The numbers marked a return to more easily compared set up figures—last year reflected a significant impact of the decision to recognize all revenue ratably, which pushed revenue to this future. Along with this, red-hot QuickBooks Online closed the fiscal year with 1,513,000 subscribers, a rise of 41 percent over the prior year-end. Intuit says it will add about 100,000 QBO subscribers during the current quarter and will hit 2 million by the end of the current fiscal year. CEO Brad Smith sees even more opportunity ahead. "We believe have more opportunity ahead of us with QBO outside the United States," he said during this week's earnings webcast. Smith admitted international sales have gone more slowly than he would like. Earlier this year, EVP Dan Wernikoff described part of the problem this way: "We launched with not completely compliant solutions." Even with that, there were 285,000 subscriptions outside the U.S., up 45 percent. Not only did QBO subscriptions soar, but Intuit also sold 956,000 desktop QB units in 2016, a increase of 8.4 percent from 882,000 in 2015. Smith said that reflected users re-upping after the three-year product cycle and noted that the company plans a long life for the desktop software. Overall, Intuit claimed 2,795,000 paying QB customers as of July 31, up 22.8 percent from 2,276,000 million the prior year.