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Here we are on the desktop to outline our objective noting that this is the prior year software the 2022 QuickBooks desktop software at the end of the process we would like to download an installation software package which will then be installed to create the QuickBooks desktop 2023 software on our machine that being the end objective remembering that this software is not the data file it's the software it's similar to having say Microsoft's word on the computer then using Microsoft's word to open multiple different word documents once we have QuickBooks 2023 on the computer we can then use it to create multiple different company files that's the objective there are three scenarios we might be in we might not have the software at all and we might just try to be practicing with the software in which case we'll be looking to get the free 30-day trial download that onto our system or we might be purchasing the software for the first time in which case we'd have to go to the sales page for example to get access to the purchasing process and then download the software or we may have purchased the software in a prior year remembering that the desktop version is now on a subscription basis so now that 2023 has passed when we open up the software package it's usually going to be telling us hey you have an update to the software in order to update the software we're gonna have to go on to the Intuit website download the 2023 software and then we'll just update our data file to the 2023 version so let's go over these three scenarios quickly and and see the differences between them first let's imagine you don't have the software at all and you would like to download the free trial version to practice with along with the course so in that instance I believe it's easier than going to the Intuit owner of QuickBooks website to just go to a search page on your favorite browser such as Google type in something like QuickBooks desktop free trial making sure that you're noting the desktop version as opposed to the online version and then searching for the free trial version here we have it noting that we're at the quickbooks.intuit website so that looks to be the correct one and then you could go through the download process notice here that we have the QuickBooks Enterprise trial install file you can't use the Enterprise version which is kind of a level up then the version will be using in the course because all of the things that we do in the course will be at the lower version and you'll have a kind of software that can do that and more so that should be good also note that they currently only have I believe the 2022 version at this point in time hopefully they will update that shortly so that you will have access to the 2023 free trial version to practice along with the course you can follow along with the 2022 version everything will work fine except you may not be able to use the 2023 backup files if you want to jump forward in the course or rework something in the course we do have 2022 backup files in the course which hopefully you can you could use those as well they'll be lower down in the course so that's an option that you can use as well so that's the first option if you download this installation you're gonna get an installation kind of thing that you're gonna basically have to then open up and run on your desktop at which point you'll then end up with the actual software on your computer and you'll be ready to then open up another file within it so that's option number one option number two is that you're buying the software now if you're buying the software then you want to make sure that you're you're buying it for you know you're gonna be using the software for your purposes but note that you can open up multiple company files if you have the software so if you already have the software downloaded or if you're buying the software you could still work through the practice problems in the course because of the beauty of the desktop version being that you can open up multiple company files like open up multiple word documents with one download of the software that's one of the big benefits I think that's one of the things that possibly into it the owner of QuickBooks doesn't like about it right because they want everyone to pay for each new course possibly but any each new company file but in the case let's go to Intuit website that's gonna be at Intuit.com so this would the easiest way to get here would be I believe to go to the owner of QuickBooks website that the intuit.com and then go to QuickBooks this is the way I would always go there so that I'm sure that I'm at an Intuit website I'm not buying it from somebody else if I want to buy it from Intuit you can buy it from an accountant for example talk to your CPA firm and buy it through them possibly but if you're buying it from somewhere online I would go to the source here and check that out first so now I'm in the QuickBooks website within Intuit I usually go all the way to the bottom all the way to the bottom in order to look at all the products and then I'm gonna make sure that I want the QuickBooks desktop we talked about the differences between desktop and online and so on and so forth in a prior presentation go into the desktop version and remember that at this point in time they don't have QuickBooks Pro offered here it is available according to the person that I talked to when I contacted Intuit but they want you to actually contact them in order for them to sell you the pro version which is around 500 I think it's 549 99 rather than the premier which is the level up at the 799 so hopefully I'm thinking they're gonna update their website and add the pro version here so you can buy it on your own but at this point in time you'd have to actually contact the support and talk to a sales person to get to the to that version who's then gonna say maybe you want the online version and again possibly they're doing that because the smaller companies a bookkeeper can basically manage multiple companies with one download file and they would like to be having each small company pay per company you know so I'm thinking that might be one of the reasons why they're kind of trying to gear smaller businesses away from the desktop version but that's that's the other option if you purchase from the website then again you go to the purchasing process you'll have to download the software which will then installation software and then once you install it you will once again get to your your software on your computer so the three ways to get to the software on the computer three scenarios one you don't have it at all you want to then practice with it therefore you're going to be using the the trial version number two you already have the software like I have here 2022 software when I open it you might get a message that says something like this there's a new quick book software update waiting for you and then you can go to to the new install now which can walk you through the installation process which should still get you to the point where you got to download the software and you'll have another piece of software here which will be the 2023 version and all you have to do is then open your data file in the 2023 version like a word document updating from an older version to a newer version the data file will then hopefully update without any problems or number three you're purchasing the the new quick books software which you can still quick purchase the pro version of the software and then you'll be using that for your business as well as possibly other businesses and your book keeping business and you can have another file for our practice problem and work it that way no matter which way you do it if you get the software on the computer then you can you can open up multiple data files with it and you can work the practice problem if you have an older software like 2022 or even older you could still work through the practice problem following along with us but you won't be able to use the data files restoring the data files you have to use your own data files for the first half of the course and the second half of the course when we make a new company file you can't really jump forward and go back as easily although again we do have prior data files for 2022 and prior periods which might be useful accounting I don't know anyone in County