexpectedly after dismissing either an error or warning dialog window.
  • Write checks form will now fit the screen when running QuickBooks at 1024 x 768 resolution.
Release 4 (R4)

Accountant Specific
  • Sending General Journal Entries no longer displays an incorrect message about the ‘From’ email address.
  • The Send General Journal Entry screen no longer shows the billable column (checkbox) as editable.
Accounts Receivable
  • Selections in the Class selection drop-down menu at the top of the invoice will now apply properly to each item on the invoice.
Advanced Inventory
  • You can now display all available bins in the Inventory Center.
  • You can now select a location using arrow keys on transaction forms.
  • The Quantity on Hand report no longer reflects different numbers after being refreshed after warning: you cannot filter by sites and locations.
  • When a company file is upgraded to a newer release, all item types will retain a check mark when “All Items” is checked for QuickBooks generated barcodes.
  • You can now mix inventory and non-inventory items on a Purchase Order if site/location is being used.
  • Added ability to print barcodes under File> Print Forms > Labels.
Banking
  • Selecting a future date on a check and clicking the Pay Online check box no longer displays warning message.
  • You can now copy and paste transactions in the register.
Batch Enter Transactions
  • On the Batch Transactions screen. QuickBooks no longer displays a message that credits are available when none are.
  • Batch Enter Transactions no longer prevents selection of a payee based on multiple currency settings.
  • When you leave required fields blank in Batch Enter Transactions, QuickBooks now highlights the required fields so they’re easier to find.
  • We added the ability to Clear Splits from the context menu when batch entering transactions.
Class Tracking
  • The class tracking on each part of the Transfer transaction has been improved.
  • QuickBooks will now display one warning instead of multiple warnings about inactive elements on group items when working with classes.
Client Data Review
  • Client Data Review no longer adds a blank page to a PDF of a write off invoice.
Connected Services
  • The process of signing in to purchase additional services has been improved.
Enhanced Inventory Receiving
  • Reports now convert foreign currency to home currency when you use multiple currencies with Enhanced Inventory Receiving.
File Operations
  • Now, when you open a company file with a duplicate name, you’ll see an error message with a Repair button. Clicking on the Repair button connects you with the File Diagnostic tool.
  • To insure that the backup made is not corrupt, the Automatic Data Recovery feature no longer makes a backup if duplicate name id’s are detected in the company file.
  • QuickBooks Rebuild now has the ability to detect and fix site mismatch issues with purchase orders.
  • Automatic Data Recovery feature is now available in Enterprise.
Help
  • We updated In-Product Help with accurate content on changing QuickBooks colors.
  • QuickBooks now no longer shuts down when the you select “App Center: Find More Business” from Help.
Install
  • We corrected the display of the install billboards for high resolution screens.
  • We improved the install error messages that display when .NET 4.0 is required.
  • We made 1603 install errors easier to troubleshoot. Now, when you click on the Troubleshoot button in the 1603 error, you’ll be connected with our troubleshooting KB.
  • The QuickBooks installer now includes the MSXML 6.0 SP1 64- bit component so it can be installed when needed.
Inventory
  • In the Inventory Center, the Quantity on Hand by Serial Number view now displays negative quantities correctly.
Other
  • Words added to the dictionary will be retained when QuickBooks is upgraded.
Payroll
  • QuickBooks now correctly updates the Vacation accrued on paychecks when hours are changed.
  • QuickBooks now displays the correct Billed or Not Billed icon on the Enter Single Activity window you click the Previous or Next to view past entries.
  • We fixed an issue that prevented paychecks from being printed using dot matrix printers.
  • Employee notes are no longer visible to users with “no access” permission to Payroll.
  • Preview Paycheck (on edit) will no longer incorrectly change the amount of a deduction with a non-annual limit.
  • Paycheck balances for sick and vacation now update properly when you edit a paycheck.
  • Form names now fit properly in the Federal Forms list.
  • We corrected the alignment of contact information that is auto filled on federal tax forms.
  • Company Message information now prints on pay stubs.
  • We corrected the state filing status values when payroll data is exported to Excel.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the Payroll Summary, Paid Time Off Report, and Payroll Transaction Detail report to be missing from the Employee Center.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Direct Deposit customers to receive a  ”Data has lost integrity” message when sending to the payroll service.
  • Customers with a 7000 series service key (Assisted Payroll) are now able to access payroll features.
Preferences
  • When you update, QuickBooks now retains your search preferences. If you had ‘Update automatically’ unchecked, it will now stay that way after you update.
  • We fixed in issue with the ‘Update Automatically’ Search Preference. When you uncheck ‘Update Automatically’ in Edit > Preferences > Search, this option will now be turned off correctly.
QuickBooks File Manager
  • Company file information now appears correctly when you switch between different company files.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • We fixed an issue that caused a send/receive transaction error message to display when attempting to download transactions.
Reconcile
  • The message “QuickBooks has stopped working” no longer shows up when displaying a previous reconciliation report.
Reports
  • Date filters now work as designed on the Account QuickReport for Income, Expense, and Cost of Goods Sold accounts.
  • Purchase Orders and Sales Orders without a site now display a quantity on the Stock Status by Site report.
  • The Delivery Date column on the Inventory Stock Status by Item report now displays the correct information.
Search
  • The QuickBooks Find feature now locates Item Receipts when Enhanced Inventory is enabled.
User Interface
  • The After-the-fact Payroll window is now scaled to fit the minimum resolution of 1024×768.
  • On the Create Auto PO’s screen, Item column will now be checked when Qty to Order is entered.
  • We added the Batch Transactions icon to the ribbon on the Write Checks and Enter Credit Card Charge/Credit forms.
  • We corrected the appearance of several items in the user interface to match the user interface specification.
  • We added a colored icons/light background option for the Top Icon Bar. Choose Edit > Preferences > Desktop View > My Preferences and click on ‘Switch to colored icons/light background’ to view this preference.
  • We added a company file color flag to help you differentiate between different company files. Choose Edit > Preferences > Desktop View > My Preferences > Company Flag Color to view this preference.”
Windows 8
  • QuickBooks 2013 is now compatible with Windows 8.
Release 3 (R3)

