If you ever watched that 1997 movie, 'Starship Troopers', you know that one of the most notorious quotes is, "The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug...", well perhaps when it comes to software bugs "the only good bug is one that has been resolved!" Sooner or later, we hope that all the bugs in our software get resolved and that's why releases that profess to include 'bug fixes' are eagerly anticipated.
Maintenance Release
Intuit has just made Maintenance Release 11 (R11) for the QuickBooks Desktop 2020 Product-line available for manual download and that means it is likely to start going out under auto-updates over this weekend if not before. So, if you have automatic updates turned on, QuickBooks will be prompting you to install the download in the near future. Therefore, if you don't want to install it, turn-off auto-updates now.
On the other hand, if you can't wait to install it until auto updates are pushed out to your system you can manually download the update from the Official Intuit QuickBooks Downloads and Updates Webpage (product/version specific).
Release 11 (R1) - February 2020
The changes, improvements and fixes elaborated below were included in this release for QuickBooks Pro 2020, QuickBooks Premier 2020, QuickBooks Accountant 2020 and QuickBooks Enterprise v20.0. As always, each new update also includes all the changes, enhancements and fixes from any earlier updates.
Bug Fixes
As we told you at the start many of these updates are related to Bug Fixes, since I haven't had time to check these individually one-by-one, I am reporting them to you as 'Reportedly fixed...':
- Reportedly fixed an issue where your 1099-NEC Memorized report didn't warn you when using unsupported dates. 1099-NEC Memorized report will prompt you to change your date range from 1/1/2020 to 12/31/2020.
- Reportedly fixed an issue causing the Process Payment Receipt window to show incorrectly for low-resolution displays
- Reportedly fixed an issue causing a Sales Receipt out of balance error when recalculating tax after making sales tax item non taxable.
Intuit Account User Management
Another areas has to do with additional changes to the Intuit Account User Management feature which we wrote about earlier this week.
Intuit account user management dashboard
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- For Accountant versions, when creating a new company file with QuickBooks 2020, the Admin will be prompted to login to their Intuit Account.
- When opening an existing Company File, the Admin will be prompted to sign in to their Intuit account. This change is already in place for non-accountant versions.
- The Intuit Account Primary Admin can change the Primary Admin from QuickBooks. To do this, choose Company, then select Users, and then choose Intuit Account User Management.
Footnotes & Disclosures:
Starship Troopers (film) - 1997 TriStart Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Sony Pictures film Directed by Edward Neumeier, Shinji Aramaki, Paul Verhoeven, and Phil Tippett, based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel of the same name. Additional production interest by Stage 6 Films, Bold Films and Sola Digital Arts.