QuickBooks® 2011 Release 6 will be available for download Thursday, March 17 at 12 p.m. PST. This major update introduces some significant improvements for many product versions.

For a complete list of enhancements and release notes or to download and install the manual update, click here, then select the appropriate product.

The automatic update in-product will be available on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. You are encouraged to allow this automatic update and to accept the patch.

RELEASE 6 DETAILS

Below is a chart that outlines what’s available with R6 for each product version.

Below are just a few of the enhancements highlighted in this Alert:

1. Transactions in History Pane
2. Improved Memorized Transactions
3. Batch Invoice for Time and Expenses

TRANSACTIONS IN HISTORY PANE

Save valuable time when accessing important information related to transactions.

What Intuit did: The new right pane tab on the history window shows transaction specific information like the items above. In addition, you have the ability to create notes on supported transactions, saving you time when accessing.

IMPROVED MEMORIZED TRANSACTIONS

With this improvement, you’ll save time when entering the same transaction multiple times!
What Intuit did:
A new window displays a list of the memorized transactions that are due to be entered:

They also improved the wording of the scheduling options to reduce confusion.

BATCH INVOICE FOR TIME AND EXPENSES

With this new feature, you will reduce the time needed to invoice multiple customers for billable time and expenses.

What Intuit did: The previous workflow only allowed a single invoice to be generated.

NOW, you can view billable transactions for multiple customers and view the billable amounts for time, expenses, mileage and purchased items.

You select the customers to be invoiced, generate invoices and select delivery options (email or print).

NOTES

1. If you cancel your ProAdvisor Program membership or do not renew your membership, access to the automatic updates that are part of QuickBooks Accountant Plus will terminate immediately. You will continue to be able to use the QuickBooks Accountant software but will lose the enhancements included in previous updates and you will not receive enhancement updates going forward.
2. LaunchPad functionality will be available for QuickBooks Pro/Premier+ and QuickBooks Accountant+ for ProAdvisors by mid-April.
3. The release affects Windows desktop versions of 2011.
4. Batch Invoice for Time and Expenses is only available in Premier versions of QuickBooks.