It depends which edition. Intuit's help article on new US subscriptions states that after September 30, 2024 it stopped selling new subscriptions of QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus, Premier Plus, Mac Plus, and Desktop Enhanced Payroll in the United States. The same article states directly that "QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise products are not impacted by this change and customers can continue to purchase Enterprise subscriptions after September 30, 2024."
So a new seller in the US today can buy QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise. They cannot buy a new Pro Plus or Premier Plus subscription from Intuit.
Not because of the stop-sell. Intuit's article answers this specifically, saying the change "applies to new purchases only" and that existing subscribers "can continue to renew their subscriptions after September 30, 2024," with Intuit continuing to provide security updates, product updates, and support for existing subscribers.
Separately, every version year ages out on a rolling schedule. Intuit's current discontinuation article covers QuickBooks Desktop 2023 and states that after May 31, 2026 that version year stops getting support, including Pro Plus 2023, Premier Plus 2023, Mac Plus 2023, and Enterprise Solutions 23.0. Staying on an active subscription and upgrading the version year keeps you inside support.
The inventory features most sellers are shopping for are gated. Intuit's Advanced Inventory product page footnotes state that Advanced Inventory is "included in the Platinum and Diamond subscriptions only," and applies the same limit to landed cost, sales order fulfillment, pick-pack-ship, and lot expiration dates.
If you need FIFO costing, multi-site stock, or landed cost allocation inside QuickBooks, Platinum is the floor. QuickBooks Enterprise Silver and Gold do not have them.
No. QuickBooks Desktop has no native marketplace connections. Left alone, it sees a bank deposit and nothing else. It does not know that the $243,035.66 that arrived from Amazon was $402,118.40 in product sales less referral fees, fulfillment fees, storage, refunds, advertising, and a reserve movement.
That translation has to come from somewhere. ConnectBooks handles it for Amazon, Shopify, Walmart, eBay, and TikTok Shop through the QuickBooks integrations set, including Shopify into Desktop and Enterprise.
No, and this is the single most common self-inflicted wound in the category.
A seller doing 900 orders a day who imports order-level detail adds roughly 27,000 transactions a month to the company file. Within a year the file is slow, the reports take minutes to run, and the bank reconciliation never matches because the sum of orders is not the sum of deposits.
Summarize by settlement or payout period. Keep order detail where order detail belongs, in the marketplace and in your operational system. QuickBooks needs the financial result, not the transaction log.
Under marketplace facilitator rules, the platform collects and remits sales tax on your behalf in the states where those rules apply. That money passes through you. It is not revenue and it is not your expense.
The mechanics vary by state, by platform, and by year, and they have changed repeatedly since 2018. Treat this as a question for your CPA or the state's department of revenue rather than something to settle from a blog post, including ours. What we can say generally: money you never keep should never sit in a revenue account.
Nothing, on its own. Units in an Amazon fulfillment center are your asset, but QuickBooks has no visibility into Amazon's count, and the two drift constantly through receiving discrepancies, damaged units, lost units, customer returns that never make it back to sellable, and reimbursements.
Advanced Inventory can carry an inventory site representing the fulfillment center, but the quantity in that site is whatever you last told it. Keeping it accurate requires either a reconciliation habit or a system that reads the marketplace inventory data.
Intuit states that QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise supports up to 40 users, with permissions assignable across 115 individual work activities, and that Diamond is the tier that reaches 40. Licenses are sold separately in increments, all copies must be the same version year, and Diamond is sold in increments of 1 to 10, 20, 30, and 40 users on a monthly payment plan.
Through hosting, yes. Intuit sells Enterprise with cloud hosting as a monthly subscription, and its own terms note that technical support for the hosted portion is powered by Rightworks and subject to Rightworks terms and conditions.
Practically, that means a second vendor relationship and a Windows session in a browser rather than a native web application. It works. It is not the same experience as QuickBooks Online.
Five things have to tie:
If those five tie, the profit and loss is trustworthy. If any of them does not, the number at the bottom is a guess with two decimal places.
Sellers often ask why their QuickBooks revenue and their marketplace dashboard disagree. Here is the arithmetic on a single eBay order.
An item sells for $118.00 with $12.00 shipping charged to the buyer and $9.10 in sales tax, for a buyer payment of $139.10.
eBay's published seller fee schedule for most categories is 13.6 percent on the total amount of the sale up to $7,500, plus a per-order fee of $0.40 for orders over $10.00. eBay states that the total amount of the sale includes the item price, shipping, and sales tax.
So the final value fee is 13.6 percent of $139.10, or $18.92, plus $0.40, for $19.32.
The seller's dashboard shows a $118.00 sale. The bank eventually shows roughly $110.68 net of the fee, less shipping cost actually paid and less the sales tax remitted. If the seller books $118.00 as revenue and the deposit as the offset, three accounts are wrong at once.
Multiply that by 4,000 orders a month and the drift is not a rounding issue. It is a five-figure misstatement.
Not on Intuit's current published position. Enterprise is still sold to new US customers, and Intuit has not published a sunset date for the Enterprise product line. What it has published is a rolling version-year discontinuation schedule and a stop-sell on the lower Desktop editions.
The reasonable planning posture is to stay on a supported version year, keep your data portable, and avoid building anything that only works because of a specific Desktop quirk. That is good practice regardless of what any vendor announces.
Software does not make books accurate. Reconciliation does. What good tooling changes is how long the reconciliation takes and whether an error surfaces in a day or a quarter.
ConnectBooks posts settlement-level entries that tie to the deposit, carries FIFO cost of goods at the SKU level, and stands behind the result with an accuracy guarantee. The broader accounting approach and current plan capability are on the pricing page.
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