How to Find Your QuickBooks Desktop License & Product Number (No CAMPS Needed)

Published ✓ Verified ⏱️ 3 min read May 21, 2026 · by Ryan Bennett

You need your QuickBooks Desktop License Number and Product Number — to reinstall, reactivate, or move to a new PC — but you can’t find them. Common reason: an accountant or reseller registered the product for you, so it’s not in your Intuit account / CAMPS. Good news: if QuickBooks is installed and opens on the machine, the numbers are right there in the app — no CAMPS required.

The fastest way: press F2 (Product Information)

Open QuickBooks Desktop (you don’t need to open a company file).
Press F2 (or Ctrl + 1).
The Product Information window opens. At the top you’ll see:
- Product name + your release (e.g. Enterprise 24.0 R5),
- Product Number,
- License Number.
Write them down (a phone photo of that window is the easiest record).

This is the same registration data QuickBooks stores locally — F2 just displays it for you in plain sight. So you don’t need to dig into or decode any license files; the app reads them and shows the numbers directly. It works regardless of who originally registered the product.

On QuickBooks for Mac: open QuickBooks, then Help → Product Information.

If you can’t open QuickBooks

Pick whichever applies — these are all official Intuit routes:

CAMPS — if you do have the Intuit account it was bought under: sign in at camps.intuit.com → Products & Services → your product → Details shows the license & product number.
Original purchase confirmation email (digital purchase) or the product packaging (retail box/card).
Intuit License Look Up tool — if it was never registered or you’ve lost everything, use Intuit’s license-lookup at emaillicense.quickbooks.com to retrieve it by verifying your details.
Ask whoever registered it — the accountant/ProAdvisor or reseller who set it up has the numbers (and, for a reseller, should provide them — that’s part of a legitimate sale).
Contact Intuit with proof of purchase if the above don’t work.

After you have the numbers

Reinstalling or activation acting up? See reset QuickBooks registration & re-activate.
Error 3371 on install? QuickBooks Error 3371, Status Code 11118.

FAQ

The accountant registered it under their account — can I still get my number? Yes — press F2 on the machine where it’s installed (above); that doesn’t depend on whose Intuit account it’s under. If the PC is gone, the accountant/reseller who registered it can look it up in their account.

F2 shows the license but the last digits are masked. Some builds mask part of it on screen — the full number is on your purchase record/packaging, or via CAMPS/License Look Up. For reactivation on the same machine you usually don’t need to retype it at all (see the reset-and-reactivate guide).

Do I need my license to move to a new computer? Yes — that’s the supported path (reinstall + activate with the number, or the Migrator Tool). Recover the number with F2 before you decommission the old PC.

Sources: Intuit — Find QuickBooks Desktop and Point of Sale product and license info, Intuit — QuickBooks Desktop License Look Up