 So that you kind of have to update it each year now you might still be able to buy QuickBooks desktop somewhere before the date that they said that they switched to the subscription model in which case You know you can it'd be good to practice with that kind of software if nothing else Because because it's still good. So I mean it still does all the basic kind of things and You can practice with it but going forward it looks like everyone's going to be on the subscription thing now You would think on the other hand on the other side of things you would think that after Changing to the subscription model Into it it would be easier for into it to keep the desktop version because now they don't have to deal with supporting all the prior versions They can just update everyone the same way they do online So will that impact them as to whether they're gonna try to remove the desktop version not for the enterprise They're probably gonna keep that but just for like the pro I I don't know So multiple company files for one purchase on the desktop versus only one company file per purchase for the online Now obviously in certain areas Being able to have multiple company files with one purchase of the desktop Even if you have to pay annually in a subscription model is beneficial Because for example, if you're the type of bookkeeper that has multiple Companies that they do bookkeeping for with one accounting software then that's great, right? That you can you're gonna be able to do multiple company files and only pay the one for the one software because you because it's kind of like using Microsoft word for example, you can make multiple word documents And with one file the word documents being equivalent in this analogy to the company files Whereas with the online version you have to purchase a new online company file new online company per new company which So you could see what the advantages would be now for the for for into it Of course, you can see why they would want to have and force everybody to purchase a new company file If you're gonna be starting up a new company So I would think that would be possibly one of the tension areas where you have a lot of bookkeepers Which are saying hey look I have a business model that works with what I'm doing right now with the one company file and An online saying, you know, we want to we want to have everybody who starts a new company file to pay for a different subscription also The fact that you can have multiple company files is great for practicing and testing things So it's great for us from a student standpoint So if you're just using this to practice with having multiple company files that you can open is Really useful because then you can open a company file You can practice a certain thing and then you can open a different company file and practice something different And even if this was your own file for example for your company If you wanted to test something out like the bank feeds for example or test something out like a software Integration it would be great to have a sandbox to do that with Before doing it to your actual company file if you back up your company file make a separate company file and then test these things out It's a great tool Whereas that's more difficult to do with the online version with the online version I can't really just make a separate company file as easily and play with it. There are alternatives They have the QuickBooks test drive and stuff But they don't have as much functionality and you don't have as much customization Then if you were to make your own company file so static backup files versus data stored on secure server Now there's two main things that come with this backup files when we have backup files Traditionally we think of those as we need them so that we don't lose our data That's one use of them But another use of them is that we can use the backup files to restore our data to a prior point in time And we can use the backup files to set up separate company files So that we can practice with having a sandbox to kind of practice with so first if we think of it as just Having secure data the argument from into it is the online version is actually better They say because your data is stored on the Intuit servers and the Intuit servers are having are being triple backed up and everything So the servers should actually be more secure than your computer and Therefore the online version is more secure than the desktop version now that may be true But I still think the desktop version can be pretty secure if you properly do your backups very secure, you know if you properly do your backups because What you want to do on your backup files is back them up to a separate Drive or online in other words you could set up your backups to basically do automatic backups and back them up To say an online cloud or at least a separate external drive So they're not on your hard drive and you have a pretty you have a very secure I would think backup system now the other thing that's a benefit with the static backups on the other hand is That I can make multiple backups So if I'm backing up every night now, I have a nightly backup Which allows me if there's a problem to restore to any point that I want now the online is Trying to implement some of this ability to restore to a prior point and if you get the advanced online I think they have the ability to do that, but it's still not as easy as with the with the desktop version plus if I want to restore The online version it might actually rewrite the file that I'm in So if I want to go back to a prior point, it's going to rewrite the file Well, what if I don't want to actually go back to the prior point? But I want to look at the prior point to see what's different and then to see whether or not I want to go back to it It's going to be more difficult to do that if you only have one company file Whereas if you can make multiple files with the desktop It would be like making a separate word document or a separate Excel file And then having a sandbox to test out with it to see what went wrong So it's not just that I might want to restore to