QuickBooks Assistant Empowers Self-Employed and Small Businesses to Make Smarter Decisions
November 17 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Chatbot Speeds Access to the Intelligence
and Insights in QuickBooks
Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today unveiled its latest innovation
designed to help millions better understand and navigate their
finances. QuickBooks Assistant offers a conversational chat
experience that solves a common problem for the self-employed and
small business owners – quickly and easily staying on top of their
finances.
“We know people who work for themselves have a lot on their mind
with limited time to manage the day-to-day, let alone unearth
information and insights about their business,” explained Alex
Chriss, chief product officer, QuickBooks at Intuit. “By adding a
virtual assistant side-by-side with business finances, people
simply tap to ask questions and find answers – rather than running
reports and analyzing data. QuickBooks Assistant represents a
turning point in how work gets done today, with an eye toward
improving success rates in the future.”
QuickBooks Assistant is an example of Intuit’s continued focus
on innovations that help customers make smarter decisions. The new
chatbot combines data-driven insights and natural language
processing to ease business operations by merely asking questions
or stating requests, using a smartphone. The service understands
intent and identifies context to uncover numerous financial data
points – from tax obligations to expense tracking, cash flow,
profitability and more. Benefits include:
- Ease of Use: QuickBooks
Assistant understands a wide variety of financial questions.
Customers simply ask how much money they made, what they’ll owe in
taxes, or which customers are most profitable – and QuickBooks
Assistant will share the answer, no need to toggle between screens
or set up queries.
- Time Savings: Using chat helps
customers instantly access their financial snapshot with a simple
question or command, making it easier than ever to review data or
information.
- Business Confidence: Customers
now access the insights necessary to make financial decisions when
it matters most, and feel confident that they are making
intelligent, informed decisions about their finances whenever,
wherever.
- Mobile Office: Whether newly
self-employed or a veteran of the gig economy, people who work for
themselves are regularly on the go, focused on their businesses,
with limited office time to review key business metrics and
finances.
- How to Guide: For people who are
unfamiliar with specific features or capabilities of QuickBooks,
QuickBooks Assistant now acts as a “how to” guide – answering
questions about how to add an account, create an invoice and more –
making the product even easier to use than ever before.
QuickBooks Assistant is available today in QuickBooks
Self-Employed for iOS and Android, and will be released for
QuickBooks Online in 2018 with a beta now available in QuickBooks
Labs. Both products are targeted at helping the self-employed and
small businesses better manage their finances, with easy to use
features and services that make everything from expense and mileage
tracking to invoicing and getting paid easier and more
seamless.
About Intuit
Intuit Inc. is committed to powering prosperity around the
world for consumers, small businesses and the self-employed through
its ecosystem of innovative financial management solutions.
Its flagship products and services
include QuickBooks® and TurboTax®, which make it
easier to manage small businesses and tax
preparation and filing. QuickBooks Self-Employed provides
freelancers and independent contractors with an easy and affordable
way to manage their finances and save money at tax time,
while Mint delivers financial tools and insights to help
people make smart choices about their money.
Intuit's ProConnect brand
portfolio includes ProConnect Tax Online, ProSeries®
and Lacerte®, the company's leading tax preparation offerings
for professional accountants.
Founded in 1983, Intuit serves 46 million customers in North
America, Europe, Australia, Brazil and India, with revenue of $5.2
billion in its fiscal year 2017. The company has approximately
8,200 employees with major offices in the United
States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, India, Israel, Australia and
other locations. More information can be found
at www.intuit.com.
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