// quickbooks → business central
QuickBooks Desktop is winding down. Your next system shouldn't be a leap of faith.
We move companies from QuickBooks Desktop and Enterprise onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on a fixed-price migration, run by a senior delivery team — starting with an assessment that ends in a written proposal within five business days.
The dates, as published. No scare tactics.
None of this means you have to move tomorrow. It means the runway is shrinking on a published schedule — and the more of it you give a migration, the calmer the migration is.
Pro and Premier sales ended
New subscriptions of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Premier ended on September 30, 2024. QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is still sold.
Desktop 2023 services ended
QuickBooks Desktop 2023 lost payroll, payments, bank feeds, and security updates on May 31, 2026 — the file still opens, but the services around it are gone.
Desktop pricing increased
QuickBooks Desktop pricing increased in February 2026 — staying put now costs more than it did, for a product line that is clearly winding down.
What you get that QuickBooks can't do
QuickBooks is bookkeeping software that companies outgrow. Business Central is an ERP — the controls, reporting, and operational depth your close process has been faking with spreadsheets.
Multi-entity and consolidation
Run every company in one system — intercompany transactions, shared master data, and consolidated financials that close without spreadsheet gymnastics or a second QuickBooks file.
Dimensions-based reporting
Tag every transaction with department, project, location — any dimension you define — and slice the P&L by all of them. No 400-line chart of accounts, no export-and-pivot ritual.
Real inventory and warehousing
Multiple locations, lot and serial tracking, landed cost, and costing methods that survive an audit — instead of a single quantity-on-hand field and a workaround culture.
Approval workflows
Purchase and payment approvals with amount limits, enforced by the system before posting — not a courtesy email that may or may not get read before the check goes out.
An audit trail that holds
Postings are permanent and attributable — who, what, when. Corrections post as corrections, instead of edits that quietly rewrite last quarter behind your back.
Native Microsoft 365 and Power BI fit
Business Central lives in the Microsoft stack you already pay for — Excel that publishes back to the ledger, customer context inside Outlook, and Power BI on live data.
How the migration works
Four steps, each with a deliverable you can hold. No dollar figure appears on this page because every number we quote is fixed and arrives in writing — that's the point.
- 01
Migration Assessment — fixed fee, quoted in writing
A senior team reviews your current QuickBooks file and processes, maps what migrates, what archives, and what gets rebuilt — and hands you a fixed-price implementation proposal you can act on, whether or not you act on it with us.
- 02
Fixed-scope implementation — 8–16 weeks typical
Configuration, scoped customization, and role-based training, delivered by the same team that ran the assessment — on the fixed price from the proposal, with anything new arriving only through a written change order.
- 03
Validated data cutover
Master records, open transactions, and opening balances move with reconciliation sign-off before go-live. How much historical depth comes along is a scoping decision you make with the numbers in front of you — not a default.
- 04
30-day hypercare, then hour-anchored support
The go-live team stays on for 30 days of hypercare. After that, support runs as an hour-anchored retainer with a real customer portal — tickets, approvals, and invoices in one place.
// two in the room
Every engagement runs with a named project manager and senior developers — at least two of us in every meeting, from discovery to go-live. The team that scopes your migration is the team that delivers it.
Honest answers, before the call
Can we keep our QuickBooks history?+
Yes. Your QuickBooks file stays yours, and most companies keep it as a read-only archive for reference and audit. The standard migration brings master records, open transactions, and opening balances into Business Central; migrating deeper transaction history is possible and is priced as its own line in the assessment — so you decide how much history is worth carrying.
What does a QuickBooks-to-Business Central migration cost?+
We don't publish project figures — every engagement is quoted as a fixed price, in writing, after the Migration Assessment, so the scope and the number arrive together. Licensing is public arithmetic: Business Central licenses through our CSP at Microsoft's list rates — $80 per user/month for Essentials, $110 for Premium, and $8 for Team Members.
How long does the migration take?+
A typical QuickBooks-to-Business Central implementation runs 8–16 weeks from kickoff to go-live. Entity count, data-migration depth, and integrations move the timeline — the assessment gives you a written schedule next to the fixed price.
We rely on Enterprise features and add-ons — advanced inventory, job costing, field tools. Do we lose those?+
Most of what QuickBooks Desktop needs add-ons for is native in Business Central: multi-location inventory, approvals, job and project costing, assemblies. Where a genuine gap remains, there's usually an AppSource app — and where there isn't, we build scoped AL extensions in-house. The assessment's fit-gap names which of the three covers each item before you commit.
What about our accountant?+
Business Central has free External Accountant access, so your CPA can work in the system directly — no extra seat to buy, no exported backups to email around at month-end close.
What happens after go-live?+
The team that built your implementation stays on it. Thirty days of hypercare are part of the scope, and ongoing support runs as an hour-anchored retainer with a customer portal — tickets, approvals, and invoices in one place, handled by the people who know your tenant.
Request a migration assessment
Tell us where you are today — entity count, user count, and what's bolted onto QuickBooks. We'll come back with the assessment scope and a fixed fee, quoted in writing, before any work begins.
A senior team member replies within one business day.