SUNSETVAULT
For bookkeeping & CPA firms holding QuickBooks Desktop files

Your QuickBooks Desktop is dying.
Your clients' history doesn't have to.

Intuit is sunsetting QuickBooks Desktop. Lapsed subscriptions go view-only for 12 months - then your files are sealed until you pay again. And nobody pays a monthly QuickBooks Online seat to keep a dead client's books. SunsetVault freezes every client file, every year, every attachment into a searchable archive that opens forever. No QuickBooks required.

Reserve a founding spot - $99/file
First 10 firms. Runs on your machine - client files never leave your office. Full refund if your file won't archive. Questions first? Email me.

The clock is not hypothetical

May 31, 2026QuickBooks Desktop 2023 support ended. Already past.
Sept 30, 2027QBD 2024 - the final version Intuit will ever release - loses support.
12 monthsof view-only access after a Desktop subscription lapses (2022+ versions). Then the file is sealed until you pay again.

Every firm has the same plan: keep one old PC with QuickBooks on it. That plan works until the PC dies, an update breaks the install, or activation servers stop answering. After that, rescuing data from a .QBW file is a $500–$2,000-per-file consulting job.

An archive made today costs a tenth of that - and can't rot.

How it works

  1. You run the archiver on your machine - I send the tool and a 5-minute walkthrough video. Open the client file in your QuickBooks, click once, approve QuickBooks' own permission dialog. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, ever. (Prefer a human alongside? I hold evening walkthrough sessions twice a week - included for founding firms.)
  2. Extraction through Intuit's official SDK - the same supported interface QB integrations have used for 20 years. Every transaction, every year, verified against QuickBooks' own report totals.
  3. You keep a self-contained archive folder: structured data + a read-only search viewer that runs with no QuickBooks, no install, no subscription. Copy it to backups like any folder.

Inside each archive:

  • All transactions, all years, all types - with full line-item detail
  • Chart of accounts, customers, vendors, items - complete lists
  • Attached documents, copied wholesale
  • Payroll summary reports
  • Excel/CSV export of anything, drill-down search of everything

Founding-firm pricing

$99 per company file - first 10 firms
Includes the walkthrough video, email support, and an evening live session if you want one. Full refund if your file won't archive. Afterward: $199 per file, or $999 for a 25-file firm bundle. Compare: post-mortem data rescue runs $500–$2,000 per file.
Claim a founding spot

Questions accountants actually ask

Client files contain SSNs and bank numbers. I'm not sending them anywhere.
Agreed - so don't. The archiver runs entirely on your machine; there is no upload, no cloud, no copy I keep. Watch your firewall while it runs if you like - the only thing it talks to is your own QuickBooks.
I'm not technical. What if I get stuck?
The walkthrough video covers every click, support is a reply away, and founding firms can grab an evening session where we do it together. If your file won't archive, you get your money back - simple as that.
Is this even allowed?
It's your client's data, read through Intuit's official, documented SDK. Nothing is cracked, patched, or reverse-engineered.
We're moving to QuickBooks Online - why bother?
For live clients, do. But migration caps at 750,000 targets (big multi-year files must be condensed first), the conversion drops things like the audit trail, and every migrated company is a paid QBO subscription forever. Nobody pays monthly for a client who left in 2019 - the archive is for those files.
What about the audit trail?
QuickBooks doesn't expose it to any integration, so it isn't in the archive - you'll hear that honestly from us rather than discover it later. What is included: every posted transaction, list, and attachment, verified by count.
My QuickBooks already won't open. Can you still help?
The archiver needs a working QuickBooks today - that's the whole point of doing this now, while yours still opens.