LLuck2,
I have read so many shaggy dog stories from 'helpful' Intuit employees describing different ways to disable the Intuit login popup and the truth is they have no intention of disabling that 'feature'. They want their customers trapped in the middle of a spider web, stuck in that silky thread and trying desperately to avoid getting swallowed by the online cloud monster. They don't care that there are hundreds, if not thousands of us who are livid over being forced to login to Intuit, because they know they've got us by the snowballs. I have hundreds of active company files and the migration to another system is a nightmare I'm too old to contemplate. I was able to figure out a workaround (I'll post it again) that still works and is viable in our company. I have a single Intuit account that I use for every company file I manage and refuse to deal with 10-15 different Intuit user accounts getting mucked up in those files. If Intuit can show such blatant disregard for their customers, then I'm happy to hack away to avoid giving them what they want for as long as I can!
My workaround (originally posted July 05, 2021 at 1:49 PM):
The workaround that I developed was to create a new user role. If you don't use QB for payroll and usually grant your employees full access, you can create a new role which includes everything except for payroll related tasks. I typically exclude Employee Center, Employees & Payroll, and Time Tracking. Obviously this won't work if you use QB payroll, but it has been an acceptable workaround for my users. And perhaps if you do use QB payroll, this login feature might be an advantage. But we are strictly QuickBooks desktop and having this login forced upon us is inexcusable.
Fortunately my enterprising users found the workaround to close out of the Intuit Account popup, which is now infecting my user accounts in addition to the admin account (and yes, I meant to use the word 'infect' because anything that slows down my users is toxic). For those of you who couldn't get this to work, this is how we do it - Right-click anywhere in the dark blue bar on the Intuit Account popup and chose Close from the dropdown. **NOTE** - you won't see the typical icons in the upper right corner on this popup - it's a solid dark blue bar all the way across the popup. After you select close, you'll get another popup - Are you sure you want to cancel signing in to your Intuit account? - Close this box by using the X in the upper right corner. This should clear the login popup and allow users to work.
When this workaround inevitably fails, I'll find another one. All I have to do is string together 5 more years of workarounds until I'm retired!
