Next Wednesday's QBTalks: Intuit Accountant Suite, plus IA's Extra

Next Wednesday, I will be hosting our April 22, 2026, 2:00 PM (Eastern) QBTalks to discuss Intuit Accountant Suite, the soon to be replacement for QuickBooks Online Accountant. Kaitlyn Wilchynski and members of her IAS team will join me as we cover, ‘what’s new in IAS.’

Intuit Accountant Suite (IAS) has been designed as the replacement for QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA). It is an AI-powered platform designed to help accountants manage their clients’ accounting and tax requirements, as well as their own firms (regardless of size) within a single solution. It offers features like team member level assignment of roles, activities and clients.

While Intuit has already rolled-out the 'Beta' version of IAS, this Summer they will begin transitioning all instances of QuickBooks Online-Accountant to the new IAS platform that gives you the business tools and AI-powered workflows you need to boost efficiency, streamline operations, and make more confident decisions, all in one application.  

Intuit Accountant Suite is being offered in two different plans. The first, called 'Core', is free to accountants, bookkeepers and ProAdvisors. It offers a variety of Intuit Intelligence (AI) based features as well as customizable Home and alerts, chart-of-account templates, role-based access and controls, and more. The second plan called 'Accelerate' is paid subscription version offering improved efficiency and streamlined operations at scale, it costs $149/month (as of July 1, 2026). 

Either the 'Core' or the 'Accelerate' plan can be supplemented with 'Books Close' that lets firms standardize and streamlines the close process of their clients' financials. Starting July 1, 2026, firms with fewer than 50 clients onboarded to Books Close will pay $8/month per client; firms with more than 50 clients onboard to Books Close will pay $6/month per client. 

Intuit plans to begin transitioning QuickBooks Online Accountant users to Intuit Accountant Suite, if they have not already voluntarily implemented IAS under the Beta offering, starting in July (2026). By the end of 2026, Intuit Accountant Suite will have replaced QuickBooks Online Accountant.

When your transition comes, your only question will be, are you going to stick with the 'free' Core-version of Intuit Accountant Suite and miss out on a whole lot of other IA-based technological capabilities, or are you going to opt for the 'paid' Accelerate-version. And in either case, are you going to onboard some of your clients to the Books Close.

So, while the transition to Intuit Accountant Suite won't necessarily be up to you, unless you do enroll in 'Beta' between now and July 1, 2026, the IAS version and add-on functionalities s are up to you.

Insightful Accountant's webinar on June 22, 2206 will help you do that by thoroughly explaining the various service and pricing options. 

During our QBTalks, members of the Intuit Accountant Suite team will join us. Kaitlyn Wilchynski, a Senior Product Manager who holds an MBA has brought her expertise to both the QuickBooks Online-Accountant and Intuit Accountant Suite product teams. She will discuss IAS and how it can enhance your practice and talk about some of the more recent updates along with features we can expect to see over the next few months.

Like all new things, it takes time to get use to them... that's why the 'Beta' option for checking out Intuit Accountant Suite affords you the opportunity to prepare yourself for the changes that are headed your way. And if you have questions, next week's QBTalks will will give you the opportunity to ask members of the IAS team your questions about new features and functions, pricing and transitioning from QBOA to IAS.

To qualify for this free 1-hour of CPE, participants must attend a minimum of fifty (50) minutes of the webinar "Main event" and must answer a minimum of three (3) CPE polling questions based on the stated learning objectives set for the webinar.

• Identify ways that IES simplifies client management, boosts efficiency and enhances decision-making.
• Select, from a list, key features or functionalities of IES.
• Select, from a list provided, statements that are true concerning Intuit Accountant Suite.

About April 22nd's QBTalks-Extra

QBTalks-Extra is a totally new offering from Insightful Accountant that turns your 1-hour of CPE into 1.5 hours of CPE credit at the same sit-down session. You do not need to sign up for QBTalks-Extra, if you are participating in the QBTalks or QBTalks-Apps show with an “Extra” attached to it, just stick around for this informative sponsor driven content. Participants will be required to answer one or more CPE Polling Questions during the“Extra” session to earn the additional 1/2-hour of CPE credit. 

April's QBTalks-Extra brings you ‘What’s New with Qvinci’ based on their recent launch of Qvinci™ Intelligence that uses an Inquire, Interact and Interrogate framework to analyze performance, drill into results, and communicate insights across a businesses’ entire ecosystem in near real-time. Successful 'Client Advisory' is about monetizing what you know about your clients' data. Intuit Accountant Suite provides the foundation of that data, and Qvinci™ Intelligence provides the monetization layer, turning data into billable advisory.  

In addition, Qvinci offers you reporting from one, two, ten, a hundred, or even thousands of QuickBooks files in consolidated formats you easily configure. Hundreds of reporting templates are available to help you not only cut-n-dice your QuickBooks data, but analyze it with accuracy down to the penny.  And simply click on any report number and you are immediately taken to the source within QuickBooks.  

How To Attend April 22nd's  QBTalks Webinar:

If you are already registered for QBTalks, you will get your Zoom notifications 1 week out, 1 day out, and 1 hour prior to the start of the webinar. If you are not already registered, you can:

Register Here for QBTalks (and QBTalks-Apps)

So be sure to join Murph as he hosts members of the Intuit Accountant Suite team for our April 22, 2026, 2 PM Eastern QBTalks show covering "What’s New with Intuit Accountant Suite." And stay tuned for QBTalks-Extra following the presentation on IAS, to earn an extra 1/2-hour of CPE.