
Intuit sought to bridge the gap with these accounting professionals, eventually providing full audit trail capabilities, double-entry accounting functions and increased functions. Professional accountants, however, were not satisfied with early versions of the system, citing poor security controls, such as no audit trail, as well as non-conformity with traditional accounting standards. It continued to command the vast majority of this market as of 2013. As such, the software soon claimed up to 85 percent of the US small business accounting software market. The software was popular among small business owners who had no formal accounting training. The Windows and Mac versions shared a different codebase that was based on In-House Accountant, which Intuit had acquired. The initial release of QuickBooks was the DOS version that was based on the Quicken codebase. The initial Quicken software did not function as a " double-entry" accounting package. After the success of its Quicken product for individual financial management, the company developed similar services for small business owners. Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Mountain View, California, USA. Ī previous version of this article first appeared on. Pricing on version 11.0 of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions is available at.

To learn more about upgrade pricing for the 2011 Pro and Premier versions, visit and look for the Upgrade link.

Discounts are available for users upgrading from an earlier version of QuickBooks to the Enterprise Solutions product. Instead you must purchase a combination of one, two, or three-user packs to accommodate the number of users you need.Īnyone that requires six or more users must upgrade to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 11.0. QuickBooks Premier 2011 still allows up to five users, but you can't purchase a five-user license as you could in the past. If you need four or five users, you'll need to upgrade to QuickBooks Premier 2011. QuickBooks Pro 2011 only allows up to three simultaneous users, down from a previous limit of five.


The stealth price increase affects anyone that has been operating QuickBooks with up to five simultaneous users. Affected add-on services include payroll, credit card processing, bill pay, online banking, e-mail, certain third party products, and other services. Intuit notes that if you don't need technical support or any add-on services, you're free to continue using QuickBooks 2008 as long as you wish. Anyone using the 2009, 2010, or 2011 versions of these products won't be affected. As of May 31, 2011, Intuit will no longer provide live technical support or add-on services for the 2008 version of QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Simple Start.
