The following changes, improvements, and fixes were made to QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2018, QuickBooks Desktop Premier 2018 and QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise 18.0. Later releases (ones with higher numbers) include all changes in earlier releases.
The release is available for manual download and will begin rolling out under automatic update within a few days.
All Desktop Version Users:
Bank Feeds - Fixed error 194 by ensuring routing numbers are always comprised of 9 digits
Help - Fixed an issue where some Help articles were not opening.
Install - Fixed an issue that caused Error 80029c4a to be displayed while opening QuickBooks after installing a release update.
Payments - After signing up for Payments, all first-time payment users will be provided a tour to guide them through e-invoice use, receiving payments, and processing online payments.
Reports - Fixed an issue with exporting of Transaction Detail reports when adding Ship To column.
For Enterprise Product Users Only:
Receive Inventory (Mobile functionality) - new functionality that allows users to receive inventory with the mobile app/scanner. Now inventory items received against a purchase orders can be scanned and the company file is updated automatically, avoiding manual entry.
New Dashboard for Receiving - allows users to view and manage all open purchase orders,
Additional Bluetooth Scanner support - adds support for 2 additional Bluetooth scanners that can be used with an Android device running the mobile app.
Sales Order Fulfillment - when a sales order is updated by one user in multi-user mode, other users attempting to update the same sales order will receive a message indicating the sales order is currently being updated by another user. A message will also be displayed when a user tries to update a sales order after an item in the original sales order has been deleted.
Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet - the worksheet will remain open if a transaction is being edited by a different user, the initial user's changes will not be lost.
Site Validity - When a user changes a site on the Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet and in the Items Details window, the correct site will be saved if the details are cancelled out.
Serial Number Enablement - serial numbers must now be enabled for Sales Orders, in addition to the overall serial number preference.
Picker Name Enforced - fixed an issue which had allowed picklists to be created without a valid picker name.
Other issues - resolved an issue where selecting few items on Item List window and proceeding to the Pick List creation tab and again returning back to Item List window was selecting all the items shown in the Item List window.
About the Update
The majority of the patches within this update are related to the newly implemented Sales Order fulfillment procedures designed to use mobile barcode scanner technology within the Enterprise Advanced Inventory feature set. If you are making use of those features you may very well want to go ahead and update to this release in order to expand, enhance and fix those capabilities.
The remainder of the release update consists of fairly minor issues impacting only a few users. In those cases you may want to delay implementation to insure that there are no adversities reported with this release.