For over 40 years, Intuit has helped individuals, small businesses, and accountants prosper—but we haven’t done it alone. Our success is built on the tremendous talent and dedication of developers and partners who strengthen our community and solve real customer problems. As we close out 2025, we want to thank them for everything they do for Intuit and our shared customers.
With the help of our developer community, 2025 brought big wins: AI-powered platform growth, innovative solutions, and a relentless focus on customer needs. As we welcome 2026, let’s look back at the year’s most popular articles from the Intuit Developer Blog and celebrate what resonated most with our community.
Highlights from 2025
Intuit App Partner Program launch
The launch of the Intuit App Partner Program in July marked a major milestone for the developer community and quickly became one of our most-read articles of the year. The announcement introduced a tiered partnership structure—Builder, Silver, Gold, and Platinum—with each tier offering progressively enhanced benefits to help developers grow their integrations and businesses.
Learn more about the Intuit App Partner Program.
New APIs
Projects API – Intuit’s new Projects API allows QuickBooks Online users track profitability by organizing income and expenses in a unified way within their apps. They can create and manage projects while tracking income, expenses and profitability.
Custom Fields API – As part of Intuit’s new Premium APIs for Gold and Platinum partners, we introduced the Custom Fields API. It delivers a way for developers to extend QuickBooks data models without workarounds.
Sales Tax API – The QuickBooks Online Sales Tax API, launched as part of the Premium APIs suite, takes the complex out of managing sales tax. Developers can now integrate automated sales tax calculations directly into their apps.
Time API + Payroll Compensation – With Intuit’s new Time API with Payroll Compensation API, developers can extend QuickBooks Online Payroll’s time-tracking capabilities into their own apps. This means pay types, such as salary, hourly, overtime, holiday and more, can be accessed seamlessly while creating time entries enriched with payroll context.
Accounting API – Updates to our Accounting API include our newly rebuilt webhooks platform, which requires all app developers on the platform to start consuming webhooks notifications in a new CloudEvents format.
New referral management tools
In November, we introduced new referral management tools for Silver, Gold, and Platinum partners, providing a referral tracking dashboard with automated lifecycle insights from initiation to conversion. These tools help developers understand their app’s performance in the Intuit App Marketplace, make data-driven decisions, and save time—without building custom analytics.
Read our dashboard-ready insight blog post to learn how to leverage these insights to unlock growth.
Silver Tier growth toolkit
For Builder Tier partners in our App Partner Program, marketing is filled with challenges but upgrading to the Silver Tier ensures that these challenges are a thing of the past. Whether it’s campaign templates or educational resources, start growing your campaigns with our Silver Tier Growth Toolkit.
Developer Day 2025
Fishbowl, one of Intuit’s vital partners, provides an integrated manufacturing, warehouse, and inventory management solution to QuickBooks users around the world. Kendrick Hair, Fishbowl’s Chief Evangelist, attended Intuit’s Developer Day 2025 and wrote about his experience. His goal was to encourage other app developers to participate in the event he describes as the “heartbeat of the QuickBooks developer system.”
Learn more about Kendrick’s unique experience in his Takeaways from Developer Day 2025.
New badge feature for apps
The Intuit App Partner Program features numerous applications that effectively address diverse customer needs, and we wanted to help users quickly identify top-performing solutions. The answer? App badges that recognize applications in our program that meet specific performance criteria.
See how you can start standing out with our new app badges.
Intuit leadership profile
Meet Ken Chestnut, Director of Global Partner Ecosystem for QuickBooks and Mailchimp. Since joining Intuit in 2023, Ken has been instrumental in building and growing global partner businesses—first with Mailchimp’s technology and service partners, and now leading the ecosystem strategy for both platforms with the passion and expertise needed to power prosperity around the world.
Curious about Ken’s path to this role and what it means for the partner community? Dive into Ken’s journey to learn more.
Welcome 2026
2025 was filled with remarkable achievements across the Intuit community, and we hope you’ll explore the highlights for yourself!
We’re excited about what 2026 holds and grateful to our developers and partners for their ongoing passion, dedication, and partnership. Stay tuned for new initiatives, innovations, and opportunities to connect.