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Qapter(R) and Intuit quickbooks(r) Online integration delivers a seamless, efficient path from estimating to accounting. Integrated workflow eliminates manual data entry, preserving line-item detail straight from the estimate to ease bookkeeping for shop owners and managers WESTLAKE, Texas, September 17, 2026 - Solera, the global leader in vehicle lifecycle management solutions, announced Qapter's enhanced integration capabilities with Intuit QuickBooks Online, providing collision repair shops with a simpler, more accurate way to move from estimating to invoicing and accounting. This integrated enhancement creates a seamless workflow that eliminates duplicate data entry, reduces errors, and helps businesses get paid faster. For many businesses, the transition from collision repair estimate creation to invoicing can be time-consuming and error-prone. Re-entering information between systems often leads to missing line items, inaccurate invoices, and delays in billing. Qapter addresses these challenges by creating a direct connection between estimating and accounting workflows. With the industry-leading claims management and repair estimating Qapter platform, body shops can build detailed estimates that capture complete line-level information, including parts, labor, taxes, and customer details. Estimates can be reviewed and finalized before being converted into professional PDF invoices, ensuring accuracy and consistency throughout the process. Qapter preserves full line-item detail when generating invoices, ensuring accounting records accurately reflect the original estimate and provides greater transparency for both businesses and customers. Solera continues to pioneer solutions that transform how the collision repair industry operates, combining innovation and technology with a deep understanding of the evolving needs of shop owners to help create more efficient solutions, connected ecosystems and sustainable workflows. "The industry needs a faster, more reliable path from estimate approval to payment. At Solera, we build solutions with our customers in mind, using innovation to simplify work for shop owners, improve efficiency, and drive meaningful progress across the claims ecosystem." - Jeremy Smolen, Director of Product Management - North America Claims, at Solera. By connecting Qapter directly with Intuit QuickBooks, Solera | Audatex is helping customers streamline operations, improve accuracy, and shorten the time between completing work and collecting revenue. This integration provides a clear and efficient path from Estimate | Invoice | Accounting, enabling teams to align estimating and financial processes instantly while maintaining the integrity of every line item from start to finish. To learn more about Qapter Estimating and its features, please visit: claims.solera.com/intelligent-estimating/ About Solera. Solera is a global leader in vehicle lifecycle management software, data, and services. Operating in more than 120 countries and serving over 280,000 customers, Solera provides the digital infrastructure that powers critical operations across the automotive ecosystem, serving manufacturers, dealerships, insurers, repairers, recyclers, parts and fleet operators worldwide. At its core, Solera is built on a proprietary automotive data foundation and a cloud-based AI infrastructure designed to operate at industry scale. By embedding intelligence directly into workflows and continuously innovating across its platform, Solera enables customers to move faster, reduce complexity, and deliver better outcomes. By serving the full vehicle lifecycle, Solera creates unique synergies across its network, helping customers unlock greater value, improve performance, and succeed in an increasingly complex and connected industry. Solera is home to many leading brands in the automotive and vehicle ecosystem, including Identifix, Audatex, DealerSocket, Omnitracs, LoJack, Spireon, eDriving, cap hpi, Autodata, and others. For more information, visit https://www.solera.com/.

UBS sticks with Sage 'buy' call as rival Intuit flexes in the mid-market. Published 10:35 Updated 14:59 UBS has reaffirmed its 'buy' rating and 1,075p price target on Sage, the accounting software group, after rival Intuit set out fresh evidence of momentum in the mid-market. In morning trading, the shares were up 1% at 1,016.5p. Intuit used a capital markets day last week to report that its mid-market customer base grew 28% over the year to 449,000, with revenue up 39% to $1.6 billion. The bank flagged the figures as the most important read-across for Sage investors, given how closely the two compete for larger small-business customers. Even so, UBS said Sage's own mid-market engine, the Intacct product, showed no signs of stress. Intacct grew US revenue 26% in the first half to £267 million, an annualised $715 million, plus an estimated $107 million booked elsewhere. The open question for UBS is how much of Sage's growth has come from converting Intuit's 715,000 QuickBooks Desktop users, and whether that gets harder. Intuit put the mid-market opportunity at $89 billion, including $30 billion across verticals such as construction and not-for-profit, both important markets for Sage. It is also spending to defend its turf, lifting mid-market sales headcount 36% last year. Sage reports full-year results on 19 November.

