radically_simple_accounting
Level 3

Banking

QB Online needs to add a export and import list feature so that customers can start a new database.

 

Granted my niche is as a fixer but lots of customers are at the point where they have enough crap in their databases that they want to start a new database. Or they have other reasons for wanting to start a new database. 

 

I did this once for a client who had so much crap that I absolutely 100% had to create a new databse to move him forward. I wanted some of his lists moved over so an excellent VIP tech at Intuit talked me through moving QB Online List Data to QB Desktop then back to a QB Online database. But that export from QB Onine to QB Desktop no longer works. Thanks to above posters I see that one has to pay $300 to get Transaction Pro Importer and learn enough of the software to do this once. That's prohibitive for most of Intuit's customers. 

 

I remember when Intuit added the export and import lists to Desktop. People's data sets were hitting the wall, report creation was so slow that it was either give them a way to stay with QB Desktop or they'll find new software. It was an awesome feature because if I can move your lists, we're almost there. Time to add that utility to QB Online and keep customers happy there.