How do my students get QuickBooks® Online for free?

Through Intuit Education: you invite each student to free Student Trial companies, and nobody pays for a licence. Standard students need them for the companies they build, Imagine Photography in the Do It Yourself exercises and YinYang Graphic Design in the case study and capstone. A Lite class skips all of this, because every Lite lesson happens in Craig’s Landscaping, Intuit’s free Test Drive company.

A Lite class

No QuickBooks® account. Students open the Test Drive from the book.

A Standard class

Two free Intuit Education Student Trial companies for each student: one for Imagine Photography, one for YinYang Graphic Design.

Set it up through Intuit Education

1. 1

   Register as an instructor.

   Sign up in Intuit’s Instructor Portal at Intuit Education.

2. 2

   Create a class there.

   This is a class in Intuit Education, separate from your class here.

3. 3

   Invite each student to a Student Trial company.

   Intuit emails the invitation. Each one is a full QuickBooks® Online Plus company, free for 12 months, for practice only. Send two: one for Imagine Photography and one for YinYang Graphic Design.

Two invitations, from two places

Your students get two separate emails: your class invitation from us, which opens the book, and Intuit’s, which opens their QuickBooks® company. They need both. If Intuit’s hasn’t arrived, resend it from Intuit Education. For ours, see Invitations not arriving.

A student learning on their own

Student Trials only come through an instructor. A student without one can use a free Intuit Accountant Suite profile, which includes a QuickBooks® Online Advanced company, or a free 30-day QuickBooks® Online Plus trial. They need two trials, one for each company, and should cancel the billing when they finish. The book’s Preface walks through both.