Intuit Accountant Suite May 2026 feature launch: The AI-powered future of firm management

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As we move into the spring and summer and as firms evaluate what technology is best for their workflows, Intuit is introducing new Intuit Accountant Suite features designed to help you manage your firm, clients, and team in one centralized, AI-powered platform.

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Intuit Accountant Suite securely centralizes financial data for both your firm and your clients, creating a foundation that allows you to harness insights, automate complex workflows, and scale your impact.

To ensure every firm can leverage the capabilities of the Intuit Accountant Suite, the Core tier will remain available at no cost. This tier offers the fundamental resources necessary for effective practice management.

Efficiency Redefined: from inefficient context switching to all in one place

Recognizing that constant context switching significantly hampers productivity, new efficiency innovation in Intuit Accountant Suite minimizes disruptions and empowers you to remain focused on your work. New features available now and coming soon include:

  • Prioritize work with the proactive home dashboard: Your new home screen doesn't just show data; it surfaces problems. With custom alerts, you'll be notified immediately if a bank feed disconnects or a third-party app fails, allowing you to fix issues before they impact your month-end close.
  • Strengthen client relationships with Requests: Centralize all communications within a single platform to eliminate third-party solutions and context switching. This feature ensures a seamless experience by recapping AI-assisted client discussions and surfacing expert-level questions directly to your attention.
  • Ensure comprehensive oversight and granular accountability with Consolidated Audit Logs: Get a single firm-level view of audit logs across all client companies. This feature uses cross-realm ID support to enable this consolidated view and includes Client Sub-User Visibility, allowing for granular tracking of all changes made by accountant sub-users. You can view logs for up to 10 clients at a time, with up to 5 recently accessed clients pre-selected.
  • Get instant answers to complex questions: With Intuit Intelligence Chat, you can simply ask to see your total AR or a client's cash flow trends. Our AI-powered interface delivers real-time answers for your firm and provides deep-dive data for your clients.
  • Boost efficiency: Coming soon, you will soon be able to open multiple client files simultaneously in separate browser tabs, eliminating the need to close one screen just to check a figure in another.
  • Accounting & tax together (Beta): Tax prep powered by Intuit ProConnect Tax is now available in Intuit Accountant Suite. You can now manage tax preparation workflows, track statuses, and assign tax-related tasks across your entire portfolio without ever needing to log into individual client files. It's a unified view of your firm's most critical work. If you have Intuit Accountant Suite Accelerate, you'll also now have access to monitor client's tax KPIs and customize dashboards in Client Insights.

Operational organization at scale

Achieving consistent, high-quality service delivery requires strong operational foundations. These tools offer firm leaders the ability to standardize service delivery and implement granular security controls across their entire practice.

  • Books Close Add-On2 (Beta): Boost your firm's productivity through tailored templates and status tracking optimized for your unique operations. A key innovation is the built-in contextual comments, allowing you to address specific transaction questions in your workflow, or zoom out to centralized communications in Requests, ensuring a unified and audit-compliant dialogue. Within Books Close templates, firms can now globally set thresholds, inclusions, and exclusions, enabling universal settings across your client base and removing the need for manual updates.
  • Enhanced security with User Groups: As your team and client base grows, permissions become more complex. You can now create User Groups to bulk-assign role-based access for your team and your clients. Whether it's a dedicated AP/AR team or seasonal tax help, you can grant the exact level of access needed in seconds.
  • Streamline expert collaboration with clarity: Coming soon, see new support available from Intuit Experts in QuickBooks subscriptions, with transparency, flexible configurations, and collaboration to manage engagements.
  • Streamlined Payroll service delivery: Coming soon, streamline payroll for QuickBooks clients at scale: Deliver payroll services for efficiency across QuickBooks Payroll clients with standardized workflows that support consistent, scalable service delivery.

Intuit Accountant Suite May feature launch overview

This table provides a detailed overview of all the new features rolling out to the Intuit Accountant Suite, organized by tier (Core, Accelerate) and specific add-on functionality.

