If you upgrade your qbooks desktop, you are upgrading to a subscription based plan and will no longer be able to use your normal desktop. And if you don't pay your yearly fee, you will lose access to your data. Make sure to print hard copies of your data... Better yet, keep your qbooks desktop and don't upgrade. You won't get payroll support unless you do. Qbooks is discontinuing the payroll support for single license users and forcing the product to a subscription based format...