Quickbooks Desktop Is Being Retired and Ongoing Support Will End!
Intuit first released QuickBooks Desktop (QBD or Desktop) in 1983. Since then, tens of thousands of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have come to rely on QBD every day to manage their books and accounting needs. However, QuickBooks Desktop will be retired soon, and ongoing support will be sunsetting.
It’s difficult to get an exact date for when this momentous change will take effect. It’s been reported that it could be as early as midnight on January 31st, 2023. Other reports say, “after May 31st, 2023, with no more critical security updates starting on June 1, 2023,” and it is dependent upon the exact version of QuickBooks Desktop.
The point is QuickBooks Desktop and any ongoing support are going to end. And it’s going to end SOON! Intuit has been communicating with its current Desktop client users, but many of its clients have not been responsive.
When other extremely popular products and services have been retired in the past, things have gotten “messy” to say the least. People tend to wait until the very last minute to make other arrangements and this always leads to problems for businesses who can’t afford the disruption.
Do not wait!
QuickBooks Desktop users that have procrastinated or ignored various communications and calls to action will all try to leave Desktop at the same time. This will inevitably create a log jam of businesses needing to get properly set up on QuickBooks Online (QBO or Online) in a hurry. This will trigger all sorts of pain with the tens of thousands of SMBs that will need help migrating their data from QBD to the upgraded QBO option. The sooner you make arrangements to migrate from Desktop to Online, the better.
Experienced QuickBooks Solutions Providers (QSPs) can make the necessary transition from QBD to QBO seamless.
When the Online version was first introduced by Intuit several years ago, it was NOT the tool that many hoped it would be. Initially, QBO wasn’t as user-friendly, nor did it have all the capabilities that its dedicated Desktop devotees had come to expect. Since then, as the result of customer feedback and numerous upgrades and new releases, QuickBooks Online’s functionality is better and more comprehensive than anything previously available through the old Desktop versions. So, if you have not looked at the Online offering recently, now is the time. QBO has all the capabilities and functionality that successful SMBs need to manage their business more efficiently and profitably than ever before.
So, do yourself, your business, and your clients a favor and partner with a QuickBooks Solutions Provider with a long history of working with Intuit and deep experience in helping companies migrate from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online.
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Geoff Suval is a senior cost and profit consultant at Xceleran Software, Inc. with over 25 years of experience. For your financial consultation needs, reach out to Geoff Suval at gsuval@xceleran.com.
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