Intuit has integrated several web-based features into QuickBooks, including remote access capabilities, remote payroll assistance and outsourcing, electronic payment functions, online banking and reconciliation, mapping features through integration with Google Maps, marketing options through Google, and improved e-mail functionality through Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. For the 2008 version, the company has also added import from Excel spreadsheets, additional employee time tracking options, pre-authorization of electronic funds and new Help functions. In June 2007, Intuit announced that QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions would run on Linux servers, whereas previously it required a Windows server to run.^[7]

QuickBooks Online[edit]

Intuit also offers a hosted solution called QuickBooks Online (QBO). The user pays a monthly subscription fee rather than an upfront fee and accesses the software exclusively through a secure logon via a web browser. Intuit hosts all of the user’s data, provides patches, and regularly upgrades the software automatically.

Until recently, the only browser supported by QuickBooks Online was Internet Explorer. But now Mozilla Firefox is supported, and Safari, Firefox and Google Chrome are now supported on the Mac platform. One may also access QuickBooks Online via an iPhone, a BlackBerry, and an Android web app.^[8][9]

QuickBooks Online does not offer all of the features of the desktop versions of QuickBooks, and has many features that work differently than they do in desktop versions.^[10]

In 2011, Intuit introduced a UK-specific version of QBO to addresses the specific VAT and European tax system.

Since 2009, Reckon Ltd has offered an online version for Australian customers, known as QuickBooks Hosted by Reckon Online. ^[11] Unlike other online products, the Australian offering is a full-featured version of the QuickBooks software.