 QuickBooks Desktop 2024, how to update software, get ready and some coffee because we're locking into some non-stop QuickBooks Desktop 2024. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us. But, but that's okay whatever because our merchandise is better than their stupid stuff anyways. Like our crunching numbers is my cardio product line. Now, I'm not saying that subscribing to this channel, crunching numbers with us, will make you thin, fit and healthy or anything. However, it does seem like it worked for her, just saying. So, subscribe, hit the bell thing and buy some merchandise so you can make the world a better place by sharing your accounting instruction exercise routine. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Getting access to QuickBooks Desktop 2024. So people might have a few different situations, a few different scenarios at this point. One scenario being that you already have access to QuickBooks Desktop. However, you have the prior year version 2023. If you have QuickBooks Desktop 2023, you are most likely on a subscription basis because the owners of QuickBooks, into it, had moved to a subscription model for the desktop version by that time. So in which case, you would just need to upgrade from 2023 to 2024. A process not as easy as just making updates within a year but still a pretty easy process. Now, you might have access to QuickBooks Desktop for a year prior to the point that they moved to the subscription model in which case you may still be able to use that software but if you want to move forward to 2024, you would think you'd either have to purchase the software or use the 30-day free trial. The other place you might be is you might not have access to any QuickBooks Desktop at this point in time, in which case you might either want to purchase it or you might want to get access to it so you can test it out and practice with it and you could possibly use the free 30-day trial for that. So first we're going to be talking about the upgrading. So if you had 2023, we'll talk about the upgrading process to move it from 2023 to 2024 and then later we'll talk about the process that if you don't have anything at this time and you want to get the free 30-day trial, we'll look at that process. So first we're looking at the scenario, you already have QuickBooks Desktop, you have 2023, you're trying to upgrade it to 2024. Okay, well the first step would be to make a backup because doing the updates here are a little bit more complex than just updating the updates that are within a year. In other words, Intuit, the owner of QuickBooks will have updates during the year in which case you could just have automatic updates on typically and then at the end of the year or each year they usually have a whole new downloadable software to have the full upgrade from year to year. So that's where we are at now moving from 2023 to 2024. They usually release the new updates as you can see here before the end of the year. So kind of like with car sales, the 2024 version has been released before the start of 2024. So you may get an email providing a link to your Intuit account. So the question is, well, how do I do that then? Well, you might get an email and the email will walk you through the process. It'll give you a link to the account and you can go from there. However, you might get spam and stuff, I worry about spam. I don't like clicking on things on emails even if it's from a trusted source like Intuit because, you know, there's some sneaky people out there and they try to bait you and whatnot and you don't want to eat the bait because you know there's a hook in it. There's a hook in it. So I don't, even if like any case, so you might want to go directly to the Intuit website because if you purchase the software you should have an account there, you go to the Intuit website and then you can download the new software or the upgraded software from there and install it which should basically overwrite in essence the other prior software for the most part unless you don't want to do that, in which case you would have 2023 and 2024 on your computer but usually you would basically kind of update it to 2024 and then go from there. Okay, so how do you do that? Well, if you go to the Intuit website, intuit.com, Intuit.com, the owner of QuickBooks, they have multiple softwares. I would typically then go to the Intuit up top. Their website currently looks like this. It's have this option up top to go to the Intuit portion of their website for some time now. Then there's a dropdown currently on the right to sign in. You don't want to sign into your online QuickBooks because we're using the desktop version at this time. So if you have the desktop version, then that's what we're talking about right now. If you go to the desktop version and sign in, then you have your manage screen over here. So now I've got different things that we could manage on the screen. You might have the desktop. You might have an online and different kind of options here. We're looking for the desktop version. So that's what we would click on here. Now then you'll usually have the software on their site. So the software is downloaded on your computer, but you still have the information on their server because it's a subscription type of model. So it's not going to upgrade automatically, but they still have the information related to your subscription model online. So you look up your subscription here and then you can download. Now this little button will allow you to download it directly, but most likely you would first like to go into the details because you're going to need the product number and license number to finish the installation. So go into the details instead of the drop-down and then you'll see your product details. This license number and product number, you're going to need those. Make sure you have them, screenshot them, save them somewhere because when you install, you might have to shut down the internet. You shouldn't have any other programs open. In other words, when you install, sometimes you do and you kind of cheat and you're kind of rolling the dice there. You're like, whatever, I'm not closing programs. I'm not taking off my, especially my antivirus. I won't do it even though they tell you to, okay, okay. But you generally want this closed and that means you're going to want to save this license and product number possibly like in a clipboard or something like that that you can reopen pretty easily when the screen pops up that says you're going to need the license and product number instead of going like, ah, and then you have to log back into it and you forgot your password because you never have to go in there because you have the desktop version, but you have any case. So then you download it so you can download the 2024 version and then here's the download. If you're in Chrome, it'll look like this, right? It's going to download. This is not the actual software. This is the software that's going to run the software, right? This is the installation software. After you open it, it should install automatically. If you have any problems with that, you can then download this onto your computer and then open it. But usually most people just open it from here and it should open and start the installation. When it installs, it first has, this is a little tricky because here's your QuickBooks license agreement and most people are like, yeah, whatever, I read it and then they continue. Not me. I read the whole thing because I'm completely, that would be lying. I don't lie to it. So I totally like, but most people probably click on it and then they make you click on it, which will open it from the browser. See how this is, this is beiged out right here. So you have to click on it and then it gives you the button to say I've read it. So they make you at least open it up. So you probably read like the first bold word on it or something and then you can continue. So then it's, then here it is. Here's the page. I told you it was going to happen. This is where it says license and product number. So you need that license and product number. You probably forgot what that was when you first purchased it because you just used it to install the first time and then you forgot about it. But if you go into your Intuit website and look at the details in the same place that we went last time, you can find this information without having to contact Intuit or anything because that's a pain and you can get it there and it's not a problem. I know it's frustrating. You should have saved it onto a document like I said last time. In any case, nobody listens to turtle. So choose your installation type. So most people are usually going to use the Express which will install using the default settings. So, I mean, if you have a standard installation on your computer, that's usually what you're going to do. However, if you don't want it, for example, possibly to overwrite the prior software, you want 2023 and 2024 on your computer. You might not want to do that. If people would want it to overwrite from 2023 to 2024, you would think. Or if you're at a larger company that is installing it on a network, then, of course, you want to talk to your IT and have them help you with the custom and network option installation. But again, if it's just your computer, this is recommended pretty simple straightforward process.