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It's my pleasure to assist you with your concern about transferring your QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) file to QuickBooks Online (QBO).
To successfully import your QBDT company file, please make sure to select the correct QBO account where to transfer the data.
If you want to cancel the company that has no data from QBDT and continue to subscribe to the new company, yes, it will be associated with the subscription.
Additionally, if you'll be migrating from the QBDT US version to QBO International, it's possible that it created a new QBO subscription with the same region as the QBDT. If that's the case and you still want to continue with the paid subscription without the data, you'll want to manually export the info from QBDT and import it to QBO.
You can read through this article for guidance: Move your QuickBooks Desktop file to QuickBooks Online. Although this is for the US, but the process is still applicable to the Global region.
Please visit this link for future reference in managing data in QBO: Common questions about importing data to QuickBooks Online.
Keep me posted if you have clarification or additional QuickBooks concerns. I'll be around to help you.
@Anonymous
Where is your company located?
Which QB Desktop year version and country version do you have?
The company is a school in Togo, West Africa. But the school has been using a US version of QB 2019. The ladies doing entry are bilingual but would be more comfortable being able to use QB in French so I subscribed to the Global version. Perhaps that is creating the problem?
You need to purchase a 3rd party service to convert data from QB Desktop US version to QB Online Global version. I would recommend to keep using your QB Desktop to access your historical data and start from scratch in QB Online to lower your conversion costs. You can use a newer trial version to access your historical data for good if required.
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