Accountant Specific
  • The toggle feature between Bookkeeper and Accountant has been fixed.
  • The Accountant Center now has a link to Batch Enter Transactions.
Accounts Payable
  • The vendor phone number no longer displays the area code last in some screens.
  • Supplier is no longer displayed when it should be the vendor in the the Add/Edit Multiple Vendors screen.
  • Vendor names now show when they should in the advanced find results page.
Advanced Inventory
  • QuickBooks will now filter the Inventory Item QuickReport correctly when produced from the Items by Bin Location report.
  • Bin locations will no longer be displayed in the Current Availablity window.
  • When “Track locations within Inventory Sites” is enabled, the columns Default Sales Bin and Default Purchase Bin will automatically appear in the Add/Edit Multiple List Entries window.
  • The barcode column now shows automatically in Add/Edit Multiple List Entries for items.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display a Runtime Check Failed error when a line item is blanked while building assemblies.
  • Locations on inventory transfers will no longer refresh unless the site has been changed.
  • Items by Bin location report now correctly reports on items that have sub-items.
  • Site tab has been added to the Inventory Center.
  • QuickBooks will no longer use the wrong default location on an item receipt if site is filled down from first line.
Banking
  • QuickBooks will now correctly display the Payee drop down menu when entering a transaction directly into the register.
  • QuickBooks will no longer show two “Pay Online” check boxes when clicking the Next button on a blank check.
Batch Enter Transactions
  • You can now duplicate Batch Enter transactions with split information. (Available in Accountant Edition)
  • The Batch Enter Transactions feature now saves data for auto-filling fields when the automatically recall preference is on.
Class Tracking
  • You will now be prompted after changing the class for a name or item on a transaction to save the change to the name or item.
  • A Class is no longer filled in when using a balance sheet account.
  • There is now a warning when you associate a list element with an inactive class.
  • When you modify a statement charge or inventory adjusment to have an item without a Class associated, the class from the previously selected item is now removed automatically.
File Operations
  • Hosting security has been updated.
Help
  • Many help topics have been improved.
  • In-product help for QuickBooks colors has been updated.
Install
  • The display of the install billboards has been improved for high resolution screens.
Inventory
  • The barcode feature is now correctly put back to a default state when the default preferences button is activated.
  • Recorded barcodes that are not attached to items will no longer display an error during verify data.
  • The quantity more than estimated warning will now be displayed when using a barcode scanner to complete progress invoicing transactions.
  • The keyboard shortcut for the item barcode has been corrected.
  • The barcode in use message is no longer shown both as an information message and a warning. It is shown only once.
  • The message displayed when deleting all barcodes has been corrected.
  • You can now save batch transactions with inventory items when Advanced Inventory is enabled.
  • Copying barcodes from custom fields has been improved to show the barcode and images.
Multi-Currency
  • QuickBooks will no longer remove the Opening Balance of a customer without warning when the home currency is changed.
Payroll
  • New payroll liability payment checks now use the next check number for the account.
  • QuickBooks will now correctly update the Vacation accrued on paychecks when hours are changed.
  • QuickBooks will now print the Sick and Vacation hours earned during the pay period on the paystub.
  • Added the ability to print the pay stub directly from a paycheck.
  • Added the ability to filter the Select Pay Stubs dialog for a single employee name.
  • Deleted paycheck information can now be sent using the “Send Usage Data” menu item instead of waiting for a future payroll to send.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the warning that I.EMPSIT tag is missing when sending payroll.
PDF
  • QuickBooks will no longer fail with an unexpected error when creating a PDF on Windows Service 2008 64 bit computers.
Performance
  • Improved performance when opening centers and detail reports.
QuickBooks Merchant Services
  • A QuickBooks Payments account is now included with this R3 release of QuickBooks. When you create a new company file for your business (and there is not an existing Payments account with Intuit), you’ll have the ability to accept payments from your customers in a variety of ways:
    • Credit and debit cards
    • Checks
    • Online invoice payments
    • Mobile payments

