There's genuinely no way to "patch" that without a rewrite costing millions of dollars. They license this through microsoft (common practice). Let's give an example of your suggestion of them patching with maintenance fees completely crumbling immediately. It's just not feasible to maintain all products, even from a security perspective.Īgain, I don't think you know much of anything about data security. If they didn't you'd see people using quicken 98, still. Literally every software and hardware vendor on the planet eventually stops patching certain products. I am speaking purely from a data security standpoint. I didn't say anything about "new and improved". I am already looking into replacement systems In a nutshell - you are being forced to switch to an inferior product that will cost you $100s more every year. Why does the word "Bill To" appear in the address area? That takes up room where the address needs to appear in the window of the envelope. BUT - The word "Bill To" appears in the address area. So after screwing around on online tutorials you find out how toy around with margins to get that to work. SLOWĤ) All of the invoice templates in the online version - NONE OF THEM FIT A WINDOW ENVELOPE!!! That is actually unbelievable! And knowing what tab is what is not necessarily evident, so you will have to click on the tabs to see which one is what. You will need to have several tabs opened at the same time. Doing that before was very easy and quick. You will always have the boneheads that pay you without writing your invoice#. We "upgraded" (not) to the online version just a few days ago.ġ) This is a forced change to an inferior product, that will cost you more.Ģ) Daily tasks will now take you longer to do.ģ) Because it is browser based, it takes longer to switch between things you want to do - if possible at all.įor instance, entering payments. Many thanks for the community's thoughts. I see no benefits to paying a lot of money for a newer desktop product when the current product meets my needs, and many problems with moving to Quicken's online, subscription model: security of my data on quicken's servers, loss of control of my own data, and the need to pay forever to keep my data accessible.Īm I missing important downsides to staying with my fully, functional 3 year old version that should cause me to consider upgrading to a newer desktop product or paying for a online subscription? I presume that Quicken will not be able to reach down from the cloud and prevent my Quickbooks Pro desktop software from running after a certain date. I'm not using any of the services that Quicken says I will no longer be able to use after the discontinuation date. Most important, my QB files are safe on my own locked-down NAS, and get automatically backed up to the cloud nightly in end-to-end encrypted fashion.Īccordingly, the email I received today from Quicken, informing me that my software will be "discontinued" was not welcome news. I have no vendors or employees, and do not use it to interact with my bank. My current QB desktop product does everything I want - it keeps my customers' and jobs' accounts, creates simple reports for estimated tax payments, notifies me of overdue bills, and does simple time tracking. I keep track of my self-employed, 1 person consulting business with QB2020 Desktop Pro, and before 2020 I used QB 2010.
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