Renewing Updates & Cloud Services
Updates & Cloud Services (optional, yearly) keeps you on new releases and runs the connected services. The first year is included with your purchase. After that, renewing is your choice — you keep using the version you bought either way.
What it costs and includes
| Tier | From year 2 | Bank logins | Encrypted cloud backup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99/yr | 3 | 3 GB |
| Professional | $129/yr | 5 | 5 GB |
| Accountant | $179/yr | 10 | 10 GB |
Every tier gets every new release, tax table updates, bank feeds, encrypted cloud backup, Cloud Invoicing, and support (priority support on Professional and Accountant). Extra bank logins are $3/month each.
Renewing
Your renewal date is the anniversary of your purchase. Sign in to your account at solidaccounting.com/account to see the date your coverage runs through and to renew.
- Automatic renewal is a switch on your account page, one row per product. Turn it on and your card is charged on the renewal date; turn it off any time and your current year still runs to its end.
- Manual renewal: leave automatic renewal off and renew from your account page when you're ready.
In the app, Settings → License & Updates shows your tier, license key, and the date Updates & Cloud Services runs through, with a Renew… button. You get a reminder in the app before it ends.
If you don't renew
You keep using the version you bought. Your company file, reports, and data stay exactly as they are.
| Keeps working | Stops |
|---|---|
| The version you bought, on the computers where it's activated | New releases |
| Your company file, every report, and exports | Bank feeds (transactions you already imported stay) |
| AI features, including your own AI assistant | Managed encrypted cloud backup — no new backups; existing backups stay restorable, read-only |
| Sending an Accountant's Copy, as a file or through Solid Accounting | Receiving client copies through Solid Accounting (Accountant tier) — a copy saved as a file still works |
| QuickBooks® Desktop migration | Cloud Invoicing |
| Local backups and CSV / OFX / QFX / IIF / PDF statement import |
See Cloud Backup for how restoring works when coverage has ended.
Starting again later
You can renew at any time from your account page. There's no back-pay for the gap: you pay one year from the day you renew. The app then installs the current release (use Help → Check for Updates... if it hasn't already), and connected services resume. Cloud backup and bank feeds keep their settings, so you usually just need to check that they're running.
Refunds and tier changes
- Refunds: see Refunds. A renewal can be refunded on a prorated basis if you cancel within the first 90 days of the renewal year.
- Changing tier: email support@solidaccounting.com.