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  • Why every company should be doing a Follow Me Home

    Imagine this: The year is 1983. You’re at the mall and just purchased this remarkable new household appliance known as the personal computer. It promises to do things that had previously been relegated to paper, pencil, or clumsy pocket calculators. One of the things these new personal computers excel at is calculations, and you hope […]

  • Review solicitation through Post Interaction Emails

    The role of reviews The role of customer reviews is a recurring theme that surfaces every time we talk to QuickBooks® users about considerations that are important when making app purchase decisions. Reviews provide customers with unbiased validation about an app from other users like themselves. This is, in fact, quite consistent with industry research […]

  • Why the Accessibility Tree is key to understanding accessible applications

    The Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATiA) defines assistive technology as “any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.” It’s been around since before the 1900s, maturing from “no tech” (for example, Benjamin Franklin’s bifocal glasses and Braille for […]

  • How to avoid conflicts and delays in the AI development process (Part II)

    In Part I of my two-part series on avoiding conflicts and delays in AI development, I introduced the first three steps of Intuit’s AI playbook. Today, I’ll walk through the last three steps. When put together, all six steps will help you integrate AI into your product, thus delivering improved customer experiences and customer benefits, […]

  • Biggest tech advancements of 2020

    Looking back at 2020, it’s highly improbable that your first thought is, “The 2020 tech advances were awesome!” We know it’s more along the lines of, “Is it over yet?” Still, even some years we would like to wish away have some merit, so we asked the Intuit® Developer community what they saw as this […]

  • What's new in QuickBooks Online: December 2020

    Welcome back to another in a series of article about QuickBooks® Online. These articles run on the Developer Blog so that our community can stay aware of new features and improvements in QuickBooks Online. And, with that, it’s a wrap. Another year in the books. Thank you for rising up to the challenge that 2020 […]

  • Update for Intuit Developers on QuickBooks Desktop and the 1099-NEC

    Prior to tax year 2020, QuickBooks customers had to file only Form 1099-MISC for the vendors and contractors they paid. Starting in 2020, the IRS created a new form specifically for non-employee compensation (NEC) payments, Form 1099-NEC. All other payments will continue to use Form 1099-MISC. Learn more about 1099-NEC. To be compliant with IRS […]

  • QuickBooks Reimburse Charge: Now available to third-party apps

    At Intuit®, we are constantly looking for feedback and potential opportunities to enhance our customer experience through partnerships. We love hearing about the ideas our developer partners have to enhance our products. Please continue to submit your ideas and vote so we can best respond to your suggestions. Listening to our developers, we realized there […]

  • How to avoid conflicts and delays in the AI development process (Part I)

    The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by organizations of all sizes is slowly but surely taking place. Forbes, citing an IBM study, said that 34% of U.S., EU, and China businesses have deployed AI, and a Gartner survey of 3,000 CIO respondents from around the world found that 37% are using the technology. If your […]

  • Empowering global teams to deliver accessibility at Intuit

    I believe accessibility in software is an important topic. Why? Because you would be hard pressed to find a person who doesn’t use electronic devices and the software that runs them every day. Accessibility means these software users can obtain, utilize, or understand this software easily, but it’s a fact that accessibility is not always […]