Intuit froze QBSE in 2024
Intuit stopped building QuickBooks Self-Employed in 2024 and started steering everyone toward QuickBooks Online's "Solopreneur" tier. No new features since. No bug fixes. The price kept climbing anyway.
So that's the trade: $20+ a month, rising, for software nobody at Intuit is working on. Or $16 a month for ExpenseGhost, which syncs your bank through Plaid and ships new releases every month.
Year-over-year cost
Same job. At least $48 more a year. And only one of them is still being built.
| ExpenseGhost (Solo) | QBSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $16 | $20+ |
| Year 1 | $192 | $240+ |
| Bank sync | Plaid (broad) | Intuit connector (narrow) |
| Investment | Active | Frozen since 2024 |
| Tax tool | Any | TurboTax-optimized |
Switching from QuickBooks
Your whole history comes with you, mapped the way your tax form expects.
Export from QuickBooks and drop the file into the import wizard. It reads straight past Intuit's title rows and lands every transaction on its real Schedule C box. QBSE's own category names never lined up with the IRS lines. Now your imported January looks the way April will.
Pushed onto Solopreneur already? Your vendor and customer lists come over too. Vendors arrive as your 1099 roster, ready to collect W-9s and e-file their 1099-NECs at year end. Customers land as invoice contacts. Filing those 1099s yourself isn't something Solopreneur does.
- Export from QuickBooks: the Tax summary CSV (Settings → Reports), plus your vendor and customer lists if you're on Solopreneur.
- Connect your bank through Plaid so new activity keeps flowing in.
- Drop the files into the import wizard and check the preview.
- Spot-check the first week or two of auto-classification.
- Cancel QuickBooks after a month of overlap.
Want the full walkthrough? Here's how to import from QuickBooks, step by step.
What ExpenseGhost ships
The parts of bookkeeping you actually dread, handled. Your bank feeds in through Plaid. Receipts go in by email forward or web upload, get read, and match themselves to the right transaction. Every expense lands on a specific Schedule C line, the same boxes your form uses, and a live federal + SE tax estimate runs all year, watermarked DRAFT until a human files. Running more than one business? The Team plan keeps separate books for each.
ExpenseGhost provides tax estimates and tax-ready exports. We are not a tax preparer and do not file returns. Estimates are informational — verify every number with a licensed tax professional before filing.