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QuickBooks Online lets you export to Excel at any time. Your books stay readable for one year after you cancel a paid plan. How much history comes with you depends on the tool you move to. Some take years of it, and some take none.

Export rules for each accounting tool

One row for each accounting tool with an exit guide. Facts come from Intuit’s own help pages, read on 31 Oct 2026.

Accounting tool	How you export	Formats	After you cancel	What stays behind
QuickBooks Online	Settings, then Export data. Attachments export from Settings, then Attachments.	Excel files in a zip. Attachments in their own zip.	Read only for 1 year after a paid plan ends. 90 days after a trial.	Bank rules (export only for another QuickBooks company) and the audit log (no export stated).

Sources: Intuit help articles on exporting data and on what happens to your data when you cancel, both updated in August 2026.

How much QuickBooks history each tool takes in

Moving books is mostly about history. This table shows what each tool’s own pages say they bring over from QuickBooks Online.

Tool	History that comes over	Route
Xero	Current and prior fiscal year free. More years may cost extra.	Jet Convert, a Xero migration partner
Puzzle	As many years as needed, posted as journal entries	Puzzle’s own team, $149 one time
Zoho Books	Current financial year recommended, with a historical option	Zoho’s own QuickBooks Online import
Kashoo	Balances and open items only	Kashoo’s own templates
Wave	None. Wave “doesn’t carry over QuickBooks transaction history”	Manual guide
FreshBooks	Checking	Easy Switch, run by partner MMC Convert

Sources: each vendor’s own help or convert page, read 31 Oct 2026. Attachments are not stated by any of them.

Accounting exit guides

Facts come from vendor pages on the date shown. Your own subscription and the live vendor page decide what applies to you.