January-2026's QBTalks: What's New in QuickBooks (& Intuit Ecosystem)

This month's QBTalks show is all about 'What's New in QuickBooks' (and the Intuit Ecosystem). This free one-hour CPE eligible webinar is being held January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM Eastern-time. 

Insightful Accountant now offers two episodes of QBTalks every month. The first episode is our new QBTalks-Apps which is held the first Wednesday of every month. The 2nd episode is our long-running QBTalks show which is held the third Wednesday of each month.

Every quarter,  QBTalks examines the most important new features and functionality introduced in the QuickBooks product line, as well as notable changes to the Intuit ecosystem (collectively referred to as ‘announcements’). For January, we are looking at announcements from October, November, and December, along with any early roll-outs thus far in January.

Webinar Content Summary:

The following is but a glimpse of the topics Murph will cover during our January 21, 2026 show:

• Announcements regarding QuickBooks Online
  • Mandatory Interface Change was implemented on October 1, 2025. All users were automatically switched to the new interface, which features "My Menu" at the top of the navigation bar for quicker access to frequently used tools.
  • AI-Powered Bank Feeds with a redesigned bank feed experience were implemented in October, featuring inline edits (no pop-ups) and AI-driven categorization with plain-language explanations for match suggestions.
  • Improved banking data usability with functionality such as column freezing, zebra-striping, green color indicators, and text wrapping
• Announcements regarding QuickBooks Online-Accountant (and Intuit Accountant Suite)
  • Intuit Accountant Suite: Intuit signaled the end of the QuickBooks Online-Accountant platform with the launch of IAS, a unified hub for accounting firms to manage all client files with a single sign-in, granular permissions, featuring role-specific dashboards and optional features like Client Insights and Books Close. While still in Beta, the finalized product is expected to take over QBO-Accountant by January 2027.
    
• Announcements regarding QuickBooks Desktop Products

  • Invoice Template - Vendor Display: Makes available an internal-view only enhancement to the standard Invoice template that incorporates vendor information for associated items.

  • Marking Estimates Inactive: This long-requested enhancement marks Estimates used to create Sales Orders as 'Inactive' as part of the process of creating the Sales Order. 

• Announcements regarding Intuit Enterprise Suite

  • New Consolidated View: This option maximizes visibility of subordinate entities and their data.
  • Enhanced Multi-entity financial reporting: Consolidated balance sheets, cash flow and Profit & Loss reports, aging summaries and detail for Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Configure consolidated reports by shared, cross-entity lists for the Chart of Accounts or configured dimensions. 
  • Additional Intercompany transaction allocation types: Allocate intercompany transactions with automated allocations from the Bank Feed, Checks, Vendor Bills, Expense-forms, or Intercompany Journal Entries. 
• Announcements regarding the Intuit 'one platform' Ecosystem
  • New "Agentic AI" Customer Agent: Automates lead generation from Gmail and drafts follow-up emails.
  • New "Agentic AI" Accounting Agent: Extracts transactions from PDF statements and requests pictures of credit card receipts in real-time to streamline month-end closes.
  • Batch W-9 & 1099 Automation: New tools for bulk W-9 uploads and automated 1099 processing were introduced in late 2025 to prepare for the 2026 tax season. 
• Announcements regarding Intuit/QuickBooks add-on services (payroll, payments, bill pay, etc.)
  • New "Agentic AI" Payroll Agent: Employees can submit hours via text or the Workforce app; the agent then flags anomalies for owner approval.
  •  Pay Item Effective Dates: Allow Payroll Admins to schedule changes to employee compensation, including base pay and additional pay types, to take effect in a future pay period. 
  • AI-powered Payroll Anomaly Detection: Helps identify errors in hours-worked data for regular, hourly pay before running payroll.
  • Recurring Payments and Auto-pay: Schedule recurring or auto payments for your clients that have customers with recurring charges to help ensure continuous cash flow.
  • QuickBooks Bill Pay Basic: Now included with every QuickBooks plan.
  • Faster QuickBooks Bill Payment processing: When using ACH payments they will now arrive a day earlier. 
• Announcements regarding pricing and availability
  • Desktop products
    • Pro Plus, Premier Plus, Mac Plus will see a significant hike in their renewal price as of February 1, 2026.
    • QuickBooks Enterprise will see a significant renewal and new subscription price as of February 1, 2026.
    • QuickBooks Desktop Accountant and QuickBooks Enterprise Accountant (including ProAdvisor Bundles) will also see a significant renewal price, or new subscription price, as of February 1, 2026. 
    • Desktop Payroll Options will also see a significant hike in their renewal price as of February 1, 2026.
  • QuickBooks Online products
    • While Intuit made no announcements during the October through December, 2025 period regarding QuickBooks Online products, it is important to remember in May, 2025 they announced rate hikes impacting QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Payroll as of July 1, 2025. 

You can learn about additional topics I will cover during this webinar by reading 'next week's' promotional feature about our free one-hour CPE eligible QBTalks show: What's New in QuickBooks' (and the Intuit Ecosystem) being held January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM Eastern-time. 

Learning Objectives:

To ensure this webinar qualifies for one (1) CPE credit, it must have meaningful learning objectives. To qualify for CPE, participants must attend a minimum of fifty (50) minutes of the webinar and must answer a minimum of three (3) of the six (6) CPE polling questions based on the stated learning objectives set forth below.

Upon completion of this one-hour webinar, participants should be able to:

• Identify, from a list, one or more feature updates to QBO and/or QBO-Accountant during the last quarter.
• Identify, from a list, one or more feature updates to QuickBooks Desktop products during the last quarter.
• Identify, from a list, one or more feature updates to Intuit Enterprise Suite during the past quarter.
• Identify, from a list, one or more feature updates impacting the Intuit 'one platform' Ecosystem. 
• Identify, from a list, one or more ‘true statements’ regarding Intuit Accountant Suite.
• Identify, from a list, one or more pricing announcements impacting you or your practice.

How You Can Attend This Webinar:

If you are already registered for QBTalks, you are automatically registered for the new QBTalks-Apps series. If you are not already registered, you can:

Register Here for QBTalks (and QBTalks-Apps) 

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at QBTalks-Apps: "A Realm By Any Other Name."  _(Murph)