The straight answer

QuickBooks Self-Employed login, and what happened to it

Whether you came here for the QuickBooks Self-Employed login or to find out why it stopped working, here's the whole story, no runaround. The sign-in link comes first, then the explanation.

The short version: the QuickBooks Self-Employed login still works for existing accounts, but Intuit has closed the product to new customers and is moving people to QuickBooks Solopreneur.

Why isn't my QuickBooks Self-Employed login working?

Two different problems get mistaken for each other here. If it's your password, Intuit's reset flow fixes it in a minute. If your account has already been migrated or retired, no password will bring the old QBSE back, because the QBSE login is no longer the door to your data. Check which one you're dealing with before you spend an hour fighting the sign-in screen.

Fastest way to tell: if signing in lands you in QuickBooks Solopreneur rather than the QuickBooks Self-Employed you remember, Intuit has moved you already.

Is QuickBooks Self-Employed gone?

Mostly, and more every month. New signups are closed. If you already subscribe, your account and the mobile app still work, which is why the login above still matters. But Intuit is winding accounts down and steering everyone to QuickBooks Solopreneur. So where did QuickBooks Self-Employed go? It's being folded into Intuit's newer lineup, one account at a time.

Why is QuickBooks Self-Employed going away?

Intuit built a new product, QuickBooks Solopreneur, and named it the successor. Their words: Solopreneur "builds upon the success of its predecessor." Then QBSE closed to new customers, and existing subscribers started getting nudged to migrate. That's how a product retirement works at Intuit. It doesn't end with an announcement. It ends with a login that quietly stops being yours.

This isn't the first time. Intuit shut down ItsDeductible, the donation tracker thousands of people relied on every tax season. Intuit shut down Mint, the most popular budgeting app in America. Each time, users got a short window to grab their data and a push toward whichever product Intuit preferred. QBSE is walking the same path. The lesson isn't that Intuit is evil. It's that your books were built on a product that stopped fitting their plans.

Logged in? Export your data before you log out

This is the part most people learn too late. QBSE only exports two datasets, your transactions and your mileage, and the export buttons only help you while your login still works. Our free QBSE export guide shows every click and includes a printable checklist. Ten minutes now saves your whole tax history.

ExpenseDuck does what you expected QBSE to keep doing

You didn't love QBSE because it was fancy. You loved it because it did four jobs without being asked: pulled in your transactions for a quick business-or-personal swipe, logged your miles automatically, kept everything in Schedule C categories, and told you what to set aside for quarterly taxes. Solopreneur reshuffles those jobs across tiers and bundles. ExpenseDuck just does them, in one plan.

• Transactions flow in, sorted, and you swipe them business or personal
• Mileage tracks itself, and you know the moment a trip fails to record
• Your quarterly federal set-aside number is on screen every day, counting your whole household
• Your QBSE transactions and mileage import in minutes, so your year stays whole

And we've done this rescue before. We're the team behind DeductibleDuck, which caught the ItsDeductible users Intuit walked away from. Now it's QBSE's turn, and ExpenseDuck is opening soon. Early access members get in first.

Still shopping around? Here's our checklist for judging any QuickBooks Self-Employed alternative, including the questions we'd want you to ask us.

ExpenseDuck is not affiliated with Intuit. QuickBooks, ItsDeductible, and Mint are trademarks of Intuit Inc. The login link above goes to Intuit's official sign-in page.