Not every sunset is a wonderful as the one shown in this photo. As if you were not already expecting it, after May 31, 2015, access to Intuit add-on services will be discontinued for QuickBooks 2012 Desktop (Windows and Mac) products. This year's sunset policy includes all versions of QuickBooks 2012 (Pro, Premier, Enterprise Solutions, Accountant Edition, and Mac). While these discontinued products will continue to work, you will not be able to subscribe to live technical support or any of the other Intuit services that you could previously integrate with your 2012 QuickBooks software.
The following add-on/integrated services will not be accessible after the service discontinuation date for QuickBooks 2012 Desktop products:
- Payroll services
- 1099 E-file services
- Credit-card processing
- Check solutions
- Bill Pay
- Bill solutions (formerly QuickBooks Online Billing)
- Online Banking
- Contributed Reports
- Accountant’s Copy File Transfer (ACFT) services
- Intuit Data Protect
- Enterprise Full Service Plan
- Advanced Inventory
- Intuit Technical Support
In addition to the above noted versions of QuickBooks, services will also be discontinued for QuickBooks Point-of-sale 10.0 after May 31, 2015. While this “sunset” software will continue to work, you will not be able to obtain live technical support or subscribe to any Intuit services that you could previously integrate with your QuickBooks Point-of-sale software.
The following add-on/integrated services will not be accessible after the service discontinuation date for QuickBooks Point-of-sale 10.0:
- Credit-card processing
- Intuit QBPOS Store-exchange service
- Intuit Technical Support
For more information, or details concerning Intuit's service discontinuation policy and upgrade information for QuickBooks see this website.