Intuit Investor Day puts AI at center of growth reset after customer misses. September 17, 2026 Key points. * AI is central to Intuit's growth reset: The company plans to make much of its DIY tax experience AI-native and use AI to automate assisted-tax preparation, while expanding its "Intuit Intelligence" platform across its products. * Intuit acknowledged missing fiscal 2026 new-customer targets, particularly in DIY tax and QuickBooks Online, with price cited as the leading reason customers left. The company plans to respond with lower-cost entry points such as QuickBooks Free, Credit Karma Tax and expanded local and partnership channels. * Intuit reaffirmed fiscal 2027 revenue-growth guidance of 9% to 10%, led by its business platform, and expects significant margin expansion. It also raised its dividend by 15% while continuing share repurchases. * MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by October 1st. Intuit NASDAQ: INTU used its 2026 Investor Day to outline a strategy centered on scaling its AI-driven "Intuit Intelligence" platform, expanding its mid-market and assisted-tax businesses, and restoring new customer growth after falling short of internal targets in fiscal 2026. Chairman and CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the company delivered strong overall results, supported by its three major growth bets: assisted tax, money benefits and mid-market offerings. Together, those businesses account for about 30% of Intuit's revenue and are growing about 30%, he said. However, Intuit did not meet its new-customer targets, particularly in do-it-yourself tax filing and its core QuickBooks Online business. "We fell short of our new customer targets, which impacted our tax performance," Goodarzi said. "While we gained share in assisted tax, where we lost share was in DIY, and we lost quality DIY customers. The number one reason why customers left us was price." AI platform and customer-growth priorities. Goodarzi described Intuit Intelligence as a financial system of intelligence built on permissioned customer data, financial and industry expertise, and AI and human-intelligence capabilities. The company said it has data on 10 million businesses, averaging more than 625,000 data points per business. Intuit plans to make most of its DIY tax-preparation experience AI-native for the coming tax season. Under that approach, AI would gather data, prepare tax returns and answer customer questions, while customers review and approve outcomes. In assisted tax, Intuit plans to use AI to automate preparation work while tax experts review, sign and take accountability for returns. Chief Technology Officer Alex Balazs said Intuit has integrated with more than 60 large language models and uses different AI models, traditional machine learning, deterministic code and human oversight depending on the task. He said Intuit's product-development transformation improved coding velocity by 40% during its first 90 days while reducing failure rates by 31%. Balazs also said 70% of Intuit's code pull requests were delivered by AI and that the company is on pace to double development velocity by the end of the fiscal year. The company identified two main priorities: scaling its existing growth bets and accelerating new-customer acquisition. Intuit plans to broaden entry points through offerings including QuickBooks Free, QuickBooks Lite, money-related front doors, expanded local presence and partnerships with large language model providers. Business platform targets mid-market, payments and accountants. Ashley Still, executive vice president and general manager of Intuit's Small Business and Mid-Market Group, said the business platform grew nearly 18% to nearly $12 billion in fiscal 2026. Mid-market revenue and money-related offerings each grew more than 30%, she said. David Hahn, executive vice president and general manager of Intuit's Services Group, said Intuit ended the fiscal year with nearly 8 million online paid customers, up 4% year over year, while retention remained at 83%. He said Intuit's online-services revenue grew 24%, including 31% growth in its money portfolio and 17% growth in workforce solutions. Intuit said it will seek to gain customers through lower-friction offerings aimed at businesses that do not yet use financial-management software. In the first six months after launch, 20,000 customers were actively using QuickBooks Free, converting to paid offerings or using payments services, Hahn said. * Payments and bill-pay volume totaled $229 billion, up 30%. * Payroll volume totaled $355 