GoDaddy retiring online bookkeeping

[biggymoe]

Just got the following email from GoDaddy.  Of course, that is the service I use.  I hate change.

Online Bookkeeping will retire in 30 days.

After much consideration, we've made the decision to discontinue Online Bookkeeping on June 18, 2022. At that time, the Online Bookkeeping tool will stop importing transactions from your connected channels and your existing data will be archived. To provide you with the best possible experience going forward, we've partnered with Intuit to offer you a special discount on QuickBooks Online.

You have until September 30 to download your Online Bookkeeping content. You can either move your data to QuickBooks using our migration tool or export your .csv file and import it to another accounting platform. You'll receive a prorated return for any time remaining on your term.

We appreciate your business and are here to help make your transition as smooth as possible.

Anyone have experience with QuickBooks, good or bad?

[luckythewinner]

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@divwido wrote:

Now is a great time to learn Excel.

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Or alternatively OpenOffice if you want a free open source tool.

[jahood1984]

Yeah this is a bummer, does quick books automatically add up your fees and shipping or is that all manual?  I liked the profit totals minus those as well.... It's so hard to do eBay books manually because my monthly invoices aren't even close to the total of the annual 1099 and I like the added tax work go daddy does for me.  Now that's its taken several weeks (on average 2-4 now) for Fed ex and UPS to withdrawal a different amount of funds than was originally estimated and it's no longer showing me what sale the shipping withdrawal was even for, it's even harder.  

[southern*sweet*tea]

I came THIS CLOSE ( ) to signing up with them a few years ago when I was told I needed to "modernize" my trusty rusty ledger book.  So glad I didn't.

[georgestobbard]

I've spent hours researching alternatives to GoDaddy, and I'm still not sure what I'll do. Wave Bookkeeping is highly rated and it's free, but it doesn't integrate automatically with eBay. To integrate, you have to use a third-party app called Zapier, and this is where it gets confusing.  

Zapier has a free plan, but after you exceed a certain amount of usage during the course of a month you have to pay for a plan that isn't free. It is difficult to tell from the Zapier website just how quickly an eBay store owner will use up all the free services in the course of a month. Zapier measures usage in terms of "zaps" and "tasks," and I'm still trying to figure out what that means. 

QuickBooks isn't free, but they do have a free app built by Intuit that lets you integrate with eBay, so there shouldn't be any unpleasant surprises from month to month with what you'd expect to pay. 

[vintagecraze50]

I just signed up with Quickbooks. I have a complete headache right now trying to understand the different formats they use than GoDaddy. It’s 15 dollars a month for 1 year, then goes to 25 dollars a month with the discount you get migrating from GoDaddy from their website. I will let you all know more about it as I painfully try to organize my stuff on there.

[vintagecraze50]

It was so well organized and easy to learn from the start. I just switched to Quickbooks and it is a headache at least for me starting out today. 

[newman151blue]

Yeah I gave QuickBooks  a quick look and a quick goodbye. I’ll be going the excel route. 

[erikscardsandgames]

Same for me. I use Excel as well but liked having the ease of GoDaddy. I just signed up for QuickBooks using the GoDaddy discount, and I spent about an hour getting help from a Quickbooks specialist... and I'm still lost. All of my EBay sales that synced into Quickbooks went into the "Banking > App Transactions" section of Quickbooks rather than sales. 

Adding cost of goods sold for items that sell is a pain so far too. 

I'm going to keep using GoDaddy for the next month just to make sure the numbers in GoDaddy match the numbers in QuickBooks, but what a mess. I've also tried to find a similar accounting program to GoDaddy, but have not had any luck. I don't sell enough to make it worthwhile pay an accountant or pay for Quickbooks to manage my finances, so this is really disheartening.

[chapeau-noir]

I already use excel to keep track of other expenses, but it doesn't download reports.  I guess if I wanted to do everything manually from the csv files - problem is, I have more than one site being processed by Godaddy.  I guess I can create larger tables.  It's easy to get spoiled with bookkeeping software.

[divwido]

That's what Quickbooks said too before I got so bogged down in  useless data that I got way behind and quit.  And I worked in Quickbooks for  twenty years. 

I get all the reports I need exactly how I want them.  And I know how to  hide what I don't want to see, but need to keep.

[coronadooutdoor]

I was worried about this too.  In the GoDaddy FAQ for the change they said they will prorate the refund for the unused months. 

[tealt]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

I just switched to Quickbooks and it is a headache at least for me starting out today. 

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Yeah.  Talk about a headache.

Several years ago when my DD worked for Intuit, she encouraged me to try Quickbooks.

I stuck it out for a few months, but I couldn't get my head around double entry bookkeeping (I have a degree in math, but...)   I'd hope Quickbooks' UI is better now, but it doesn't sound like it.

[tssullytacklebox]

Yup me too.

Two problems that I see right away. Quickbooks will only integrate from GoDaddy starting on 3/4/2022. From the looks of it they captured all the expenses from the first of the year but not the sales. Should not be a problem to print a report from GoDaddy from 1/1 to 3/3 to fill in the blanks when it comes time to file taxes and reconcile with the 1099s we will get. The second at least for me is that I integrated the business checking account. It captures all of the expenses outside of Ebay but will the deposits create double sales or does the double entry bookkeeping within Quickbooks take care of it.

GoDaddy was so easy even though I had to manually enter the outside expenses. Just another learning curve I suppose.

[georgestobbard]

I'm curious, why won't Quickbooks integrate data from before March 4th, 2022? Like, is there only a certain number of days or weeks that it can grab? 

Another thing I'd like to know is whether the free eBay Connector app that comes with Quickbooks can go all the way back to the beginning of the calendar year. Are you by chance already using this app, or are you trying to integrate your data in some other way?

I've spent all day deliberating on which bookkeeping alternative I'll choose, now that GoDaddy's days are numbered.  Having a free or cheap app that will seamlessly integrate eBay data all the way back to January 1st would be a very big selling point. 

[tssullytacklebox]

Quickbooks required me to get the free eBay Connector app to use within the accounting program. I had to do it twice because my wife has an eBay store also and we include both within our accounting. I am not sure why it only went back to 3/4/22 but when I tried to look at transactions prior to that there were none. What doesn't make sense to me is the P&L statement shows the same loss for the year as GoDaddy does so how could that be if it captured all expenses without capturing all the sales. Obviously there is something that I am missing - the learning curve cant happen fast enough for me to feel comfortable.