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If you prefer, you can work with QBO using QBO Desktop; it’s purported to run faster than QBO in your browser, but we’ll let you judge for yourself. To download QBO Desktop, use your browser to navigate to the QBO sign-in page: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/online/apps/. On the page that appears, you’ll see a Free Download button; click it and follow the onscreen instructions to download and install QBO Desktop.

Both Windows and Mac users can use the same QBO Desktop app; what you download from the QBO sign-in page works on both platforms. Ingenious, don’t you think?

The word “app” has become a buzzword and is often used when it probably shouldn’t be. In this chapter, we’re using the word “app” only when we refer to the mobile versions of QBO and QBOA that are available for download from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. In many places online, you’ll find references to a QBO Windows app — and, at the time we wrote this, there is no Windows app per se. There is QBO Desktop, which allows Windows users (except Windows Phone users) to use QBO while being mobile — on, for example, laptops and tablets — but QBO Desktop is not available from any of the “mobile device” stores (Google Play or Apple App) and therefore, we’re not calling it an app.

Figure 1-4 shows QBO Desktop with a QBO company open, and Figure 1-5 shows QBOA just after opening it in QBO Desktop (but before opening any client company).

FIGURE 1-4: QBO while working in QBO Desktop.

FIGURE 1-5: QBOA while working in QBO Desktop.

If you compare Figure 1-5 to Figure 1-1, you’ll notice that, once again, QBOA users have the same additional options in QBO Desktop that they have in a browser. The menus at the top of the screen are the biggest visual difference between QBO and QBOA in QBO Desktop and QBO and QBOA in a browser. If you’ve been a QuickBooks Desktop product user, you know that you can use the menus to navigate. Under the hood, QBO Desktop offers some options that you won’t find readily available in a browser, such as the ability to work in multiple windows.