This Wednesday, I will be hosting the Intuit Accountant Suite team for our QBTalks at 2:00 PM Eastern (April 22, 2026). Kaitlyn Wilchynski, and members of her IAS team will join me to discuss, ‘what’s new in IAS.’
Intuit Accountant Suite (IAS) will soon replace QuickBooks Online Accountant (QBOA)as Intuit's AI-powered platform to help accountants manage their clients’ accounting and tax requirements, as well as their own firms from a single solution. It offers features like team member level assignment of roles, activities and clients, and direct access to clients' QuickBooks files within IAS without having to switch to the client's QBO.
Intuit rolled-out IAS late last year in 'Beta' so allow accountants and ProAdvisors the opportunity to transition on a timeline that was best for them. This Summer, Intuit will begin transitioning all QuickBooks Online-Accountant users to the new IAS platform that gives you AI-powered workflows to boost efficiency, streamline operations, and make more confident decisions, all in one application. By the end of 2026, Intuit Accountant Suite will have replaced QuickBooks Online Accountant.
Intuit Accountant Suite is available in two different plans. A 'free' version, called 'Core', offers various Intuit Intelligence (AI) based features as well as customizable Home and alerts, chart-of-account templates, role-based access and controls, and more. The 'Accelerate' version is a paid subscription offering even greater efficiency and streamlined operations at scale. Accelerate will cost $149/month starting July 1, 2026, when the 'Beta' offering ends.
Users of IAC 'Core' or the 'Accelerate' can supplement their plans with 'Books Close' that lets firms standardize and streamline 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.
When your transition comes, you will have two questions to answer:
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 enroll in 'Beta' between now and July 1, 2026, the IAS version and add-on functionalities are choices you will need to make at the time of your transition from QBO-Accountant to Intuit Accountant Suite.
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 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.
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 this Wednesday'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 me as I host 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.