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QBO doesn’t operate as a complete, standalone accounting solution. It has functional limitations. The section “Addressing Payroll Needs” highlights one such limitation — and shows how you can use Intuit add-ons to achieve more functionality in QBO. And, earlier in this chapter, we briefly mention Intuit’s Payments app, which supports electronic customer payment processing and integrates with QBO.

But those aren’t the only add-on apps available for QBO; third-party developers have been creating apps to enhance the functionality of QBO. And, over time, you can expect more apps to be developed.

In Chapter 1, we made a distinction about apps: In that chapter, we use the term to describe the versions of QBO available from mobile device stores (Google Play and Apple App) and distinguish them from QBO Desktop, which is not available in mobile device stores but works on both Windows and Mac computers. In this section, when we refer to apps, we refer to products developed to enhance the functionality of QBO; these apps are available through Intuit’s app store, called the App Center, and you can find them through QBO.

You can click the Apps link in the Navigation bar that runs down the left side of QBO to visit the App Center and explore available apps (see Figure 2-2).

FIGURE 2-2: Take a trip to the App Center to search for additional functionality for QBO.

Click any app to navigate to a web page that describes the app, provides pricing information, and often provides a video about the app (see Figure 2-3).

FIGURE 2-3: When you click an app in the App Center, you see details for the app.

Although add-on apps can provide additional functionality in QBO, some functionality is still missing; no doubt, that functionality will appear over time. For example, using QBO, you can’t

 Track your balance sheet by class.

 Process more than 350,000 transactions annually without QBO Advanced.

 Manage a robust inventory.

But apps are making inroads to eliminating these limitations. For example, Lettuce, an app that provided advanced inventory management features for QBO, did such a fine job of handling inventory functions that Intuit acquired Lettuce for the purpose of integrating it into QBO.