Each year, Intuit implements service discontinuations commonly known as "product sunsetting." This year's sunset on May 31, 2022 applies to all related versions of the following products:
- QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2019
- QuickBooks Desktop Premier 2019 (general business, contractor, manufacturing & wholesale, nonprofit, professional services and retail)
- QuickBooks Desktop Accountant 2019
- QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions V19
After May 31, 2022, access to add-on services will be discontinued for these QuickBooks Desktop 2019 products. Your access to QuickBooks Desktop Payroll Services, Live Support, Online Backup, Online Banking and other services through QuickBooks Desktop 2019 software will be discontinued after May 31, 2022.
If you do not use any of the add-on services in QuickBooks Desktop 2018, the basic features and functions of your product should continue to work.
Please note that you will not have access to live technical support for any QuickBooks Desktop 2019 products or any other related Intuit services, which also means you will no longer receive critical security updates starting June 1, 2022.
So, if you receive any maintenance release or security updates prior to this date, you should install them.
Intuit
Furthermore, any service associated with an Intuit server, including license verification, may not be functional for the QuickBooks 2019 Desktop product-line. Intuit does not guarantee you can register products, or retrieve product-license-codes or product-ID-codes for these products after the sunset date.
In order to prevent problems associated with the loss of service from the sunset of these products or their associated service discontinuations, consider one of these three options:
- Upgrade to a fully supported version of QuickBooks Desktop (2020 or 2021), for which you have already acquired the necessary license(s)
- Migrate to an equivalent QuickBooks (Pro or Premier) Desktop "Plus" Subscription*, which gives you the most current version at all times
- Transition to QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Online Advanced, depending on your accounting requirements.
If other news impacting this planned product sunset or related matters arise prior to May 31, 2022, Insightful Accountant will keep you informed.
Footnotes & Disclosure:
Content adapted from Intuit's 'QuickBooks Desktop service discontinuation policy and upgrade information' product support website.
* - All QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Premier are available only as Subscription 'Plus' Versions for 2022. One-time (retail) versions of Pro and Premier were eliminated as of the 2022 product year. You can read more about 'Subscription-only' version of QuickBooks Pro and Premier for 2022 in this Insightful Accountant article.
Like what you're reading?
Subscribe to our FREE newsletter and we'll deliver content like this directly to your inbox.