
Intuit wants all revenue to be subscription based.I don’t talk to Intuit folks any more so I don’t have any current information, but this move makes sense to me in the context of what I’ve learned from them in the past. I also believe that there won’t be any sales of QuickBooks Pro and Premier via big box retailers and Amazon, but that isn’t clear to me at this point. There’s a prediction I totally missed years ago, I thought that the Mac product would be discontinued. QuickBooks Mac Plus will be introduced – a subscription of QuickBooks Mac desktop.The 2022 product won’t run on 32 bit computers. QuickBooks 2022 will only run on 64 bit computers. This isn’t a surprise, and I don’t expect it to affect too many people.Keep in mind that some features of the one-time-purchase 2021 product will be retired in just three years (for example, see QuickBooks 2018 Discontinuation Scheduled). One-time purchases of the 2021 version of QuickBooks Pro and Premier will be available for purchase through December 10, 2021, and only through Intuit direct sales as well as registered Intuit dealers/partners. QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2021 will still be available for a limited time.This is the “QuickBooks Pro Plus” and “QuickBooks Premier Plus” products that have been available for many years now. It will only be available on a yearly subscription basis.

You won’t be able to buy the (to be released soon) QuickBooks Desktop 2022 product as a “one time” product that you can use forever (with restrictions after support is retired).

This is something that I predicted would occur, although it came about a bit later than I expected. To get any QuickBooks Desktop product you will have to pay for an annual subscription. It should be no surprise that Intuit announced that QuickBooks Desktop will be subscription only by the end of this year.
