edit self-employment company name

Good to hear from you today, lfrosen720.

Changing the company name will take 3-5 business days and any updates about the process will be sent straight to your email.

If you haven't received any updates on the allocated time frame, I'd suggest reaching out to our QuickBooks Desktop Support and follow-up the case number.

To ensure we address your concern on time, check out our support hours. Here's how to get in touch or chat with us:

1. Go to https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/contact.
   
2. Choose your QuickBooks Product.
3. Select your QuickBooks version.
4. Give a brief description of your issue and click Continue.
   
5. Then choose a way to connect.
   

To know more about this process, check out the following resources. These will provide you with steps on how to update your legal business name, address as well as a link where you can manage your QuickBooks products and services:

Update your business name and address for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll.

Change, manage or update your Intuit account with CAMPs.

If I can be of additional assistance while working in QuickBooks, please let me know. I'd be more than willing to lend you a hand. Have a good one!

Is it possible that it is requiring an EIN because of the former payroll subscription?   Try this: under Edit>Preferences>Payroll & Employees>Company Preferences click the "No payroll" radio button and see if that allows you to change the company name under "My Company".

Great suggestion, but unfortunately, this didn't work, either.  I did exactly what you suggested, but got the message that "The Intuit Payroll Service requires your Federal Employer ID."

I tried contacting Intuit's "entity change" unit about this by email nine months ago, and cited my case number in the subject line, but received a note asking for more time to respond.  Then nothing.

However, I am now awaiting a callback from Support, and hope to finally begin resolving this issue.

The issue is *finally* resolved. 

The problem was that while I allowed my payroll subscription to expire after closing our S Corp, Quickbooks still "saw" an active payroll subscription, and therefore required an EIN.

A payroll manager eventually came on the line and shared my screen.  He eventually had me enter a code and check the option to remove all links to any payroll subscription in my copy of Quickbooks.  Once that was done, I was finally able to correct the typo in our sole proprietor company name.  I greatly appreciated his help.

Prior to the manager's involvement, the rep was telling me I had to contact IRS to get an EIN, etc, which alarmed me to the point of asking for a manager.  If I hadn't gotten the manager's help, I would have given up trying to correct the problem forever.  It was nearly two hours of incredible frustration, and I apologized to the rep and her manager for my patience wearing thin.