In a post on its Firm of the Future website, Intuit said this week the test “will be visible only to a percentage of prospective customers visiting QuickBooks.com” and can be purchased only by a limited number of visitors. “As we near this limited number, we will reduce the percentage of visitors able to view the test,” the company wrote.

The new price compares to al test of $200 per month in March.

Intuit is hiring more QB Online certified ProAdvisors to provide bookkeeping services to Live customers. The current staff of 10 located in Boise, Idaho, will be expanded with the addition of 40 remote ProAdvisors “some of whom are tax experts who previously were part of our TurboTax Live team.’ Intuit described the QB Live program as designed to “fill gaps for small businesses and self-employed who aren’t currently connected to ProAdvisors and accounting professionals.".

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind