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The steps you presented to stop asking to sign up for an Intuit account don't work

Hi there, @Tax Man. 

This is not the impression we want you to have when opening your company file in QuickBooks Desktop. Logging in to your Intuit account and verifying your identity helps you protect your data and your account. This is to make sure that you, and only you, can access your account. 

Also, QuickBooks is accounting software, it's necessary to have the credentials like the user and the password in compliance with the law.  As an alternative, you can select the option Remind me in 7 days to stop you from logging into the account.

For reference, feel free to check this article: Intuit account – Why now for QuickBooks Desktop?. 

On the other hand, you might want to change the login setting to can stay logged in to your QBDT file without having to enter a username and password. For the detailed steps, check out this link: Stay logged in to the QuickBooks company file.

I've also attached this helpful resource for guidance in managing your data safely and easily: Access and manage your data from the One Intuit Account Manager.

Please let me know if you have any other follow up questions about this. I'm always here in the Community to help. Have a great day ahead.

AbegailS,

Being you have links in your repsonse you could link the law and Intuit's legal page.  That would actually be helpful.

The forced login is not for our security.  It solely for the purpose of your company to track customers.  It states so on your legal page.  The link was sent to me by an Intuit employee roughly a year ago and specificly stated Intuit was using the information for tracking purposes.  No law was referenced.  

The only way the forced login in would protect our data and security is if our data were being stored on your platform.  That is not the case for myself and  most of the people who are complaining about the forced login.

Oh so tired of all this 

AbegaulS -  You and your co-workers just don't get it.  We (your Customers) do a fine job of keeping our data secured and private because we DO NOT WANT IT STORED ON INTUIT SERVERS.  For at least 2 years, thousands of Quickbook OWNERS have told you we do not want the requirement to log on to Intuit to us the software WE PURCHASED and have COMPLETE LICENSE TO USE. 

Every time I read these posts, I sigh, then laugh at the closed minds of Intuit staff.

You are now at a crossroads.  You can become part of the solution for your CUSTOMERS and advocate this position with Intuit Management and Corporate:  No required login to Intuit to use our Quickbooks. 

Or, you can become part of the Borg and continue with the pitiful bloviating.  

@AbegailS_ 

RE: Logging in to your Intuit account and verifying your identity helps you protect your data and your account. 

How?  How can logging into my Intuit account protect my Intuit account? Seems like circular logic to me...

RE: This is to make sure that you, and only you, can access your account. 

Yes, that's what the password on the intuit account does, but how does logging into my account make sure that only I can access my account? The password does that, not the act of logging in, right?

RE: Also, QuickBooks is accounting software, it's necessary to have the credentials like the user and the password in compliance with the law. 

I expect that is up to the user, not Intuit. I can't imagine the US government stating that software manufactures must require a password to open a file. Many don't, in fact, which supports my claim. In any case, the complaint isn't about requiring a password to open the file. It's about requiring both a password and logging into a remote account on Intuit's servers. I'm very sure the government does not require any such thing.

Hey there abegail, that may not be the impression you want us to have, but it IS the impression we have.  Your response not only irritating, but insulting. Please review the other responses to your message, with details that show your message is misleading, false, and wholly unhelpful.  Small businesses cannot afford the predatory practice of charging a monthly fee for QBO.  Give us back our bank feeds for Desktop users!

After all my bouncing back and forth for 3 years on this I found another possible solution...

From the QB Help menu at top of screen... Is a strangely placed menu for internet connection enable / disable...

• 1.Launch Quickbooks and sign in as a user with sufficient rights to change system preferences and settings.

1.          2. Click "Help, " choose "Internet connection set-up," select "I do not have an Internet connection" and click "OK."

2.        3.Exit Quickbooks completely, launch the program and log in again as an administrative user.
   Test the lack of connection -> Click "Help" and "Update Quickbooks." Confirm that Quickbooks issues an error message that it cannot connect to the Internet.

Flyingkiwi, that is brilliant!!! So simple...so easy. Native built-in functionality to do what we have ALL been asking. Wow.

Intuit Support, this is the [useful] information you should have provided to us...your customers.

Many Kudos to you. Everybody, click the Cheer button for Flyingkiwi's post, it's simple, yet elegant.

Flyingkiwi, I'll second almon! This is an excellent solution to this very annoying problem. Of course Intuit wouldn't mention it because their goal is not to help users solve this problem. They created the problem for a reason in the first place, in order to force users to switch to their subscription versions.

