Does Intuit plan to offer a discounted subscription to allow for multiple company files?
I agree that it was a very nasty surprise to find out that my QuickBooks Pro 2018 with 3 separate company files would now require 3 separate QuickBooks Online subscriptions. I can make do with QBO Simple Start for each but that means I'm paying $90/mo or $1,080/yr for QBO for my 3 companies. If I upgraded the software each year, it only cost me $549/yr or so and I could have 3 companies (or as many as I like) for that price. And I would only upgrade every 2 years, so QBO now means 4x the cost.
I see that there is going to be no new QB Pro Plus Desktop subscriptions after July 2024. So now I have to decide if I want to purchase QB Pro Plus Desktop 2023 for $649 per year, pay for 3 QuickBooks Online Simple Start subscriptions at $1,080/yr total, or move to an entirely new platform.
It would be SO helpful if Intuit gave us some options for multiple company files:
- Provide additional companies at no cost within any plan (ie: sell each subscriptions based only on the number of simultaneous users)
- Provide additional companies at a fixed smaller cost within any plan (eg: each additional company only costs another 25% or 50% of the regular plan price)
- Provide increasingly larger number of additional companies with each higher-level QuickBooks Online plan (eg: 1 company for Simple Start, 3 for Essentials, 10 for Plus, unlimited for Advanced)
Can we make some kind of a deal?
Otherwise, you are just going to drive business owners like myself to the competition. I have used QuickBooks since the early 2000's, so it will be hard to move on. But the price gouging by first requiring annual subscriptions to maintain access to my own data and then discontinuing the desktop version and forcing online only for each and every company file is just obscene.
