How do you go back to desktop after changing to online version? to use multiple A/P accounts i have to do journal entries. More work now than with the desktop version.

What QB Desktop year version did you use?

When did you convert data?

There isn’t an option to revert to QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) once you’ve migrated to QuickBooks Online (QBO). However, if you still have an active QBDT subscription, you can continue using it to track the workers' compensation. You'll just need to enter any transactions you've already made in the online version.

QBO manages universal taxes such as the Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance, but it doesn't have a specific calculator for Manitoba compensation rates yet. You can share your feedback about this feature directly in your account to help us improve your experience.

If you have additional concerns, reply below. We’re here to help.

To answer the other question I did the migration on May 5th.   I have QuickBooks Desktop Premier 2024 (the final desktop version released). I have maintained an active subscription and kept it up to date. According to your support team, I am able to continue using the desktop version because my subscription was never cancelled.

Rather than transferring data back from QuickBooks Online, I will simply re-enter the transactions in Desktop. Fortunately, I only entered approximately 12 transactions before realizing the platform limitations, so there is very little to recreate. I would have processed more activity, but I stopped once it became clear that QuickBooks Online was not suitable for our needs — even with the Advanced subscription.

Your online sales team needs to be much clearer about the limitations of QuickBooks Online before customers migrate. For example:

• Workers’ Compensation functionality is only supported for BC, Ontario, and Quebec, not all provinces.
• Only one Accounts Payable account is supported.
• Several accounting workflows require manual journal entries to work around system limitations.

After only a few transactions, it became obvious that my workload would increase significantly because I would constantly need to create correcting journal entries to compensate for the limitations of the online platform.

@VickyW 

If you don't need to run QB Payroll to sync with QB Desktop, you should stick with QB Desktop. There is away to lower your subscription  plan.