Maintenance Release
As with QuickBooks 2020 and QuickBooks 2021 within the last 7 days, Intuit has now rolled-out a December release to meet certain tax-form requirements prior to year-end. So they have begun to roll-out the Maintenance Release 14 (R14) Update to the 2019 QuickBooks Desktop product line. The changes, improvements and fixes elaborated below were included in this release for QuickBooks Pro 2019, QuickBooks Premier 2019, QuickBooks Accountant 2019 and QuickBooks Enterprise v19.0.
Be aware that each new update also includes all the changes from earlier updates. If you have automatic updates turned on, QuickBooks will download the updates for you and prompt you to install it. You can manually download the update from the Official Intuit QuickBooks Downloads and Updates Webpage (product/version specific). If you don't want this update automatically downloaded, NOW is the time to turn-off Auto Updates.
Maintenance Release 14 - December, 2020
This update includes updates to User Management and 1099 Tax Forms.
User Management
User feedback subsequent to Intuit's implementation of the mandatory login of Admin Users to Intuit Accounts resulted in the change allowing for a Secondary Admin for the Intuit Account.
- Admin users are now able to edit the user ID while signing into the Intuit account within QuickBooks Desktop.
- Users can send Request for Access (RFA) to the master admin to become part of the company file Intuit account when signing into the company file or by signing into My Company.
Tax 1099 NEC and MISC
These changes are designed to comply with changes necessary for the end-of-year tax form reporting requirements.
- QuickBooks Desktop now supports 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC print and eFiling.
- Third-party applications can use the latest Software Developer Kit (SDK) to support e-filing of 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC forms for QuickBooks Desktop customers.
Should You Update?
Personally, I don't see anything here that won't wait for at least a week to give some of us the opportunity to hear what some others might experience if they go ahead and install.
If you aren't just in a rush to get to any of the few things that are outlined for this release then you may want to hold off for a week to 10 days to see if others chime in with notes that they experience issues and that means you may want to make certain that 'Auto-updates' have been turned-off inside QuickBooks until you are ready to proceed with this update.
If you do proceed with updating to this new maintenance release, let us know if you experience issue by posting comments to this article.