I have been recommending Quickbooks to my CPA firm clients for decades. It looks like I need to start researching other solutions. The desktop version with payroll worked very well, without being held hostage to losing everything to an annual fee. I also have clients using the online version, which I cannot recommend to anyone.

Even my professional Intuit products do not threaten the use of my prior year data and apps if I do not renew every year. I too urge Intuit to bring back the single user desktop version with payroll support. If not, I will have to suspect that my professional software is also in danger of this kind of hostage taking by Intuit.