DISABLE forced Intuit.com account login.

Very unhappy with the forced Intuit login as well.  We are in a multi-user, multi-company, environment and it is ridiculous to have multiple logins for one company.  As an accountant who often sets up QB companies, I can no longer set myself up as a user if I am already an Admin.  VERY UNHAPPY.  Come on, INTUIT.  We are marketed to enough. 

I am seriously annoyed to the point that if you can not turn this feature off, I am going to look at other account software such us Intact-Sage, Patriot, or Drake. I use QB for the simplicity of it. I have 5 different clients and I am not going to spend half my time entering in my log in. 

There is no value here for me or my clients. You state, "better control and protection of data" --- wrong my admin password is sufficient. In all the years I have been in the business, I have never once had an issue. Furthermore, should the internet go out, I am locked out. 

You also state "one account for all Intuit products" . No, if I want other products I will contact Intuit. I do not need you to contact me. 

Turn this feature off or loose me.... your call

i saw this coming, and i am ready to start a class action suit. i think i started my QuickBooks back in 2003 and i own the program than when was not paying attention i paying for it too often i only use it to bill  out my customer and keep track of my inventory  cost, so i am only using about 10% of this program, guess it time to jump ship they got too greedy which is what killing the USA greed 

I find it incredible that any company would ignore the pleas of their paying customers as Intuit is obviously doing. I have researched trying to disable this intrusive popup since it first appeared.  The first 'workaround' I found is '[dis]allow any applications to access this company file' in Preferences=>Integrated Applications=>Company Preferences.  The problem is, that I USE that feature to automate the importation of invoices from a SQL database to a multitude of QB files, so if I turn it off, my little homegrown app won't work (and the AP department will toss me off the roof).  .

The workaround that I developed was to create a new user role.  If you don't use QB for payroll and usually grant your employees full access, you can create a new role which includes everything except for payroll related tasks.  I typically exclude Employee Center, Employees & Payroll, and Time Tracking.  Obviously this won't work if you use QB payroll, but it has been an acceptable workaround for my users. And perhaps if you do use QB payroll, this login feature might be an advantage. But we are strictly QuickBooks desktop and having this login forced upon us is inexcusable. 

Fortunately my enterprising users found the workaround to close out of the Intuit Account popup, which is now infecting my user accounts in addition to the admin account (and yes, I meant to use the word 'infect' because anything that slows down my users is toxic). For those of you who couldn't get this to work, this is how we do it -  Right-click anywhere in the dark blue bar on the Intuit Account popup and chose Close from the dropdown.  **NOTE** - you won't see the typical icons in the upper right corner on this popup - it's a solid dark blue bar all the way across the popup. After you select close, you'll get another popup - Are you sure you want to cancel signing in to your Intuit account? - Close this box by using the X in the upper right corner.  This should clear the login popup and allow users to work.

If this is, indeed, Intuit's thinly veiled attempt to force everyone off QB desktop and onto QB Online, I'll be the first to find a new accounting system.  If I wanted to use QB Online, then I would be using QB Online.

Tweet your complaint to @QBCares  Apparently Intuit monitors that.  We are more likely to see changes from public comments than complaints in a message board controlled by Intuit.

Loyal Intuit customer since 1990- that’s 31 years. (Tom Proulx himself handed me my first copy of Quicken in 1989.)  One more QuickBooks user soon to be an ex-customer. Sole proprietor, desktop version, data file backed up on site. No internet involved, nor needed.

Forcing me to log in to my own program with a password was annoying, but this is the final straw.

As of now, I am UNABLE TO OPEN MY OWN DATA FILE.

I’ll research accounting software this winter and make the switch.

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Or any other Intuit employee want to reply to this, start by answering ONLY ONE question:

“How does this new requirement to log in to an Intuit account online keep MY data more secure than it is now, residing ONLY on a local computer and local backup?”

NICE!!!  Yeah I bought ...meaning paid full price before this ransome ware sht began.  How ethically FCKED up is this company!!! Is this any different than the RUssians HACKING hospitals?  I worked 3 days straight to untangle my self from this comapny and they will make it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard its classless and pathetic how this company is trying to get more money out of you.  My advise is step by step change all your information and then change your credit card number to really disconnect with these terrorists.  I spoke to one of TOP agents at fraud in BANK OF AMERICA for an hour about this practice by Intuit and she calls this "clever" economics.  Basically SCUMBAGS!

I agree with you.  All of these changes are creating hardships for my clients, who are paying for all of their users and now they need to set up all these accounts.  They had to set up accounts for the cash register, and they are very busy.

I try to login and they have to set permissions for me, and everyone else. in the middle of their workday, and I have always been an Admin.

Then there is the direct deposit changes and logging into the Intuit account when it has been too long. One client had such a horrible time, and no one could help her by phone.

I almost lost an Enterprise (10) User to Net Suite.

Between this and QBO, you are going to lose people, in my humble opinion with (23) years experience.

Most irritating and beyond fed up with this rhetoric. Now they want a )(*&^% cell number... Like we don't get enough flipping interruptions and spam BS a day..How would the corporate a$$'s like their day interrupted and ads plastered acroos their building or better yet across their windshield as they are driving. This is how I liken the pesky annoyances and 'solicitations' . There is a special place in hell for this kind of deceptive practice

Wow...Where do so many grown people get the idea that throwing a tantrum is ever the right thing to do? I only have a solution for those that are saying they can't "X out" of the prompt. You can X out by typing anything into the username field of the intuit prompt and clicking next. Then x out of the following box and click cancel. YOUR GOOD, YOUR IN. 2 Seconds of your precious time (or less for those fast clickers types). News flash: Many software companies are modernizing to a shared platform business model so yes, they can market products they feel add value to those customers who would never seek out anything new even if it could greatly benefit them. Microsoft using the Office 365 model, Adobe using Creative Cloud model, most media sites allowing to log in with a Facebook or Google account. Welcome to the future, where companies do what they can to make money, I know, crazy right?! For those that have the Desktop version who "have it so they don't need online services"...You do need online services, to update your software. Not updating your software regularly?! That's a huge mistake since updates via online services are the only way to patch security holes. No release of a software is locked air tight from the start and definitely can't stay air tight as the rest of the software world evolves. Lastly, just because a company doesn't bend to the will of a few people typing in all caps, don't assume they aren't "fixing the problem". They might just be prioritizing things above your tiny slice of perspective. I think the real problem is the way folks devolve into utter rudeness when they don't have full control of everything. I would love to come to this "community" site and see a customer base that engages in productive feedback rather than tainting the message we're trying to send Quickbooks.