Can anyone help please!!!!!!!

I created a proposal. Now I need to download into pdf.

I click preview. I click pdf.

Then i need the download icon. There isn’t one. File, print isn’t there either.

SOS I’m losing my mind

I am working with a nonprofit client and their finance person's computer crashed and needed to be replaced. They have migrated to QBO already, but were still using Desktop for historical data.

The subscription for their desktop license lapsed (because of moving to Online) but now it won't activate. They just need it for read-only access until late October, early November at the latest. How can I get it activated again just for the read-only access?

Joe

A client approached me asking about moving everything to an online version of QuickBooks. They currently run QuickBooks Enterprise Manufacturing and Wholesale 23.

I work in the Microsoft ERP space and have limited QuickBooks knowledge, but what are their options to get off of on-prem, but keep QuickBooks? Biggest things they use are the quote to order to pick/pack/ship to invoice process, assemblies in inventory and some kind of integration between ACT and QuickBooks.

Is there a migration path for their version to an equivalent online version? Would there be any serious changes to how they use it now with the online version?

Thank you everyone.

Joe

TLDR: Migration company imported Sage data, but I asked them to purge it because I wasn’t ready to switch to QBO. Now they want me to buy another QBO account because they are afraid that if we purge, we won’t have a clean migration and this could cause future issues. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a known issue?

Over the past month, I’ve been working with a company called Fourlane to migrate our Sage data into QBO. Our contract is for support services so they were not legally contracted to complete the migration (I probably should not have agreed to this…). The first time they attempted the migration, they said that the file was not properly importing and recommended paying for additional services (starting at $3k) to work with another team on the import. I decided to look into other options and did the Dataswitcher myself. It appeared as if everything properly imported, but I wasn’t quite ready to start using QBO daily; I purged the data.

Since we are already paying a company to manage the migration and I had doubts about my ability to identify a successful migration, I then decided to go back to Fourlane and share my success with them and ask them to try again. Well surprise, they successfully imported the data the second time around. However, again, due to how our bookkeeping is set up, I wasn’t ready to commit to the new system just yet because I’m taking over bookkeeping and our bookkeeper (my mom) had done work in Sage while Fourlane was working on the import. I told Fourlane to purge again and we would go live with QBO when the bookkeeper is out of town this week.

They started the migration Friday, and they are now saying that they don’t recommend purging the old data because it could cause potential future issues. They want me to buy another account so that we have a “clean migration”. Has anyone heard of not having a clean purge? After they wanted me to pay extra for the migration, my a bit suspicious of their recommendations.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to find videos online about how to use QB Desktop in order to satisfy NonProfit Reporting Requirements but I am a little stuck

As of right now, I’m using the [Class] feature to designate restricted v unrestricted funds so that when I run the Statement of Financial Income and Expenses, I have those 2 columns split nicely

I’m using the [Jobs] feature to separate different fundraising events so I can run a P&L by Job for each event

So now I’m trying to figure out how to properly get the Statement of Functional Expense going…

I was going to use the [Item] feature for this one and categorize each type of expense by an Item but honestly, using the Item tab when writing a check instead of the Expense tab feels SO clunky and feels like I’m forcing QB to fit a round peg into a square hole. It technically works but idk, I’m questioning this method…

Does anyone have any opinions on setting up NonProfits on QB Desktop, using the class,job, and item features to set up the nonprofit reports?

Hi,

Our small services firm has used Freshbooks for many years and QBO for financial management.

We process about 25 recurring monthly invoices and 15-20 one-offs a month.

I’m finally looking into switching our invoicing to QBO as well and it seems to have all the features we need.

Primarily:
\- Online ACH and CC payments
\- Recurring invoices
\- Recurring charges to saved CCs
\- Reminders via email on due dates

Any one have any words of wisdom or “gotchas” switching over to using QBO for invoicing?

Thanks in advance!

Joe

Trying to help out a family friend. Long story short I think they were duped into a fraudulent qb desktop renewal that changed their license #. When their real license came up for expiration a few months later, they realized the issue. Calling into qb now hits a brick wall because the license
With QB doesn’t match the name on the Qb end.

