QuickBooks Simple Start 2008 UK Download // POS systems

I own QuickBooks 2007. I have invoices to send out today and I cannot because QuickBooks has blocked my ability to send email invoices in order to force me to upgrade to their 2010 product.

See, when a QuickBooks user tries to email an invoice, the QuickBooks product makes an Internet connection to one of their servers prior to creating the PDF and email to be sent using client information within QuickBooks itself. The problem now is when Quickbooks contacts the Intuit server, I receive a web page with the following text:

"Important! On May 31, 2010, the Intuit Billing Solution for QuickBooks and the free e-mailing service will no longer work with your version of QuickBooks 2007 software. In order to sign up for Intuit Billing Solution or the free e-mailing service, you must upgrade to a more recent version of QuickBooks. Discontinuing older versions of QuickBooks allows us to focus resources on supporting more current products, which are used by the vast majority of QuickBooks customers.

The result: a better customer experience for millions of QuickBooks users. To learn more about Intuit's discontinuation policy for all QuickBooks software, please visit

With Intuit Billing Solution, save time and make it easy for your customers to pay you faster. Upgrade to QuickBooks 2010 today and take advantage of the following offers: Save 20% when you upgrade to QuickBooks Simple Start, Pro or Premier 2010* Save 25% when you upgrade to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 10.0*Plus, get free standard shipping with your upgrade! Offers end on May 31, 2010.

Intuit Billing Solution can help businesses that invoice their customers get paid faster with less time and effort, by allowing customers to pay you online. Here's a quick look at what it does:

1) Helps get you paid faster by giving customers access to a password-protected web
site where they can pay by credit card 24 hours a day, regardless of how you deliver
your invoices - mail, fax or e-mail. **
2) Service your customers better with an always-on Web site where they can pay you
by credit card, find information about their account or send you a question via e-mail.

3) Easy to set up and use because all the features are integrated with QuickBooks.

* Offer of 20% off is good towards purchase of QuickBooks Simple Start, Pro or Premier 2010 and is available to QuickBooks Simple Start, Pro or Premier 2007 customers only. Offer of 25% off is good towards purchase of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 10.0 and is available to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 7.0 customers only. Both offers end on May 31, 2010. Free standard shipping with upgrade offers. Terms, conditions, pricing, features,

support and service are subject to change at any time without notice.

* Online payment requires a subscription to the QuickBooks Merchant Service. Additional fees are assessed by payment providers for online payments. Terms, conditions, pricing, features and service subject to change.

Missing in the text are the graphic buttons for "close and buy online". Those are my only two options. There is no continue that will allow me to send my invoices as usual.

This change that Intuit has implemented effectively renders their product that I purchased useless ahead of their published May 31, 2010 date.

Calling Intuit tech support is of no use because their options for me are to either upgrade or safe each invoice to PDF, create a new email message, look up the client's email address and type it in, attach the PDF to said invoice, and then email said invoice.