QuickBooks (Desktop) 2016 Release 5

March 3, 2016

10:22 AM

The following changes, improvements, and fixes were made to QuickBooks Pro 2016, QuickBooks Premier 2016, and Enterprise Solutions 16.0 in Release 5 now available for 'manual' download (from the Intuit Support Website), or scheduled to begin 'automatic update' (if you have that function enabled) within the next few days.

QBD 2016R5 Update

Should you update - if you need one of these 'fixes' then you probably should do so, especially if you are looking for PCI/EMV Credit-card Compliance by March 31, 2016. If you are not in 'immediate need' of one of these solutions, then you may want to 'hang off' updating for a bit to see if any 'update related bugs' are discovered.

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ES R5 problems

The R5 update broke the ability to scan checks with Intuit Check Solution. After 4 hours on phone with support, we had to roll back to R3.

Lisa Pierpont more than 10 years ago

A good reason NOT to update to R5

Sounds like a very good example of why I generally recommend you wait to update to a new release until it has been 'field tested' by other users who have then reported problems that hopefully Intuit 'jumps on' and fixes with a push (if they don't 'withdraw' the update).

In this case the EMV/PCI compliance crunch is on, and many users will need R5 to deal with some of the related 'hardware support' requirements; however, Intuit has already advised that they are still 'way (way, way, way, way, way) behind in getting EMV hardware ready to distribute to those users who pre-ordered it. So the run to install R5 for purposes of EMV/PCI compliance is in effect 'negated' by the lack of EMV hardware (at least for now).

insightfulaccountant.com more than 10 years ago