BJ Schaknowski, director of the Intuit Solution Provider program said that resellers can still purchase from Intuit, but that the company would prefer they buy from the distributors.  Handling those issues was taking too much time from its six customer service managers who will be free to work on other resellers, while there will be three more added to that staff. In a conversation with Intuit resellers, the only time anyone could remember a distributor being used for mid-market accounting software was when Computer Associates used its DistribuPro captive organization to sell Accpac, which the vendor now known as CA owned for many years. The reason, the talk continued, is the classic reason companies choose to use distributors or not--whether they sell enough units to make the use of distributors worthwhile. Most ERP packages aren't sold in such volume, but the last time QBES unit sales were reported, they were going out the door at the rate of around 14,000 a year. Intuit's Web site said 70,000 units have been sold since the product's debut.