Quickbooks is listening to you

Upon arrival the Quickbooks team were welcoming everyone to their QBConnect 2019 conference and directing them to the registration center. Quickbooks encourages both small business owners and professionals to attend on their first day of the conference. The attendees are a mix of tax practitioners, business owners seeking help with implementing STP, software developers and IT specialists.

QUICKBOOKS | Zac sets the mood for the beginning of the conference full of happy anticipation at #QBConnect. A big smile with enthusiasm made my day! Thank you @ZacYANG3 @QuickBooksAU pic.twitter.com/Y7FHjFE3IL

— MyOfficebooks (@MyOfficeBooks) May 30, 2019

John Dunkerley started the morning sessions sharing the philosophy that “Anything is Possible” as the theme for the day. Quickbooks wants to see all small business owners succeed and are dedicated in developing the tools to ensure that this happens. John Dunkerley then shared some very impressive numbers to validate why Quickbooks is a world leader in accounting software.

We’re here to power the prosperity of small biz everywhere, says @JD_Intuit as he opens the third @QuickBooksAU #QBConnect And, we have more than 4.2M customers who use QuickBooks Online making Intuit the leading cloud accounting platform in the world. pic.twitter.com/GhuV04HQKR

— Lisl Pietersz (@LislPietersz) May 29, 2019

Cassie Divine continued the theme that Quickbooks is working harder for you, to help you become more successful. The stage screen showed “Power of the many for the prosperity of one” where Intuit spends 1.2 Billion in research each year which includes AI & machine learning to make the lives of small business easier.

Cassie Divine also listed that Quickbooks is focused on listening to their customers and some of the innitatives they have made are the following:

Improved the speed of their product by two times

Bank Alerts

Launching automatic payment reminders, so that customers are nudged & the business owner paid faster

Profitability by project

Advisers will have new tools to use, which they will announce in Day 2

Quickbooks will be launching a dedicated contact line for Developers, so they can get their questions answered

While getting in front of new changes, like Single Touch Payroll (STP) with Keypay

NEW RELEASES

Receipt Capture

Snap a photo or email a receipt, invoice or statement and Quickbooks will capture the data and bring it in.

QUICKBOOKS -| New product Receipt capture #qbconnect No more clients loosing receipts when using @QuickBooks pic.twitter.com/KfS8iZntoo

— MyOfficebooks (@MyOfficeBooks) May 29, 2019

Mileage Tracking

Last 2.3 billion kilometers have been tracked with their self employed app.

Mileage tracking will now be added to their entire suite of products.

They will automate key locations as well.

Smart Look

If you have a question about anything and you will be able to talk to a real human within inside Quickbooks itself.

Cassie then had “Bianca” show live how the project will work in the future when it’s released.

Quickbooks Live

60% of small businesses are connected to ProAdvisors in Quickbooks, but what about the other 40%?

Quickbooks live will connect the 40% not connected with an accountant or bookkeeper, with a pool of qualified experts to provide basic setup and basic bookkeeper. This will remove the emotion of feeling overwhelmed and making a connection to the right people. For bookkeepers and accountants, this means opportunity for experts who are ProAdvisers who sign up to the services. This will dramatically change the success of small businesses.

In Conclusion

Quickbooks is working harder, automate the drudgery and work smarter for you, unleash the massive power of the Quickbooks network to help advisers to be more successful.

Quickbooks VP @divinecassie shares how we are innovating for Australian small business owners with #SingleTouchPayroll, SmartLook, receipt capture and mileage tracking across our entire lineup #QBConnect pic.twitter.com/qpaj8CsMC4

— QuickBooks Australia (@QuickBooksAU) May 30, 2019

Cassie ended her talk in saying

“You are the opportunity makers, you create it for yourselves, for each other, for your communities and we hope that Quickbooks Connect is a catalyst to create more of these opportunities. Many people in this world wait for opportunity, other people stick their necks out and create it ……. here’s to sticking out your neck!”

Watch out for more articles to come from the Quickbooks Connect 2019 conference…….
 

Amanda Hoffmann

Amanda Hoffmann is a registered Tax Practitioner / BAS Agent No.18613005, Associate of Finance, Xero, Myob & Quickbooks Proadvisor / Trainer and a Consultant for the Australian Taxation Office.

She says she is more than just a bookkeeper with experience in real estate investing, social media, podcasting, blogging and recently recording monthly youtube episodes

Amanda loves to teach smart, easy online cloud solutions and fix messy bookkeeping. Follow her on social media and say “Hi”