Editorial Standards
How Quickbooky sources, writes, checks and corrects its coverage -- including where the material comes from and how AI is used in producing it.
This page describes how Quickbooky produces what you read here. It is meant to be specific enough to hold us to.
Where our material comes from
Quickbooky covers QuickBooks from the outside, using material that is publicly available:
- Vendor announcements and status pages – product releases, pricing and packaging changes, service incidents.
- Public news coverage of Intuit and the wider small-business accounting market.
- Public community discussion – the forums and boards where QuickBooks users report problems, and the answers that resolved them.
- Publicly documented product behaviour – what the software does, which fields it fills in, and where it leaves work for the user.
- Public regulatory and corporate filings, where a story turns on one.
We do not have access to non-public Intuit information, we are not briefed by Intuit, and we do not have a relationship with Intuit of any kind.
How articles are written
Quickbooky’s articles are produced with AI assistance. Source material is gathered and summarised, a draft is written, and the draft is then scored against that source material by two independent automated reviewers. A draft that either reviewer fails is redrafted or discarded – it is not published. We would rather publish nothing on a topic than publish something we cannot stand behind.
We say this plainly because you should be able to judge what you are reading. It also sets the standard we hold the work to: an AI-assisted article that repeats a claim its source does not support is a defect, the same as it would be in any other newsroom.
What we will not do
- We do not take payment for coverage. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no “partner content” presented as reporting.
- Articles carry no commercial links. Our reporting does not link out to products or services, ours or anyone else’s.
- We do not invent specifics. Dates, version numbers, prices, error codes and the scope of an outage are reported only where a source establishes them. Where a fact is uncertain, we leave it out rather than guess.
- We do not give professional advice. What you read here is reporting on accounting software. Decisions about your books belong with you and your accountant.
Advertising
Quickbooky carries advertising. Advertisers have no say in what we cover, no advance sight of coverage, and no influence over any article. Ads are not shown on our legal, contact or utility pages.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to fix it.
Tell us through the contact desk and say which article and what is wrong with it. Substantive corrections are made to the article itself. Our full corrections and disclaimer policy is on the disclaimer page.
Trademarks
QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online are trademarks of Intuit Inc. We name them because reporting on software requires naming it. Their use here does not imply any endorsement by, or affiliation with, Intuit Inc.