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The July 31 QuickBooks Desktop Deadline Looms

Written by Gary DeHart | Jul 9, 2024 6:04:51 PM

Intuit announced on February 1, 2024 that it would no longer sell new subscriptions to several QuickBooks Desktop products after July 31, 2024 (Intuit has since extended the deadline to September 30, 2024.    Since then there have been other announcements and adjustments to the various product offerings and availabilities and much speculation from within the profession about "what to do next" for clients who use desktop.  

Well, that is only 22 days away (as of the publication date of this post.  Are you ready?

Never fear!  Murph has been on top of the situation and has worked incredibly hard to help clarify what your options are and has spent countless hours evaluating a variety of APPS on the market that he feels are most likely able to meet the needs of QB Desktop Pro/Premier users.   In his research, which is compiled and presented in a "Blue Paper" exclusively for our Premium Content members, he takes a look at QB Desktop Pro, QB Simple Start, Sage 50 Pro, FreshBooks Lite, Zoho Books Standard, Wave Pro, Patriot Basic, Kashoo Acounting and Xero Growing and provides a comparison charts for 48 key points/functions for each.

He takes the evaluation further and gives you the Pros and Cons of each, along with a comparison factor list and a direct comparison "score" for each relative to QB Desktop Pro.