If I do not renew my annual license can I still use Sage 50 Pro 2019.1 version that I own?
Will the entire product stop functioning or will only certain aspects of it cease? Such as the recent PayPal online receivables implementation?
Before anyone asks, I've been using Sage 50 for years and I just don't see a reason to renew my license for the following reasons:
- Price creep. It seems like every year the price goes up another $50 or so, and I just don't see a polished product with sound new features that I actually use to justify that price creep.
- I don't use it for anything payroll related
- Bugs and security issues--at least ones that are important to me--are never fixed. For example:
- In Settings > Company > Email > Gmail web account --> Sage is still using a deprecated API to authenticate Gmail accounts, where the only "workaround" from their own knowledge-base is to compromise your Gmail security. Not to mention this workaround doesn't work if you do not have admin rights to disable the specified security settings. It's been years and Sage still won't use Google's proper API, the OAuth 2.0 protocol, for authenticating! People shouldn't have to do that or install a 3rd party email client as a workaround, Sage should just stop using deprecated API (btw the Gmail API was already deprecated when Sage introduced the feature several years ago).
- In Company > Backup > Scheduled Backup, removal of oldest back when the total number of file exceeds x days, has never worked for me on any version. I've always had to purge them manually until I finally got fed up and made a script do it.
- Scaling on Windows 10 Home/Pro - BUGGY. Sage often decides to break out of scaling mode requiring the app gets relaunched.
- These are a few off the top of my head, and it goes on and on. There are a litany of half-baked features and bugs that never get fixed.
