Keep in mind that some features of the one-time-purchase 2021 product will be retired in just three years (for example, see QuickBooks 2018 Discontinuation Scheduled). One-time purchases of the 2021 version of QuickBooks Pro and Premier will be available for purchase through December 10, 2021, and only through Intuit direct sales as well as registered Intuit dealers/partners. QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2021 will still be available for a limited time.This is the “QuickBooks Pro Plus” and “QuickBooks Premier Plus” products that have been available for many years now. It will only be available on a yearly subscription basis. You won’t be able to buy the (to be released soon) QuickBooks Desktop 2022 product as a “one time” product that you can use forever (with restrictions after support is retired). QuickBooks Pro and Premier will only be sold as a subscription.Here’s what has been announced by Intuit, as I understand it: Unfortunately, the Accountex folks have deleted the Accountex Report blog and all 400 of the articles I wrote for them, so you’ll just have to trust me on this one. In February 2017 I wrote an article in the Accountex Report blog titled Is QuickBooks Desktop Dead, where I stated that I expected Intuit to move QuickBooks Desktop to a subscription-only model. This is something that I predicted would occur, although it came about a bit later than I expected. To get any QuickBooks Desktop product you will have to pay for an annual subscription.

It should be no surprise that Intuit announced that QuickBooks Desktop will be subscription only by the end of this year.

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