Day by day, every company moves its business activities digitally. Therefore, they are upgrading their accounting system and automating it through a trusted accounting platform, QuickBooks. You can access QuickBooks Online through a browser and QuickBooks Desktop through your System. So they are buying the QuickBooks package from Intuit or local retailers, where a QuickBooks Desktop license and access to some pro features are available.
This license was placed in your system C drive under the qbregistration.dat file, which helps to open QuickBooks. If the file is broken, then you need to re-create the qbregistration.dat file. In this blog, we understand the way to create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file and its reason in detail.
What is the qbregistration.dat file?
The qbregistration.dat file is also called as registration file. That is a storage area, placed on your desktop C drive > Program Data folder > Common Files folder > Intuit folder > QuickBooks folder. Their it stores the QuickBooks license and your product information. In any case, if the qbregistration.dat file is removed, deleted, or corrupted, QuickBooks will not open or work. You need to re-create the qbregistration.dat file to open QuickBooks and fix the error.
How to Locate Your Product and License Numbers?
To locate your product and license number, you need to log in to my account to detect the license numbers of all your QuickBooks products. Below, we are providing a complete procedure to locate Product and License information.
- For a downloaded product purchased online or from a sales agent, check your email to detect the confirmation email that is sent from Intuit’s QuickBooks.
- If you bought QuickBooks on a CD, try to find the brightly coloured stickers, which are basically placed on the original CD Envelope.
- Proadvisors, you can also find your installation code on the ProAdvisor software and licenses page.
- Check the fulfillment email that you received with the license and product number for the latest version of Intuit’s QuickBooks.
If you have already completed the registration process for QuickBooks Software. You can find your license number by the license and key code lookup tool. If your license is blended with the proadviser software package, then this tool will not work.
If you haven’t registered your product, then you can take the experts’ help by contacting them, but don’t forget to arrange all the required proof of purchase.
- You buy QuickBooks directly from Intuit, then find your order number from the Intuit packing slip and give it to Intuit customer service, and match this order number from the order status page.
- If you buy QuickBooks from a local retailer, then before calling the customer service, send the purchase details to QBG-CSGroup@intuit.com with,
- Your company name
- Your contact information
- Your store sales receipts and bills
- Box bottom where the UPC barcode is clearly visible
- CD Holder where the license number should be visible
- The front of the actual program CD
Steps Create or Re-create the qbregistration.dat file
Now we are discussing the way to create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file. You just need to follow the steps properly to re-create the registration file and fix the QuickBooks errors.
- First, you need to find the QuickBooks Folder where the qbregistration.dat file was placed. Try to search all your hidden files and folders if you are unable to find the listed folders.
- Path: C:\ProgramData\Common Files\Intuit\QuickBooks
- If qbregistration.dat is already available on your computer, change that file name to qbregistration.old.
- Now open the notepad.
- Then, copy the code which is written below and paste it into Notepad:
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<QBREG><QUICKBOOKSREGISTRATION>
<VERSION number=“xx.x”>
<FLAVOR name=“version”>
<VersionNumber></VersionNumber><InstallNumber></InstallNumber><SerialNumber>
</SerialNumber><RegistrationNumber></RegistrationNumber><LA>YES</LA>
<InstallID>000-000</InstallID><LicenseNumber>0000-0000-0000-000</LicenseNumbe>
<QBMode1></QBMode1><QBMode2></QBMode2><QBMode>000073adbf3f</QBMode><ActivatedProduct>
</ActivatedProduct><NFVN></NFVN><NFLN></NFLN><NFID></NFID>
</FLAVOR>
</VERSION></QUICKBOOKSREGISTRATION></QBREG>
- After pasting the code in Notepad, replace the Bold text accordingly. Below is the table of:
Replacing details for the bold text xx.x
| If you are using | Replace with |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2023 | 33.0 |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2022 | 32.0 |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2021 | 31.0 |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2020 | 30.0 |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2019 | 29.0 |
| QuickBooks Desktop 2018 | 28.0 |
Replacing details for the bold text version
| If you have | Replace with |
| QuickBooks Pro | Pro |
| QuickBooks Premier (not Accountant Edition) | SuperPro |
| QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition | Accountant |
| QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions (not Accountant Edition) | Bel |
| QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Accountant Edition | Belacct |
Conclusion
We hope this article will help to understand how to create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file in detail. We are trying to describe all the things easily. You just need to follow the given steps to solve QBregistration.dat file issues and reopen your QuickBooks and continue your accounting without any problem.