QuickBooks retires 2006 versions

Those who do not use the QuickBooks payroll facility will find that the 2006 version of the software will continue running well into the future.  Any support and training that is needed can be supplied by QuickBooks Pro-Advisors such as myself.

For accountants who want to have multiple different software versions in their portfolio in order to handle client's data files, just make sure that each different version of the software is loaded into a separate directory. 

Chris Bales

As I understand it, Payroll will continue to operate with QB 2006 untill the end of the current Tax year (April 2011).  As no more Payroll updates will issued for QB2006, it will cease to operate at start of 2011-2012 Tax year. This information has come from talking to Intuit. To update will cost me £32 / month for QB2010+Payroll, as a result I am changing to another payroll package ("Payroll Manager" £55 per year) and continuing to use QB2006 for all other functions.

Intuit are pulling customers in and turning the screw tighter and tighter every year - Unfair and customers will vote with their feet as a result.

Richard

Ugly stuff. This is what happens when you let marketing people, as opposed to developers make these decisions. At the TurboCASH project we still happily offer our 2006 software and we offer our 2010 software, the choice is yours - all FREE.

Well look on the bright side if you do take up the offer, you do get 100 pounds as a discount.

I guess this is as good an example of why the Accounting market is now growing at under 5% per year and the open source products like TurboCASH Accounting are growing at 5 to 10 times that pace. With these growth rates, the guys in the marketing department have no choice but to force revenue out of the users.

Open source is an oncomming train either drive it or be hit by it.

-- "No one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me" - Thomas Jefferson

Richard wrote:

"As I understand it, Payroll will continue to operate with QB 2006 untill the end of the current Tax year (April 2011).  As no more Payroll updates will issued for QB2006, it will cease to operate at start of 2011-2012 Tax year. This information has come from talking to Intuit."

This is pretty much the opposite of what Intuit told me.  What's more, when I spoke with them I mentioned that they should check as I intended reporting their answer on this website.  What they said was that from 30 September it would not be possible to use any of the payroll features.  One would still be able to view entries that had already been input (in the same way that you can now view payroll reports from a machine with no payroll subscription).  Their stated reason for this was that after that date, QB2006 may not calculate payroll accurately.  Yes, really! 

As a special 'goodwill gesture' to me, they have agreed to continue to provide a payroll service for an additional month, to give me time to find an alternative.  No doubt I will be expected to pay for this.

When the change is put through, I intend to apply for a refund of the money I have paid so far this year for the payroll service, on the basis that it won't do the year end reports that it claimed to do. 

Intuit said this:

"The company responded: “We are fully aware that there is never an ideal time to make a payroll update and we started notifying our customers earlier this year to allow them several months to make the necessary changes. This decision has not been taken lightly and supporting our customers through the transition remains a key priority for Intuit in the UK."

What do they mean 'payroll update'?  I'm not sure what the right term would be for turning off their service half way through a tax year, but I'm pretty certain that 'payroll update' wouldn't be it.  In their emails to me they describe it as the payroll service being 'discontinued' - that's hardly the same thing.  Still, it's nice to know they are doing this in the interest of supporting their customers, eh?

and i say this as one of their strongest supporters

i wonder sometimes what the hell the UK Intuit is upto its a shame that they do this sort of thing

they need someone to help them see the wood from the trees

what particularly irks me about this is that 2006 was the latest QB version for many (those needing and using foreign currency) so its hardly legacy software

and why dont they bring back Quicken for gods sake or make it avaialble on line

and the reasons are as given in my answer above - 2008 could not be used by many users - so why are they now being penalised

The one headed "Result"? 

is it in tother

Thanks Carnmores.