As a company we've used QB since 2002 in various guises and as a small e commerce business with around 1000 transactions a month we soon outgrew the std QuickBooks 2004 desktop due to the company file only accepting circa 14,000 entries.
But then QB 2013 came out with an open database and we can now run around 4 years of accounts without problem before we need to start a new company file as it gets a bit slow - Hallelujah this was amazing and still is today - July 2022.
We got an e mail from our IT guys this am, saying check that QB2013 will still run after Jan 2023, which frightened the &H%T out of us. We've looked at QB online and it doesn't work for us as you don't do builds or very good stock control. As a manufacturing company who sells on-line this is essential. QB doesn't seem to have grasped this concept that people in the UK still make things so builds are vitally important. If we sold say flowers or ran a window cleaning service this would be fine. Making products from other products using builds is perfect. Sadly QB online can't / won't do this. so its pretty useless to us unless we open a window cleaning florist shop online :)
So what I'm reading in these threads is if you have a standalone program it will work fine after Jan 31st 2023.
If you have had a subscription program you are totally screwed.
We did investigate QB online in 2021, to see what it could do (as above) and it wasn't great at all and pretty slow too.
We looked at Xero and they were rubbish and just didn't want to talk to anyone ever - Real awful company.
Sage wanted £20K before they even got out of bed to talk with us. 20K really ??
So if its OK with everyone we will stick to what we know and what works and what we paid fairly decent money for in 2013.
QB enterprise 2013 is great - go find a legacy copy, you wont regret it.
Steve Dalloway - Byretech Ltd UK