To turn on your Payments feature, just open the Receive Payments form and simply click the Turn On Payments button located within the yellow bar. You’ll then be asked to enter a few items of information. That’s it! You are now ready to receive payments and have funds deposited directly into your bank account.

QuickBooks Online Backup
  • QuickBooks will no longer display an Internet Explorer script error while navigating in the Online Backup embedded browser.
QuickBooks Online Banking
  • Editing an Online Banking renaming rule will no longer result in the rule being deleted.
  • Added the ability to delete obsolete online banking alerts by pressing “Shift+Ctrl+D”.
QuickBooks Online Billing
  • Controls for managing your QuickBooks Billing Solution settings have been restored to the Create Invoice form. The “Allow Online Payment” checkbox now appears at the lower left. Use it to control whether a given invoice can be paid by credit card or bank payment, as in past versions. The “Mail Later Via QuickBooks” checkbox now appears on the Send/Ship ribbon. Use it to mark invoices to be printed and mailed by the QuickBooks mailing service, as in past versions.
Reports
  • Detail reports now display the correct target memo for each transaction.
Sales Forms
  • Added Gray background for Bills/Checks resolving contrast issue and giving better readability on those forms.
  • Restore issue fixed for the form while returning back from Full screen mode.
  • Some pixel perfect issues for right pane and Tool tip Issues resolved on the forms.
  • The view for the total amount on the forms now supports up to 15 digits.
Search
  • Improved functionality of the Account Search option in the account register.
Startup
  • The right logo is now displayed when launching the trial version.
User Interface
  • The main menus and drop down menus have been improved.
  • Many controls have been updated to match the new theme.
  • The visual appearance of the Company Snapshot has been improved.
  • The borders of edit boxes and drop downs have been sharpened.
  • Many minor display issues have been corrected with the new look and feel of QuickBooks.
  • The ‘F’ shortcut key in the reports menu now selects the Company Financial sub-menu as it did in prior versions of QuickBooks.
  • Added the label “Sales Tax” to the sales tax field on sales forms.
  • Hiding the search box on the top icon bar will no longer hide the whole icon bar.
  • QuickBooks will no longer display the Pay Online box twice on the Write Checks screen after clicking previous or next.

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Ruth Perryman - QuickBooks Specialist Written by +Ruth Perryman, CMA, CFE, CFM, MBA

Ruth is the president of The QB Specialists, an Intuit Premier Reseller that offers huge savings and expert advice on QuickBooks POS and QuickBooks Enterprise. She is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a member of Intuit’s Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks POS and QuickBooks Enterprise and has provided expert QuickBooks help to thousands of businesses all over the world since 1996.

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