Intuit Announces Winner of the 2018 $100,000 Small Business App Showdown
November 07 2018 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
G1VE enables QuickBooks Users to Donate a
Percentage of Monthly Revenue to Nonprofits
The power of the Intuit QuickBooks platform is that it creates
meaningful connections between the three entrepreneur communities
it serves – millions of small businesses, accounting professionals,
and the developers who add to the QuickBooks experience with apps
that integrate with the platform to help small businesses grow and
prosper.
At QuickBooks Connect, Intuit announced G1VE as the winner of
the 2018 $100,000 Small Business App Showdown, a contest that
honors the best new apps published on the QuickBooks App Store over
the last year.
G1VE enables QuickBooks businesses to allocate a percentage of
their monthly revenue – typically 1% – to their favorite
nonprofits. Integrated with QuickBooks Online, each month G1VE
calculates their monthly donation amount based on their revenue,
then collects and distributes it to their favorite
nonprofits. G1VE provides reports and records for tax time and
creates a G1VE profile page for every business, showcasing their
giving to their customers and communities.
“We know that with an accountant and the right applications for
their business, the odds of success increase significantly for
small businesses,” said Alex Barnett, director of the Intuit
Developer Group. “G1VE brings this to a new level by enabling small
businesses to do good while managing their finances
successfully.”
“Winning this year’s App Showdown and being recognized as a top
new app on Intuit’s App Store is an incredible honor,” said Regis
Malloy, founder and CEO of G1VE. “The $100,000 prize money and
support from Intuit will enable us to invest even more in
developing creative solutions to connect the QuickBooks community
with great causes.”
The finalists in this year’s App Showdown came from all over the
world including the U.S., Canada, Australia, Belarus and the UK.
Two of the finalists are apps that were cultivated at Intuit’s
Small Business Hackathons, which means they went from hack to app
in less than a year.
This year’s contest kicked off in August, when developers with
apps published between August 16, 2017 and August 15, 2018 entered
their app for consideration as a finalist. Accountants, small
businesses, and app developers all participated in voting for their
favorite apps. Intuit then judged all of the entered apps on the
quality of their integration, level of innovation, market impact,
number of connections, and five-star reviews. That score was
combined with total community votes, and the finalists were
selected.
The finalists competed on stage at Intuit’s annual QuickBooks
Connect conference in San Jose, CA, in front of a panel of judges
and an audience of accountants, small business owners and other
developers.
Rao Meka, co-founder of last year’s winner ShopVox, says the
experience and exposure that comes from winning the contest can
change a company “dramatically.” ShopVox provides thousands of
businesses worldwide with a simple solution for creative custom
manufacturing of promotional products like screen-printing apparel
and signage.
About Intuit
Intuit’s mission is to Power Prosperity Around
the World. Its global products and platforms,
including TurboTax,
QuickBooks, Mint and Turbo, are designed
to empower consumers, self-employed, and small businesses
to improve their financial lives, finding them more money with
the least amount of work, while giving them complete confidence in
their actions and decisions. Intuit’s innovative ecosystem of
financial management solutions serves partners and 46
million customers worldwide, unleashing the power of many for the
prosperity of one. For the latest news and in-depth
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