What is the difference between a subscription Quickbooks product and a non-subscription product?
I called customer service and they either don't know or won't tell. Or else they guy didn't understand me because he did have an accent and I had a hard time understanding him. So I haven't done this community thing before, but I'm hoping you can help me. In the company I used to work with, we always bought a new version of QB every several years and then we had a subscription to payroll. When the version we owned no longer had a payroll subscription available for it, then we'd buy a new one. The company I work with now has an annual QB subscription. But we just outsourced our payroll process, so we no longer need QB payroll. So I think we no longer need an annual subscription. We're really basic - no customer records, no inventory, no class tracking, no job costing or projects. We just pay bills, post deposits and run financial reports. So we don't need any complex upgrades or fancy features. I would like to buy a non-subscription product and just upgrade every few years, whenever what I've got gets non-compatible with Windows or is no longer supported by Intuit. Can anybody tell me if that can still be done?
Alternatively, if I just don't pay this year's subscription payment on what we've got, is that in effect the same thing? Will the product I have continue to function but I just will stop getting upgrades? Or will it cease to function since I have not paid the subscription?
I do not expect to need support, but if something blew up and ceased to function and we needed help recovering the data, would Intuit then refuse to talk to me, or could I then pay to have assistance?
Thanks for anybody who can help me.