I think we need to call and give the business name and EIN, see if they can track down our real/authentic license, and go from there.

Any thoughts/experiences?

Canceling that card sure was easier than trying to get someone on the phone. I'm out after 30 years. I feel free!

I ran a general ledger for an account and clicked on filter for “Account is Prepaid” It says no results. Then I pulled up a balance sheet and then clicked on “Prepaids” and there are several transactions. Am I running this report wrong?

https://xcelbooks.com

I couldn’t find anything searching Reddit. It’s an accounting package built onto Excel and looks pretty good. It gets good reviews and is really cheap. I’m not sure yet if it’ll let you email invoices, how it downloads transactions or if it lets you process payments.

My jaw is on the floor, I am so impressed by the current capabilities of ai tools, particularly Lovable.dev

I have been banging my head against the wall for weeks coming up with a super complex process of custom fields and custom forms, Google Sheets and other nonsense.. Projects on QBO works well for my landscaping clients but for general contractors and architecture firms, who bid jobs, QuickBooks lack of UI to display helpful information for business owners to make real decisions is shocking and disappointing.

I literally vibe coded what I think to be a great solution in less than 10 hours, it’s fully connected to QuickBooks API and should be available on the app marketplace by end of next week. So many other SaaS products are focused on the subcontractors or the jobs themselves, none of them could function the way I wanted it to. Premier technically could but it was such a massive software. I created Pulse Pro as an answer to the problem my clients express, “I have this information in my head, I don’t know how to get it to you without printing and looking at dozens of reports”. The main tech here is focusing on linking anticipated transactions during the new project intake process and utilizing that logic to make decisions during the progress of the job.

If you’re interested to check it out I’d love your feedback, I made this video introduction for a quick overview.

Does anyone know of any financially reasonable alternatives to QuickBooks Statement Writer?

I was doing some cleanup and I got an error message when trying to load the Expenses screen:

\> PLT-8000 Validation error of type FieldUndefined: Field projectId is undefined

I restarted QBO (I use the desktop app) and the error went away, but now a new "K1 Reference Number" field has appeared when creating/editing an Expense (in both desktop and web).

I'm a sole proprietor, I don't use Schedule K-1, so how do I get rid of this field?

UPDATE: I notified Intuit and they replied saying they have addressed the issue. The K1 field has indeed been removed.

I have the mobile app and I use it to track my mileage doing deliveries for my small business. But, I only want to manually track trips. Every single time I track a trip auto tracking enables after I’m done and starts tracking every single drive until I disable. It’s really getting super frustrating, does anyone have a tip or trick to get it to stop enabling the auto tracking every single time I complete a trip?

Hello,
I am attempting to set a user up to send emails out from Quickbooks Enterprise. I went through the usual process for adding a user in the Send Forms menu and had the user input their email credentials and it looked like it completed. However, when the user attempts to send out an invoice, they see this message. When I click the Setup button in the screenshot, it takes me back to the Send Forms menu except there is nothing populated. When I am logged in, I can see the two other users that should be in that list.

I'm not sure where to go from here to troubleshoot. I've always added people in the Send Forms menu and have never had an issue.

Got an email about my pending renewal for QuickBooks Desktop and Enhanced Payroll for Accountants. It's going to cost me $4399!!!! For ONE lousy year!

October 1, 2026

• QuickBooks Desktop Accountant, ProAdvisor Premier Bundle, and ProAdvisor Enterprise Bundle for all subscriptions

October 1, 2026

• Enhanced Payroll for Accountants annual subscriptions renewing after October 1, 2026

For users with QB Pro Plus:

So after using Quickbooks all morning, I come back to find all of my bank information and credit card details just gone and this is what has been left in their place in the 'Bank Accounts' Widget. Has this happened to anyone else today?

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how this online accounting experience just keeps getting more difficult and frustrating every single day.

Anyone else having issues connecting today? I have the BankofAmerica-QBDT which is supposedly the newest setting.