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I’m hoping Mike_MYOB can clarify a point because I’m receiving advice from MYOB Sales that appears different from the information in this thread.
I originally purchased AccountRight/Premier outright many years ago and later accepted MYOB’s free upgrade from Classic/v19 to AccountRight Live. The company file is currently online and was still on AccountRight 2026.5 immediately before PC Edition updated to 2026.6.
Sales has now advised me in writing that “the concept of a perpetual licence is no more there with MYOB even for them who had a perpetual licence”, that an online/live file cannot be put onto Server Edition, and that Server Edition “will stop working very soon”.
Could you please clarify:
-Do MYOB perpetual AccountRight licences still exist/continue to be recognised?
-If a customer who originally purchased AccountRight outright later moved their file online, can MYOB provide a server backup/offline copy of that current online file which can then be operated in Server Edition 2026.5?
-Does Server Edition 2026.5 require an ongoing subscription for a customer with a perpetual licence?
-Is there currently a defined date on which Server Edition will stop functioning, or is the timeframe still unknown?
I’m trying to establish the technical/licensing position before allowing my current company file to move beyond 2026.5, and would appreciate a clear answer.
Keen to hear an answer on this - is there any solutions yet around future snapshot backups being available to be restored - and also these snapshot backups (that we take) being available longer than 6 months.
Dean- - here's my take on answers for the above. As a long MYOB partner -I have had multiple discussions with MYOB around this subject.
- The AR perpetual license exists, but those on older versions are now not supported
- a backup prior to 2026.5 can be restored in the server edition, but future backups will not be able to be restored - and those backups cannot be downloaded from MYOB anyway.
- if you operate the server edition version it needs to be offline, therefore no support available
- no defined date for server edition continuing as they say it's a microsoft issue, and at some point a microsoft update will break it
- Hope this helps you - but looking forward to more information from Mike_MYOB
- I have several older clients continuing to operate offline on server edition.
I believe you are correct with these observations. Microsoft can be a problem but so far I've been able to keep installing and running Classic versions, including v13.5 which is pre-confirmation on Windows 11, despite the claim that they won't work on this version. I have also kept more recent offline files with perpetual licences running in their versions.