Tier / Category Feature Key Functionality
& Benefits
Availability / Status
Core & Accelerate Multiple Tabs Simultaneously access multiple client files and
Intuit Accountant Suite for improved efficiency.
Coming Soon
Core & Accelerate Tax Prep powered
by ProConnect Tax
Accounting and tax integration with customizable workflows
for assigning, tracking, and completing tasks.
May [Beta]
Core & Accelerate Payroll Service Delivery Standardized workflows to streamline and scale payroll services
across QuickBooks Payroll clients.
Coming Soon
Core & Accelerate Customer Hub Manage leads and clients directly within the Customer Hub
to strengthen client relationships.
Available Now
Core & Accelerate Requests with AI handoff With centralized communication and an AI review handoff,
your clients get direct access to
your professional expertise for support.
May [Beta]
Core & Accelerate Standard KPIs Track broken bank connections, unposted transactions,
total transactions, and last close date across clients
with view only access in Client Insights.
May [Beta]
Core & Accelerate Embedded services hub Visibility into new support from Intuit Experts available in
QuickBooks subscriptions with transparency,
flexible configurations and collaboration for firms coming soon.
Coming Soon
Accelerate Only Client Insights (AI Anomaly)3 Benchmarking and KPI monitoring across QuickBooks,
Intuit ProConnect Tax, Payroll, and Bill Pay data.
Available Now
Accelerate Only User Groups3 Securely bulk assign role-based access and controls
for services like AP, AR, and Payroll.
Available Now
Accelerate Only Portfolio-level Insights3 Ask AI sophisticated questions to compare financial data
across your entire portfolio.
Coming Soon
Books Close
Add-On
Customized Close Workflows2 Custom statuses and multiple assignees to speed up
month-end close delivery.
Available Now
Books Close
Add-On
AI Anomaly Detection2 Automatically spot and resolve issues faster during
the review and close process.
Available Now
Books Close
Add-On
Template Level Settings2 Apply inclusions, exclusions, and thresholds at the
template level for all clients at once.
April [Beta]
Books Close
Add-On
Bulk Task Updates2 Mark multiple tasks as complete at the page or
group level to reduce manual effort.
Coming Soon
Books Close
Add-On
Transaction review collaboration2 Ask clients transaction-specific questions
using contextual comments.
Coming soon ask team members questions in comments.
April [Beta]

The Path to the Future: Pricing & QuickBooks Online Accountant Sunset

We want every firm to experience the power of Intuit Accountant Suite. To support this transition, Intuit Accountant Suite Core remains free, providing the essential tools you need to run your practice.

To make the transition easier, Intuit Accountant Suite Accelerate and the Books Close Add-On will remain in Beta at no additional cost through June 30, 2026.2

Upcoming Pricing (Starting July 1, 2026):

  • Intuit Accountant Suite Accelerate: $149/month.
  • Books Close Add-On: $8/client/month (for the first 50 clients), scaling down to $6/client/month as you grow.2

A Final Note on QuickBooks Online Accountant: As we look toward the future, we have announced that QuickBooks Online Accountant will sunset in December 2026. We are committed to walking this path with you, providing the training you need to migrate your firm to Intuit Accountant Suite this summer.

Ready to make the switch?

If your firm is still using QuickBooks Online Accountant, now is the perfect time to join to explore the modern design and advanced AI of Intuit Accountant Suite. See for yourself why 94% of firms who switch don't go back, and are 1.7x more likely to recommend Intuit Accountant Suite to a colleague or peer than QuickBooks Online Accountant.4 Here are a few ways to get started with Intuit Accountant Suite:

  • Learn more about Intuit Accountant Suite
  • Take the Intuit Accountant Suite training course through ProAdvisor Academy.
  • Primary admins can switch one of your firm's QuickBooks Online Accountant accounts to Intuit Accountant Suite to begin using the features.
  • Try Books Close during the beta with a few onboarded clients to see if it will work for your firm.

Disclaimers:
1 Intuit Intelligence in clients' books is only available by upgrading to Accelerate, a paid plan within the Intuit Accountant Suite. Intuit Intelligence in firm books is available in Core. Intuit Intelligence chat has a cap of 200 questions in Core and 1000 questions in Accelerate during the beta period.

2You will not be charged during the beta program which runs through June 30, 2026. Beginning July 1, 2026, we will start charging for Books Close. You have the opportunity to continue to use Books Close for a fee, or cancel your subscription prior to that date to avoid charges. Pricing will be based on the number of clients onboarded to Books Close. Firms will choose which clients they onboard to Books Close. Charges will be based on the number of clients onboarded at the beginning of their billing month on their billing date.

Firms with 50 clients or fewer onboarded, will pay $8/client/month.
Firms with more than 50 clients onboarded, will pay $6/client/month.
These charges will begin on your firm's bill date on or after July 1, 2026.

3 Requires upgrading to Accelerate, a paid plan within the Intuit Accountant Suite.

4Based on internal data from 13K firms from 10/23/25 through 3/26/26.


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