Intuit Quickbooks Desktop Users - Important activation info

* @OldMainframeGuy 's recent post made me think of this, and as many people as possible should be aware of it.

Quickbooks Desktop is going away, they are pushing all of their users who arent enterprise to Quickbooks online. They are currently actively refusing to send users activation codes and blocking activation for all copies of Quickbooks Desktop that are older than 1 year.

What does this mean?

• If you have Quickbooks Desktop 2023 or older and need a new HDD you will lose your copy of quickbooks on that machine

The only way to resolve the issue would be to convert your entire business over to cloud or you can just forget having that installation altogether. Intuit can still activate these copies of desktop, however they refuse to. (I know this because they told me personally, and I was able to get a code, but it was like the Tommy Boy wing scene, lol, I switched to being nice mid rant and it somehow worked and the rep admitted the refusal is to push to cloud and gave me a code but wasnt sure if it would work, it did)

What can you do?

• While your copy of Quickbooks Desktop is still supported, in the top menu bar of the Quickbooks Desktop window Click "Help>About Intuit Desktop XXXXX" then press CTRL+ALT+R+P to bring up the phone activation window (This will not effect an activated product but it will still offer phone codes)
• Call the number on the screen and tell Intuit you are installing Quickbooks Desktop on a non-internet connected machine and give them your phone codes from the about window, they will give you an activation code in return
• Store the activation code somewhere safe, this code will allow you to activate your Quickbooks Desktop product indefinitely without the help of Intuit.

If you have an older copy of Quickbooks you can still update to 2024 to do the above process and get an activation code, it is still under support, but time is running out

I hope this helps some users avoid being pressured into the could offering. Anyone supporting small businesses should do this for their clients as a safety net ASAP.

Phone support would be better then Online Help.. Which I spent 4 hours one day, as my Life Time License was due to expire 8 Months after purchase...

It should give a phone number on that screen if you disconnect from the internet before opening the application, i think

If not you can still call their support line (look up on their official site) anyway if youre within the year and they should give it to you

I'm still using my free version of Microsoft Money from 2005!

I just cancelled mine last week. Been using it forever, but it's gone from like $49.95 to $69.95 to $99.95 and now they want $108.77 for another year!! No thanks.