If you run QuickBooks Desktop, you have probably noticed the changes. Intuit stopped selling new Pro Plus, Premier Plus and Mac Plus subscriptions to US customers after September 30, 2024, and renewal prices rose again in 2026. Existing subscribers can still renew, and Enterprise is still sold, but many owners are asking the same question: is it time to move, and to what?
What to look for in a QuickBooks alternative
- Your history comes with you.
You need customers, vendors, items, the chart of accounts and years of transactions, not a blank start. - Real double-entry accounting.
Accrual and cash-basis reports, aging, bank reconciliation and year-end close that your accountant will trust. - Quotes, inventory and purchasing in the same system.
Users often rely on these. Replacing QuickBooks with a bookkeeping-only tool can push you into more add-ons. - Pricing that fits your team.
Per-seat pricing grows with every name on your payroll. Concurrent-user pricing counts only the people logged in at once. - Security you can control and count on.
Multi-factor sign-in and permission profiles by user. - Access from anywhere, without running your own server or remote-desktop workaround.
Why businesses choose The Business Assistant
The Business Assistant™ at TheAsst.com is a web-based system that covers quoting, sales orders, purchasing, lot-level inventory, invoicing and recurring billing, time tracking and double-entry accounting in one place. Every sale, bill and hour posts to your books as it happens. It is built for companies that outgrew simple bookkeeping, but still want to keep it simple.
- Cost, profit, markup and margin shown while you build the quote
- Accrual and cash-basis reports, aging, cash flow forecast and year-end close, with PDF and Excel export
- Financial Dashboard
- Built-in timeclock with a shop-floor kiosk
- Concurrent-user pricing: $75 a month for up to 3 users, half price for the first 3 months
- US-based support included
How the move works
- Sign up and create your company in minutes. No QuickBooks data is touched.
- Export. With your company file open on a Windows PC, run our extractor. It reads your data through QuickBooks itself. Your file is never altered. With QuickBooks Online, you download some reports.
- Review and import. Upload the export and review how each QuickBooks field maps before anything is loaded.
- Check your numbers. Compare our reports with the ones you have now.
- Go live and invite your team.
Because of how QuickBooks stores some transactions, a few manual adjustments may be needed, and we recommend running both systems side by side until your reports agree. See the full walkthrough on Switch from QuickBooks, or compare features in The Business Assistant vs. QuickBooks.
Frequently asked questions
Is QuickBooks Desktop being discontinued?
Not entirely. Intuit stopped selling new Pro Plus, Premier Plus and Mac Plus subscriptions to US customers after September 30, 2024, but existing subscribers can renew and Enterprise continues. Older versions lose support on a schedule, so check Intuit’s site for your version.
Will I lose my QuickBooks data if I switch?
No. Your QuickBooks file stays as it is, and the import copies your data across. Keep QuickBooks available while you compare reports.
Does my accountant need to learn something new?
The reports (Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, aging, general ledger) are standard and export to PDF and Excel, so most accountants are productive immediately.
Try it before you move
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