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Intuit Federated Applications: Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons

The Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons: Intuit Federated Applications are already here AND coming soon. QuickBooks should soon have many more users. Many more QuickBooks users should soon use these Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons far more intensely. This is because a brand new Intuit Partner Platform Lets SaaS Developers Reach Millions of Small Businesses.

These Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons, Intuit Federated Applications, are Intuit-hosted and marketed applications. Intuit Federated Applications will let all web applications and databases, including the new Paycycle / QuickBooks Best Small Business Payroll, fully link to and from 25 million QuickBooks users, with any programming language. However, this is only the beginning, even though few yet realize it.

What does all this mean to you, individually and as a business owner, employee and consumer? I hesitate to say that the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons: Intuit Federated Applications mean paradise is almost here, but you may soon feel that way. Some changes will let you largely automate orders, charges, payments, scheduling, deliveries, bookkeeping, filing, calendar entries, communication, backup, maintenence, repairs, translation, education, planning (including To Do list updates), time keeping, training, research, delegation, retaining assistants and entertainment. Instead, you will gradually do all this and more by approving electronic messages from friends and associates. These changes will let you stop entering the same information repeatedly, while avoiding errors in your records and the records of others. They also will, if you wish, retain message transcripts to minimize disputes.

QuickBooks took a very big step in this direction with the open-source Intuit Federated Applications vision of the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons. I have been pushing my QuickBooks friends about this since 1998. That is when I took over a QuickBooks pre-release test forum to ask, "What new features do you want in QuickBooks?" At the time some considered Intuit openly hostile to their efforts with QuickBooks add-ons. This and follow up questions quickly got most forum traffic. However, at first I was unhappy with the answers. Few agreed with my personal new feature list. I also saw so many different needs that it was unlikely that Intuit could ever satisfy us all. After a while, however, I saw that an open data base version of QuickBooks would let QuickBooks add-ons satisfy almost all of us. There was unanimous agreement when I presented this in a follow up question about the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons. In fact, it was about then that I coined the term QuickBooks Add-ons.

Only after I began to really campaign for these Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons did I learn that others already had a far more powerful vision. Around 1990 a U.N. Committee said we could save trillions of dollars a year if we all used common business forms and exchanged business information electronically. Big businesses already exchange data this way, so we can now far exceed these savings, with the Intuit Federated Applications vision of the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons. We can do even more by having Intuit Federated Applications also connect to 30+ million Quicken, TurboTax and other current and future Intuit program users. 55+ million Intuit program users will then be able to connect to each other and to all big businesses, with all current and future web applications.

Intuit already has multi-currency features in QuickBooks and it is creating programs for international use. Metcalfe's Law says that the value of a network expands geometrically as you add users. Geometric expansion means the value to these inter-connected users is not 1+2+3+4, but 1+2+4+8, carried out 55 million times. These time, cost, accuracy and ENERGY savings will make almost everyone in the world eager to join in. It will give us the absolute best GREEN economic stimulus, with little cost and no government subsidies.

That is why I know the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons: Intuit Federated Applications are already here AND coming soon. It also is why you should Subscribe to this blog for the best QuickBooks insider / outsider tips and news. Get your QuickBooks answers at free monthly meetings of the largest QuickBooks Meetup or see our Meetup QuickBooks Video and other QuickBooks Video.

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Best Small Business Payroll, QuickBooks / Intuit Buying Paycycle

The Best Small Business Payroll is coming soon. Actually, the QuickBooks Best Small Business Payrolland the Paycycle Best Small Business Payroll are already here, but the Best Small Business Payroll will soon be much better.

Intuit owns Quicken, TurboTax and QuickBooks, as well as the online QuickBooks Best Small Business Payroll. Now QuickBooks / Intuit is buying Paycycle, the Best Small Business Payroll market leader. Few know why combining these two Best Small Business Payroll online services will soon give many times more users the Best Small Business Payroll by far.

