Intuit began pushing out the R9_45 update to QuickBooks 2022 Desktop Products, including Enterprise 22.0 on May 11, 2023.
You may have seen this update if you have automatic updates turned on, otherwise you can check for manual updates from the Help menu.
You can manually download the update from this Official Intuit QuickBooks Downloads and Updates Webpage (product/version specific).
Intuit pushes out release updates to resolve issues, fix problems and to enhance the experience for QuickBooks Desktop users.
If you don’t want this update automatically downloaded, now is the time to turn-off Auto Updates.
The most recent update occurring May 11, 2023 (Release 9_45), primarily is focused on functionality in the areas of Payroll, Enterprise Shopify and QB-Email.
Employee Center Functionality:
- Revamped the employee center experience, making it easier to enter required information for your employees.
- Updated the Employee info page and discovery items to help identify incomplete employee profiles and understand benefits of complete employee profiles.
401(k) via Guideline 401(k) Functionality:
- Allows users to provide 401(k) retirement benefits to employees through Guideline 401(k) from within QuickBooks Desktop. All Enhanced and Assisted Payroll customers can access Guideline 401(k).
- Sign-in to QuickBooks Desktop as the Admin, then sign-in to Intuit Account to be accessed and sign-up for Guideline 401(k) retirement plan.
QB-Email Functionality:
- QB-Email is a subscription feature that allows customers to send emails via TxE, a technology which has been deprecated.
- The entire Intuit ecosystem is on-boarding to OINP and so to maintain security and follow the ecosystem wide goal, QB-Email has also been on-boarded to OINP as part of this initiative.
- OINP technology provides a more effective, secure and better approach to send emails than the prior TxE technology.
Enterprise Solutions Shopify Functionality:
- Provides a new option preference type in the consent screen — “umpnotneeded.”
- This option greys out the unattended access choice in the consent screen that gives developers an option to integrate the app and perform data sync only when QuickBooks is up and running.
Is Now the Time to Update?
If you are interested in providing the 401(k) retirement benefits through Guideline 401(k), you will want to download this newest update.
If you use QB-Email, you should probably update to the new technology, which provides a more effective, secure and better approach to sending emails.
If you are an Enterprise Solutions user with Shopify integration, you need to consider this update in order to provide better control and security over the integration.
If you aren’t really interested in these specific features, you may not need this update right away. Of course, if QuickBooks downloads the update, you are going to have to make your decision to update pretty quickly since you will only have three log-in opportunities before QuickBooks makes you accept and install the update.
If you are not in a rush to get to any of these things, and you decide to hold off to see what others are saying, you’ll want to make sure Auto-updates have been turned-off inside QuickBooks until you are ready to proceed with this update.
If you go ahead and install the update as I did, let us know what you think by posting your experience(s) in the comments section (below) to this article.
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