billion. * Bill-pay volume reached $54 billion, up 89% year over year. * Capital loan volume reached $7 billion, up 75% year over year. Still said mid-market revenue rose 39% and customer growth rose 28% in fiscal 2026. Intuit Enterprise Suite reached nearly $150 million in annualized revenue, a fourfold increase from the prior year. The company plans to expand industry-specific offerings, beginning with construction and extending to manufacturing and nonprofit organizations. Intuit also emphasized accountants as direct customers rather than solely channel partners. Its Intuit Accountant Suite has been adopted by more than 150,000 accounting firms, according to the company. More than 70% of mid-market businesses work with an external accountant, and 25% of new Intuit Enterprise Suite contracts came from accountant referrals during the year. The company's business platform is expected to generate compound annual revenue growth of 10% to 15% over the next three years. Consumer strategy focuses on Credit Karma and tax share. Mark Notarainni, executive vice president and general manager of Intuit's Consumer Group, said consumer revenue grew 11% to $8.6 billion in fiscal 2026. Intuit lost one point of IRS e-file share, reflecting weaker-than-needed growth in its DIY tax franchise. The company plans to position Credit Karma as a year-round entry point for money, tax and personal-finance services. Intuit reported 37.4 million platform customers, up 2%, and average revenue per platform customer of $198, up 11%. To attract price-sensitive filers, Intuit is expanding Credit Karma Tax, which offers federal filing at no charge and state returns for $15, with no interruptive upsells. The company said a tax-year 2025 pilot generated 80% customer incrementality, meaning most customers would otherwise have been lost, while 34% of Credit Karma Tax Gen Z customers were new to the Credit Karma platform. Intuit also plans to expand assisted tax through AI-native service experiences, transparent pricing and a local-market expansion of more than 30%. The company said nearly 25% of its full-service tax growth came from a $150 transparent-price offer, while assisted-tax share nearly doubled in fiscal 2026. The consumer platform is expected to grow revenue at a 4% to 8% compound annual rate over the next three years. Financial outlook and capital returns. CFO Sandeep Aujla said Intuit's total revenue increased 14% in fiscal 2026 to more than $21 billion. GAAP operating income and earnings per share each grew 20%, while the company returned nearly 80% of its cash flow to shareholders through dividends and repurchases. For fiscal 2027, Intuit reaffirmed guidance for companywide revenue growth of 9% to 10%. The business platform is expected to grow 13% to 14%, while the consumer platform is expected to grow 4% to 6%. TurboTax revenue is forecast to rise 2% to 3%, and Credit Karma revenue is expected to increase 11% to 13%. Intuit expects GAAP margin expansion of 440 basis points and non-GAAP margin expansion of 260 basis points in fiscal 2027. The company also declared a 15% dividend increase and said buybacks would continue to play a meaningful role in its capital-allocation strategy. Separately, Intuit said that effective Aug. 1, 2026, Mailchimp became a separate reportable segment and share-based compensation is no longer excluded from non-GAAP financial measures. Prior-period measures were revised to reflect those changes. About Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU). Intuit Inc is a financial technology and business software company that develops products designed to help consumers, small businesses and accounting professionals manage finances, tax obligations and customer relationships. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and serves customers primarily in the United States and Canada, with additional international availability for certain products. Its principal offerings include TurboTax, a tax preparation and filing platform; QuickBooks, which provides accounting, invoicing, payroll and payments tools for small businesses and self-employed individuals; Credit Karma, a personal finance platform offering credit monitoring and related financial products; and Mailchimp, an email marketing and customer engagement service for businesses. Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx. This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. Before you consider Intuit, you'll want to hear this. MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. 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