March 11, 2025 | 12:30pm EST

Stay in QuickBooks Desktop Or Migrate to QBO?

Harriet Gatter

QuickBooks, the Accounting Software of choice for small and medium sized businesses everywhere, is in the process of encouraging their clients to convert their customers from desktop products to an online product.

Perhaps you’ve noticed some price changes and some not-so-subtle pressure to convert to QuickBooks Online.

It certainly appears that the Online product will be the only option over time, but there are questions.

Let’s examine this QBO product and the future of QuickBooks for our industry.

• How long can we stay in Desktop?
• What does migration to QBO involve?
• What does QBO look like?

Harriet Gatter is an independent consultant serving Promotional Product Distributors exclusively. She is a former distributor (and accounting professor) who sold her business in 2013 and become a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in both Desktop and QB Online. She founded Accounting Support, LLC to streamline accounting and order management by converting distributors from other systems into QuickBooks integrating with industry order management systems. Her mission is to provide a practical and affordable back-office solution for Distributors.

… Her expertise includes QuickBooks integrating with SAGE Online, commonsku, ESP+, and MPower

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