You would think this could be a solution, because it certainly appeared to be. But far far back on this topic, as in 2 or more years ago, I believe it was reported that it didn't work, and that Intuit manages to overwrite that setting, connecting your QB desktop to the Internet by force, and you're back to signing in with 2 IDs and 2 passwords for each and every desktop version entity. I know it was overwritten on my desktop. The only way I've avoided the double sign-in, Internet exposure, and Intuit harvesting of my companies' data for 2 years was to make changes through Microsoft Windows Defender Firewall using 2 inbound blocking rules and 2 outbound blocking rules. The rules tell Windows to prevent the QB .exe files from accessing the Internet by blocking a TCP port. Someone was nice enough to write up specific instructions somewhere among the incredible 29 pages of complaints and useless responses from Intuit personnel about how we're all being protected. 

This method won't help if you use QB payroll, bank access, etc., since it blocks all Internet access before QB even starts up.

I don't think that Intuit can access any users computer without explicit, or implied consent. In fact, I believe it would be illegal under federal regulations to do so and by following the instructions to not set QBD to connect to the internet as FlyingKiwi points out one has removed any claim of implied consent. Now, I haven read through the EULA which may have provisions that overwright all of the above, but let's leave it at that for the moment. However, if a user clicks on something like "add services" or "upgrade to premium" that does reset the "no Internet connection" setting opening QBD to the Internet and potentially Intuit snooping via the notorious "Log in to your Intuit account" command.

I posted this back on page 27. I believe you have to stop these services as well. QB runs these services whether or not you have the program opened or not. (as long as your connected to the internet)

Intuit is already running these programs in the background:

Services:
QBCFMonitorService-QuickBooks Company File Monitoring Service
QBIDPService-Enables standard users to access Intuit Data Protect service.

Startup:
Intuit Data Protect
Quickbooks Update Agent
Quickbooks_Standard-21

If you want your desktop QB to never ever communicate with the internet in any way at all, this "might" work on PC's:

Control panel>systems and security>windows defender firewall (click the main title “windows defender firewall”, not any of the subtitles)>advance settings>outbound rules (because evidently our computers actually go outbound to communicate with quickbooks when using it or something like that)>new rule>program>next>browse>this PC>C (or c drive)>program files (X86) (it is possible that your exe file will be under the regular/non-X86 plain “program files” instead)>common files>intuit>quickbooks>QBWebConnector>QBWebConnector.exe>next>block the connection

100 percent yes.

This is 100 percent NOT TRUE. 

If this were the case, you would require the login ID every time at bootup, but it only happens every 6 months or so.  You are literally scamming people via hostage tactics.

The method I described seems to be working to keep QB from connecting to the internet. But, if that proves to be not true in the future, I am going to add the same style of change (it is making a rule) to the same .exe file except with regard to inbound rules as well. 

Just to clarify, I do not work for QB. I am just a customer. I am not a scammer nor am I trying to hold anyone hostage. I am just making a suggestion customer to customer to try to help solve this problem that has existed for about 2 years or more. I guess my attempted solution did not work for the person that recently posted and I did not fully understand their response. Also, I did just post another option to potentially try if the other solution did not work.

BULL!

STOP THIS ANNOYANCE!

OR, DO YOU HAVE A RECOMENDATION OF A COMPETITORS BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM THAT I COULD MIGRATE TO?

ONLY BECAUSE THIS IS SO ANNOYING I WILL NEVER, EVER SIGN UP FOR A QB ACCOUNT.

I WILL CONVERT BEFORE DOING SO.

IS THIS ADVICE COMING FROM YOUR "SALES PREVENTION DEPARTMENT"?

MUST BE!

END IT!

I have absolutely zero affiliation with Intuit/Quickbooks. I am 100% just a customer who was just trying to come up with a solution to what apparently is a longstanding problem.

And STILL, 2 years later, nothing has been done about this.  I just started getting this popup.  So frustrating.  I actually tried to log into my Intuit account but it said I couldn't even do it without getting updates.  I got the updates but I still have the same issue.  I have the 2018 version.

Is the only option to keep postponing the reminder for 7 days?

Yes, it is frustrating that Intuit has chosen not to address this issue other than to try to drive folks to the online subscription model, but there are a few solutions that creative readers of this thread have uncovered.  One is sure to help you but you will need to dig into this long thread  to find what will work best for you.  I personally use the firewall  fix - blocking just the Quickbooks program from accessing the internet, then it stops asking you to log in.  Other fixes abound that seem to work for some folks but not others.  Find what works for you.