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Seems like I remember words something to the affect of, 'No man left behind.' Well, apparently, that doesn't apply to Mac users of QuickBooks.
So, as they say, 'The party is over.'
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In an announcement by Rich Preece, VP of the Accountant Segment of Intuit's Small Business Group, the company has begun issuing notices that it will not be releasing any new versions of QuickBooks Desktop for Mac.
While QuickBooks Desktop for Mac 2016 will be the last version available, the product will continue to be supported by Intuit until May 31, 2019.
Intuit also advises that this notification has no affect in regard to the the 2018 Windows versions of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Premier.
While QuickBooks ProAdvisors, Intuit Re-sellers and accountant partners are being advised of these developments, QuickBooks Desktop for Mac small business customers will receive a separate notification of this news in the coming weeks.
Of course Intuit is encouraging users of the QB for Mac product to migrate to QuickBooks Online.
While many former QB for Mac users were quick to migrate to the cloud once Intuit offered the Mac App for QuickBooks (online), time will only tell how Mac loyalists respond to this news.
If you are a QuickBooks for Mac user, or a ProAdvisor, bookkeeper or accountant who supports QB-Mac, let's hear from you. Post your comments below.
As happens every year about now, Intuit has announced that they are discontinuing an older version of QuickBooks. If you are using QuickBooks 2015 (Windows and Mac) then you won’t be able to use certain services and features after May 31, 2018. I won’t address why they do it, or if I think it is a good practice, I’ll just discuss what the impact will be on your business.
For details beyond what I provide here see this Intuit support document on Intuit’s disco (discontinuation) policy.
What this means is that for the QuickBooks 2015 desktop products:
This applies to the following products:
If loss of any of these services are a problem for your business, you can upgrade to a more current version to continue getting support.
Services Discontinued for QuickBooks Pro, Premier, Enterprise and Mac 2015
After May 31, 2018, you will no longer be able to use the following services if you are using one of the 2015 products (note that not all of these were available to Mac users):
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Those are the services that Intuit specifically mentions, but I believe that there are other services not listed that will no longer work after the discontinuation date. Here’s list of the other services that I expect will not be provided for QuickBooks 2015 after the disco date, based on what we’ve seen in prior years:
Third party add-on products should not be directly affected by this – but you should check with your vendor to see what their policy is.
What Should You Do?
If you are using QuickBooks, the standard answer is, “Now is the time to upgrade.”
There are four areas of concern when upgrading:
HOWEVER – keep in mind that your basic QuickBooks 2015 product will continue to work for your basic business needs as long as you aren’t relying on the services I listed.
If you are a QuickBooks consultant, you need to check with your clients so that they understand what will be changing in May. Don’t let them be surprised when things stop working – evaluate their needs and see if they will lose anything crucial to their operation. Keep in mind that sometimes upgrading to a new release takes a bit of time and effort. You want to make plans so that this can be done in an orderly fashion, rather than as a last-minute scramble when they find that things aren’t working right.
My recommendation would be to talk to clients about this now, to prepare them for the changes. From what I can see, there is no major reason to not upgrade to QuickBooks 2018 at this time. Don’t wait until May – if you run into any conversion problems (which can happen), you don’t want to have to deal with that in a hurry, as things like credit card processing stop working.
There are alternatives, of course:
A special note for QuickBooks for Mac users, though. Find another product, don’t upgrade to QuickBooks for Mac. Intuit will be no longer be developing QuickBooks forMac, so I wouldn’t upgrade to the currently supported version.
What Do I Think?Quickbooks Pro For Mac
Every year, when Intuit sunsets an older version of QuickBooks, we hear a great outcry over the practice. “How can Intuit disable the product that we bought?!”
Ms paint equivalent for mac. I do have some sympathy for what Intuit is doing, but I don’t entirely agree with the policy when you look at the bigger picture.
While I do believe that it is appropriate for Intuit to discontinue support for older products, particularly with features that require an online services of some sort, I also believe that a software provider should make it relatively simple to upgrade your product to the latest version. This is where I think the Intuit policy fails. If you are using the older product and you must upgrade to the current product so that you can continue to use these services, Intuit should provide a low-cost upgrade path. I think that a reasonable upgrade pricing plan would resolve a lot of issues as far as I’m concerned. But I just don’t see Intuit doing that.
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