On Wednesday, August 28th, 2019, the originator of the boycott wrote:
QuickBooks has come a long way since I began to boycott. I knew it would do far better, as it has. One Intuit CEO said, "Keep raising hell when Intuit does something wrong." A second Intuit CEO said, "Your fantastic Mike." That was great. But, the big picture is that Intuit helps millions inexpensively better manage small businesses (QuickBooks), taxes (TurboTax), home checkbooks (Quicken) and credit (Mint).No further action is permitted in relation to this boycott including joining and commenting.
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You may get less than 30 months of full QuickBooks use, after buying it from Intuit, before Intuit Crippled QuickBooks. After Intuit Crippled QuickBooks you cannot email invoices from QuickBooks, download bank statements for reconciling, buy new tax tables, or get Intuit support. Many web services also stop working.
This year, for the first time, Intuit also will stop third-party QuickBooks remote hosting companies from letting you use old QuickBooks versions remotely. It is even using its monopoly to kill more than a thousand QuickBooks hosting companies, which it very actively encouraged to get into or expand their QuickBooks and QuickBooks add-ons hosting business. This is clearly part of making QuickBooks a rental-only web product, for which Intuit can always change prices monthly.
A 12,000+ word QuickBooks Software License Agreement, to which you must consent before you install QuickBooks, has some words about how Intuit Crippled QuickBooks. However, it also says Intuit can change "this Agreement" at any time. It can do this without your consent and without even notifying you. All it must do is to post a change notice on one of its countless web pages.
This Agreement denies liability for damaging user data, though Intuit admits it did this. Intuit also has no liability if QuickBooks stops working at all, or if you cannot get to your data. After 60 days, you cannot even get a refund. Intuit even has the right to make YOUR BUSINESS DATA USELESS IF IT EVEN SUSPECTS YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG. THAT WRONG CAN BE ANYTHING AT ALL, SINCE INTUIT CAN CHANGE "THIS AGREEMENT" AT ANY TIME.
SO PLEASE HELP US BOYCOTT QUICKBOOKS. Stop buying QuickBooks and other Intuit programs and services. Boycott all third party QuickBooks add-ons and services, unless these companies pledge to help with this Boycott QuickBooks effort. We will help you find programs and services that help you make it easy to Boycott QuickBooks painlessly.
By the way, Mike Block, a QuickBooks CPA who is starting this Boycott QuickBooks effort, also did this twice before. Both prior boycotts quickly succeeded. The last one made the Intuit CEO write, "Keep Raising Hell When Intuit Does Something Wrong." I now ask you to Boycott QuickBooks because they are making the biggest Intuit Mitakes, as http://QuickBooks-Blog.com/ will detail.
Intuit Crippled QuickBooks.
Destruction of QuickBooks hosting industry.
A user-friendly Software License Agreement.
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Company responses
Our accountants told us to use quickbooks so we use it. Otherwise we will have to get new accountants.
What are the alternatives to QuickBooks?
Also, why doesn't someone start an open-source version of QuickBooks, just like they have with Microsoft's Office suite?