How to Change the Quickbooks Password?

However, changing QuickBooks password every week also ensures that only the authorized users can access the QuickBooks data; but, if you’re thinking how you can remember the QuickBooks password that you change so frequently then, in this case, what you can do is use your QuickBooks Desktop Accountant, Enterprise Accountant or QuickBooks File Manager to keep track of your passwords for each QuickBooks file.

Now, moving further, there’s one more important aspect to it, which you need to keep in mind and that is to meet the requirement for setting the complex password for the QuickBooks account. So, to help you with that also, we’ve mentioned the “Requirement for complex Passwords” and they are as follows:

• Length of the password should be from 8 to 16 characters

• Password must contain at least 1 number from 0 to 9

• There should be ‘No spaces’ in password

• Password at least contain 1 uppercase character from ‘A to Z’ plus all upper case characters in the Latin-1 Supplement set

• Password must have at least 1 lowercase character from ‘a-z’ plus all lower case characters in the Latin-1 Supplement set

• It should also contain at least 1 special character from these: (! " # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . /  @ [ \ ] ^ | {} : ; < = > ? ~)

• And, Password cannot contain the username (case-sensitive) and vice versa.

So, as you now have realized that updating the login information periodically, only help to keep your account safe for any unethical access; let’s begin with the process of changing QuickBooks password with the below-mentioned steps: