Switch to Kantivo with our 12-Year Price Lock Guarantee
Move your QuickBooks Desktop books across and keep your rate locked until 2038. Never worry about surprise price hikes again.
We understand — you've already paid, and switching feels wasteful. That's why we're offering a complimentary trial extension to match your remaining QuickBooks subscription period.
How it works: Start your trial → Contact support with proof of your QB subscription end date → We extend your trial to match. Switch on your timeline, not theirs.
📧 Contact support@kantivopro.com after starting your trial
See exactly what you'll save over 12 years
| Feature | QuickBooks Online | Kantivo |
|---|---|---|
| Starting Monthly Price | $38/mo ($456/yr) | $25/mo ($299/yr) |
| Price Lock Guarantee | ❌ No — increases annually | ✅ 12 Years Locked |
| Multi-Currency | Essentials tier and up ($85/mo) | ✅ All Plans |
| Multi-Company | Separate subscription each | ✅ Unlimited (Pro+) |
| Your Data Location | Their cloud servers | ✅ Your computer |
| Works Offline | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| Inventory Management | Plus tier only | ✅ All Plans |
| 12-Year Total Cost* | $11,000+ | $3,588 |
| Your 12-Year Savings → | $7,400+ | |
*QuickBooks rates checked 14 August 2026 against Intuit's published U.S. list, then carried forward at 12% a year — under half of what Plus actually rose in 2026. Kantivo Basic at locked $299/year.
Here's what switching from QuickBooks to Kantivo saves you:
Nobody switches accounting software until they know the history survives the trip. So, plainly: your company file stays where it is. What moves is an export taken out of QuickBooks — accounts, customer and supplier records, and the transactions behind them.
Exports are produced by QuickBooks itself, which means you need a copy that still launches. Anyone whose licence sits on ageing hardware, or who is running a release Intuit has already retired, should pull that export today and decide about software afterwards. Support for the 2023 editions ended on 31 May 2026, and a Desktop subscription that lapses can't be bought back on Pro Plus or Premier Plus. Once the file is saved somewhere safe, no deadline can strand your records.
Why we can't just read your .qbw. QuickBooks keeps everything inside a proprietary .qbw company file, and Intuit has never opened that format to anybody. No competing package reads one — which is precisely why Intuit's own migration into QuickBooks Online begins with an export as well. Kantivo accepts IIF, CSV, Excel, QIF, QFX and QBO.
A realistic timescale. Exporting and loading takes very little time. Verifying the result against your previous balances is the real work, and rushing it is a false economy. Treat opening balances, reconciled banking and a clean chart of accounts as the job — get those right and your first month closes without drama.
Supported editions. QuickBooks Desktop Pro, Premier, Mac and Enterprise, including releases as old as 2013. The IIF format has stayed remarkably stable across those two decades. If your setup is unusual or the export won't behave, tell us what you're working with — you'll get a reply from a person, generally the same day.
The complete list. We catalogued what survives the move off QuickBooks Desktop and what is left behind, including the items every migration loses — Intuit’s own included.
Full import walkthroughBring your entire accounting history with you
We've just called verification the real work of a migration. Rather than leave you to it, we'll do it. Send us the exports, switch on temporary access, and our migration team loads your accounts, customers, suppliers and history into your own installation, then reconciles what landed against what QuickBooks reported.
The migration is finished when the numbers agree, and you get to see them agree. That is what the tie-out report is for.
Access on your terms. The seven days are counted from the day we begin work rather than the day you grant it, so waiting for a slot costs you none of them. It closes itself the moment your migration is delivered, and a single click ends it sooner. It reaches only the company you granted it on, and it doesn't consume one of your advisor connections.
Decisions come back to you. Two accounts carrying the same name, a receivable that turns out to be a deposit — those alter what your books report, so they arrive as a question in the app rather than as something we decided on your behalf.
How far back we go. Balances at your cutover date, with the current and prior year carried across in detail. That is the depth that reconciles cleanly, and the one any accountant would advise taking; your QuickBooks file goes on being the archive for everything before it. Want more than that? Tell us, and we'll walk through what it involves before committing to it.
No charge, and no catch to look for. Migration is the single largest reason people stay on software they've outgrown. Removing it is worth more to us than billing for it, so it's included on a trial as readily as on a paid licence.
Try Kantivo and book your migrationMost Desktop users treat going online as continuity and switching vendors as risk. That instinct is doing a lot of work for the incumbent. Per Intuit's own support documentation, these data types cannot be converted from Desktop to QuickBooks Online:
The import also expires. You get 60 days counted from the creation of the online company — which is often weeks before anyone begins the actual conversion — and files past 750,000 transaction lines are flagged by Intuit for discrepancies and slow processing.
To be straight with you: budgets and memorised entries get rebuilt wherever you go, including here. What changes is the framing. Desktop 2023 support ended on May 31, 2026. Desktop 2024 has had its retirement date lifted, but it renews at $1,351 a year from October 2026. So the choice is between paying that every year and one migration to somewhere with a fixed price. Once you decide to leave, the destination is the only thing left to choose.
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Intuit put QuickBooks Online up twice inside 2026 — once on 1 May, again on 1 August. Plus finished the run 55% dearer than it started. Your Kantivo rate does not move for 12 years.
Advanced took it harder still across the same months: $200 → $250 → $340/mo, a 70% jump. The Desktop line was not spared either — roughly 10% on 1 February 2026, with a single-user Desktop Pro Plus renewal moving from $999 to $1,149 a year, and a second rise for renewals dated on or after 1 October 2026 taking it to $1,351, for software Intuit closed to new customers back in September 2024.
Kantivo: $299/year today = $299/year in 2038. Guaranteed.
$100MWe keep score by this lock. Kantivo becomes a $100 million company when customers have saved $100 million under it. See the promise →Start your free 30-day trial. Import your QuickBooks data. See why businesses are switching.
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