Yeah. I'm planning to stay with QuickBooks, even though it's extremely annoying and expensive. I'm a 1-person company and want to keep my accounting hours to a minimum, so I don't have time to mess with learning a new software after 20 years in business. I'd like to have some weekends off occasionally...

@TreeLadyHI 

Do you have QB Online or Desktop?

QuickBooks Desktop - though it changed a few months ago to a subscription service that is hosted online. And they're not going to offer the Desktop option to new subscriptions anymore. They had said that it wouldn't be offered after July, but I think they extended it a couple of months. I haven't been following it closely since I signed up for mine. I wouldn't be surprised if they force us all to switch to Online at some point if we want to have QB at all. 

I've used QB Online as the treasurer for a small nonprofit before. There were pros and cons, but more cons for me than pros. And there's always a learning curve. 

If I use QB Desktop, my data is protected behind my firewall and a dozen security measures our outside IT has in place.  Our software is best protected by NOT connecting to QB Cloud or any external applications; and we don't need or want to do that; thus, there should be ZERO need for me to ever connect it to an Intuit account;  The software we use for our primary business is specific to law firms and is made by a large global company that is very compliance-centric and they do not require us to login to software that we own that lives on our internal network.  No matter how many ways Intuit tries to spin this as being for the user's benefit or security, it will not make it true.  

Agreed, more access cannot make things more secure, that is the definition of less security. It does allow them to have access to data.  I would assume they use this to advertise loans or sell that info to other people for advertising purposes.  It provides nothing useful to us as users, but they push it like it their business might fail without it.  Which is possibly true. I really wish they would at least admit that it isn't for security and they are unwilling to give up their access to the data.

I would not use QB anymore. They are not to be trusted. Use AME software. Great old write up program that works in windows.  

This was useless - I clicked Dont allow apps etc and still get QB wanting me to log in and now I'm getting another notification asking about updating or learn more - I can only say Maybe later - I want both to stop PERMANENTLY. Why does QB force this crap down out throats?