Just chiming in to say I agree!  Just yesterday I got a flyer in the mail promoting the online version and the ad pops up constantly while using Desktop.  I know the only advantage online brings goes to Quickbooks/Inuit, not me, the customer.  I will continue to reiterate to them that with 3 employees and no direct deposit, invoicing, inventory tracking, I do NOT need all that I pay for.   For 2023, I paid $1,310.12 to use Quickbooks to record payments, pay employees by check and calculate tax payments and forms.   In November the cost per employee (another recent add on cost) is now at $19.13 (for 3 people).   This fee started in the spring of 2022 and has gone up twice.   Is this the tiered system?  We are all charged for a payroll subscription and Quickbooks differentiates us by how many employees?    How about that payroll sub be tiered by number of employees and whether we use direct deposit?  Frustrating but here we are all suffering with it and they know it.  It is not something the average user wants to mess around with to avoid disruption.