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kezza's avatar
kezza
Cover User
30 days ago

Complaint!!!! MYOB customer services

I am extremely dissatified with myob customer serivces.

For three consecutive days, I made more than a dozen phone calls trying to migrate the accounts of my three companies from PC version to the online version, Despite investing a significant amount of time, my issue remains completely unresolved. the phone number provided in the MYOB email (1300793427) was never answered and repeatedly disconnected. the Alternative numnber listed on the website required wait times of more than three hours on every call. after finally reaching support, i was told to contact the sales department, only to be informed at around 11:00am that the department had already closed, despite the website stating business hour of 9:00am to 5:00pm. What is most unacceptable is that, after hours of waiting and repeatedly explaining my situation, a MYOB Sales Specialist handled the interaction in an unprofessional manner and abruptly ended the call without resolbing my issues. providing any assistance, or offering any next steps. This level of services is completely unacceptable. The combination of unanswered calls, excessive wait times, contradicotory information, poor communicationm, and being disconnected without a resolution demonstrates a serious failure in customer support. After three days of effort and more than a dozen calls, my issues remains unresolved. This experience has caused significant frustration, wasted valuable business time, and disrupted my business operations. 

4 Replies

  • I have the same issue, no answer, no update if migration will happen in time, 

    if i cant use the files as of 17.06.26 this is crazy, we only had a weeks warning, and i have 6 files to migrate... 

  • Gaisy1's avatar
    Gaisy1
    Contributing User
    29 days ago

    I feel your pain, I have been trying since 26/05 to get help. It is absolutely ridiculous that we cannot get a response from MYOB. I have in 2 priority support requests one on 26/05 & another on 02/06, neither have been responded to. Finally spoke to someone last week after being on hold for 3 hours (2nd time on hold for 3 hours in a week) he said he had to transfer me to sales team, I asked if he could get them to call me as I had already spent hours & hours on hold. He said No can only transfer me, but did raise a case number & emailed me in case call dropped out. He transferred me & voice record said unusually busy etc etc & then hung up!!! I then emailed my contact & told him what had happened, he at least got back to me & organised to call me next morning to try again. He rang me next morning at 11am, & again transferred me to Sales team. Voice message said experiencing higher than normal volume of calls etc, please call during business hours & hung up :( :( If 11am isn't business hours what is? I tried calling sales number again this morning & exactly the same result. I am currently on hold on My account chat, supposedly Priority support - what a joke. MYOB are forcing us to take out extra subscriptions for our company files,but are unavailable to help us. Why should we pay extra when we get absolutely no support. Seriously considering changing all our companies to Xero :(

  • Hi kezza​ 

    MYOB is swamped with the decision to force users online. If you don't need online services you can stop the updates as per the below methods:

     

    If you need more than one version of offline MYOB, then this old post from Gavin12345 shows how to turn off auto updates for PC versions - just substitute the version shown with with the current version you are on. Once you have created a Desktop shortcut for the offline files, you can still use the current Desktop shortcut to access and upgrade any online files:

     

    Unfortunately MYOB are not going to change their policy just because users want them to. Now just as there are ways to stop Windows 10 automatic updates, there are also ways to stop MYOB automatic updates, or at least work around them.

    I keep using AR2020.1 even though MYOB has updated itself to AR2021.4

    Take a look where MYOB installs itself - in a folder called AccountRight in a path like this:

    C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Programs\MYOB\AccountRight

    Inside that folder is another folder called app-2021.300.244119 or similar - this contains the files that run MYOB - AR2021.3. 

    Copy this folder app-2021.300.244119 and paste under C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Programs\MYOB\ and rename it to AccountRight 2021.3

    Delete your desktop shortcut and create a new shortcut to HuxleyApplication.exe inside the new folder.

    From this point your shortcut will run AR2021.3 even though MYOB Updates to AR2021.4 or .5 etc

    When you are ready to upgrade, repeat the above and create a folder for AccountRight 2021.4 etc and change the shortcut to the next version.

     

    If you only need one offline version, then Random_nuggets' suggestion as follows will work:

     

    A simpler, more surgical method is as follows:

     

    1. a) Open the folder in which MYOB is installed. Typically this will be in:

    C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Programs\MYOB\AccountRight

     

    1. b) Inside that folder you will find a program file named Update.exe. Simply rename this program file to, say, "Update-disabled.exe". Voila! No more updates!. When AccountRight is next started, it will fail to find its auto-update program, and then carry on running the software as is.

     

    I have successfully tested this approach since the AR 2026.3 release (PC edition).

     

    Cheers

    Liz

    [email protected]