You can get the discount for Intuit’s accounting software in a ton of places on the web, and we highly recommend comparison shopping to find the best discount. A lot of time buying from Intuit is a bad idea because they charge the highest prices when you buy it for a download. The good news is you’ll be able download QuickBooks directly from Amazon soon.

New versions of QuickBooks are generally released in the autumn of the year before the release. As an example, QuickBooks 2010 was released to the market in October 2009.  QuickBooks 2011 was released September 27, 2010.  We expect QuickBooks 2012 to be released in the Sept/Oct timeframe of 2011.

Quickbooks 2011 Deals: Upgrade from QuickBooks 2007 or QuickBooks 2008 to the newest version for the full feature version of the latest software.

Quickbooks Accountant 2011: QuickBooks Accountant 2011 is packed full of new features for accountants and has gotten rave reviews from bookkeepers and financial professionals.

Here are some of the top features that QuickBooks Expert Scott Gregory is looking for in the QuickBooks 2011 release:

• A remit to address for vendors
• Better tools to manage accounts receivable
• A redesigned set of tools to customize reports
• The end of forced phone-in registration to get a license code.
• A fix on the problem that occurs with average cost on inventory items
• A refresh of the customer center
• The ability to purchase two additional licenses for QuickBooks Enterprise

You can find the complete list of QuickBooks 2011 requests on Scott Gregory’s Blog.  Scott is a QuickBooks accounting software expert and has been using QuickBooks for years.

We’ve been monitoring the web to find QuickBooks 2011 discounts and deals and they pop up.  Some places we’ve identified so far are QuickBooks-Discounts.com and even buying direct through QuickBooks.

Here are some excerpts from the Intuit press release on the features of QuickBooks 2011:

QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2011 build on prior versions by streamlining important accounting tasks, such as invoicing and collecting payments. The new Customer Snapshot and Customer and Vendor History features provide at-a-glance views of important customer and vendor details. Users can also take advantage of the power of QuickBooks Connect, a new service that lets small businesses access key QuickBooks data remotely via the Internet or a mobile device. Additionally, as with previous versions, QuickBooks 2011 helps small business owners stay organized by allowing them to have their business information in one place.

That sounds great, but to get a better pulse on what the accounting community thinks about QuickBooks 2011 Pro, QuickBooks 2011 Premier, and QuickBooks 2011 Mac, let’s take a look at what the reviews and software sites have to say:

MacWorld QuickBooks 2011 Review: “In QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac, it’s easier to enter that data into the application. The new version also gives users the ability to add mileage data to invoices if that’s something a user includes for billing.”

Tuaw Apple Blog: “QuickBooks 2011 is a very nice update indeed. QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac will be available for download or for phone and Web orders.”

Stay tuned for updates on QuickBooks 2012, the next version of QuickBooks.