My clients and I use QuickBooks Small Business Payroll (desktop and online) and Paycycle Small Business Payroll online. My many QuickBooks pre-release tests recently involved very good QuickBooks Small Business Payroll online changes. One key change lets you quickly and easily change QuickBooks Small Business Payroll amounts after you create checks (or direct deposits). You or your accountant often may want this, as the Best Small Business Payroll amounts may differ from calculated amounts for many reasons. For example, you may need net check amounts to calculate support checks, garnishments, loans and tax-planning withholding. However, the Paycycle Small Business Payroll makes you delete checks and start over for changes. QuickBooks Small Business Payroll people will soon correct this for the QuickBooks - Paycycle Small Business Payroll. They also should improve the Accountant Wholesale program of the Paycycle Small Business Payroll, which the QuickBooks Small Business Payroll did not have.

This relates to a big advantage Intuit / QuickBooks usually has: a near obsession with user input. Intuit invented software usability tests for Quicken. They have software designers interact with users, as we test pre-release programs. By day, Intuit founder Scott Cook did this with many novices and experts. By night his co-founder rewrote Quicken. This let novices install Quicken and write a check in 10 minutes, when experts needed an hour with competing programs. Intuit then let users guide it to small and medium business accounting programs, with endless changes and add-ons. This has long given Intuit programs 60% to 98% market share.

If you doubt the Intuit near obsession with user input you did not read Inside Intuit (Amazon link right). You also do not have my 20+ years of near constant Intuit product use (with clients everywhere) or 12 years of pre-release tests, Customer Advisory Councils and MANY email exchanges with top Intuit execs. You surely did not have Intuit CEO Brad Smith call you for 35 minutes during the Florida - Alabama football championship (I missed the end, despite a DVR). Brad also again practically apologized recently, because a trip made him delay an email response beyond his often-amazing five minutes.

Intuit's concern with user feedback has and will give us a new Best Small Business Payroll. I have long used its user input concern to get Intuit changes. In 2000 QuickBooks required tax tables for each company using QuickBooks, not each QuickBooks copy. I fought this as moderator of the most popular QuickBooks newsgroup. This cost QuickBooks about $30 million and made me a pariah to some QuickBooks friends, until their CEO wrote, Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong.

Unfortunately, QuickBooks did not quickly fix many Small Business Payroll problems, so I began using Paycycle. Clients and non-clients got my Paycycle Small Business Payroll Accountant Wholesale rate. Two years ago I sent Paycycle Small Business Payroll a long list of problems. The above ability to change paychecks, after creating them, was first on my list. Paycycle Small Business Payroll did not change, so I gave my list to my friends at QuickBooks. I am one of very many who give feedback, and not privy to most decisions. However, the QuickBooks online Small Business Payroll now has my most wanted new feature and will soon have more that I cannot talk about, due to non-disclosure agreements. Based on a Census Bureau table, these should increase combined Paycycle / QuickBooks Best Small Business Payroll use by 500%+.

There should be many more users due to the Ultimate QuickBooks Add-ons: Intuit Federated Applications. These new Intuit-hosted and marketed Applications will let all web applications, including the new Paycycle / QuickBooks Best Small Business Payroll fully link to and from the 25 million QuickBooks users in any open-source programming language. That is why I know the Best Small Business Payrollis already here AND coming soon. You too can have QuickBooks influence, lots of fun, learn QuickBooks better and get free prizes, while helping create the best QuickBooks and the Best Small Business Payroll. Simply sign up for pre-release tests. Comment below and add your feedback at the many in-QuickBooks program and web links, while using the QuickBooks 2009 user-to-user help I long pushed. Subscribe to this blog for the best QuickBooks insider / outsider tips and news. Get your QuickBooks answers at free monthly meetings of the largest QuickBooks Meetup or see our Meetup QuickBooks Video and other QuickBooks Video.

Finally, Contact us for QuickBooks Accounting Software, including help with QuickBooks, QuickBooks add-ons and using QuickBooks to block taxes (BlockTax).