We use Reckon Accounts Plus 2016 and have a lifetime license. We have been emailed recently from Reckon saying "From 30th April 2021 you will no longer be able to re-activate or re-register your Reckon Accounts desktop software and will have read-only access." They want to force us to upgrade to a subscription. We purchased an outright license, and now they say the will disable it to read only as from 30th April! How can Reckon feel this is ethical or at least an acceptable action? Any suggestions? Any alternative products we should look at?
Has anyone else had an email like this?
They say a "non-supported version of Reckon Accounts it can be a liability" well that should be up to us to decide if we want to carry the risk rather than have Reckon disable our software and force us to pay a yearly subscription. Even Microsoft Software allows you to keep using old software purchased outright even if it is out-of-date. Its fauldant to sell an outright license for a product and then 5 years later to disable it! I am thinking it might be written into the code and intentional from the start, that they design it like this and know full well when they sell the lifetime license that it will only work for 5 years.
Is there a way around this? Is the disable (read-only) action based on a date time stamp stored on the computer?
Thanks for your help or suggestions. Karen.
