November 2025
Beginner
400 pages
8h 16m
English
Content preview from QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2026 Edition, 10th Edition
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Chapter 24
Ten Things QuickBooks Won’t Tell You
IN THIS CHAPTER
Watching expenses and minding where your data goes
Keeping up with QuickBooks quirks
QuickBooks Online is powerful, but it’s not without secrets. Some of these secrets are small annoyances, while others can trip you up in ways that have long-term consequences for your business. Intuit doesn’t exactly advertise them, but I’m here with the unvarnished truth. These are ten things QuickBooks won’t tell you, until one day you stop and say, “Wait a minute …”
Expecting the Rent to Go Up
QuickBooks Online is a subscription-based service, which means you never truly “own” it. You’re a renter, and yes, the rent is too damn high. Intuit adjusts pricing frequently — often once a year. Sometimes QuickBooks moves features around within the tiers, which can be a stealth price increase.
To its credit, Intuit has been pushing features like custom fields down to the Simple Start level, but in a severely limited fashion. These feature expansions are mostly teasers to tempt you to pay for more functionality at a higher subscription tier.
Assume your subscription cost will rise. Build 10–15 percent wiggle room into your budget every ...
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