Intuit has announced that beginning May 31, 2019, access to Intuit add-on services will be discontinued for all QuickBooks® 2016 Desktop products. Since we are in tax season it is a great time to purchase an upgrade to your software; as a number of stores have QuickBooks 2019 on sale. Check your local box stores; as well as Amazon and other online retailers. If you need to upgrade to QuickBooks Enterprise; please contact us for the best pricing.
What does this mean to QuickBooks 2016 users?
1. Most important, for basic accounting functionality, QuickBooks® 2016 will continue to work. However, any Intuit services that depend on an Intuit server, will no longer be functional. The main feature that most of our clients use is the bank feeds. The time saved in downloading your bank and credit card transactions into QuickBooks for reconciling is worth the price of the upgrade alone every three years.
2. Intuit will no longer be offering technical support for QuickBooks 2016.
3.There will no longer be any security updates or application patches for QuickBooks 2016. If you save customer credit card information, or process payroll within QuickBooks you really want to be installing the latest security updates.
NOTE: It is not recommended to upgrade a QuickBooks file by 2 or more versions at one time; especially if the file is large or you are using the inventory or payroll features. A lot changes in the back-end each year; so it’s important to take some precautions when upgrading several versions at once. Contact us today for assistance in upgrading the file successfully.
Courtesy of Intuit®, the following chart describes this policy
For more detailed information, please visit QuickBooks Desktop service discontinuation (Disco) policy and upgrade information page on Intuit’s website.