Posted - 05/23/2025 : 12:28:54
1. QuickBooks Pricing Rant
From 2013 to 2022, we purchased QuickBooks Desktop Pro from Costco for $159 every three years—solely to maintain access to bank feeds, which Intuit disabled on older versions every three years. The effective cost was about $53 per year.
Then in 2022, Intuit stopped selling through retailers and moved to a direct-only model with a steep jump in price: $268.10 per year.
Since then, the price has skyrocketed. We just received a renewal notice quoting $999.99 per year.
This, for software that hasn’t seen a useful upgrade in over a decade.
We’d love to walk away from Intuit’s abusive pricing, but we’ve built so many workflows around QuickBooks that we’re effectively locked in.
2. Inventory Workaround
We find QuickBooks’ built-in inventory tools clunky and limited, and third-party import tools seemed to create more work than they saved.
Following our CPA’s advice, we now download weekly sales data from the shopping cart and append it to an Excel spreadsheet that tracks full sales history, incoming parts orders, manual adjustments, and so on.
At month-end, we enter a single inventory adjustment in QuickBooks to reflect usage and calculate COGS.
I'm glad to share more details offline if anyone’s interested.
Edited by - pauld on 05/23/2025 12:35:14
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