[curun1r]

> So, does this mean QBD is basically the living dead

That was the impression I got when I was there. They're putting a ton of effort into getting people to migrate. But there's still a ton of die-hards that won't and they were continually having to push back their sunsetting plans. I've been gone more than a year now, so I can't say what the current situation is.

It sounds like you're a lot more familiar with the long-tail features of QuickBooks, so I may be recommending something that's missing a lot of what you need, but my favorite competitor product was Wave. They seemed to be the only one that was actually trying to make an intuitive product that wasn't unpleasant to use. It's online though and I don't really know much about the desktop alternatives, so if you're set on running on-prem software, it won't work for you. The accounting stuff is free, though, if you want to play with it.

But Xero is also online only, right? I was pretty negative on them, considering they basically started from scratch in an era where the result should have been much better than Quickbooks considering it didn't have all the baggage that Quickbooks has to deal with. And yet they came up with something that's arguably just as frustrating to use.

[tempestn]

Yeah, Xero is online too. It was just the only one that appeared to check all the boxes I need. (Most were missing one of payroll, inventory management, or multi-currency support.)