QuickBooks Online Spanish offer terms: what happens when the promo ends

Community desk report: small businesses shopping for accounting and invoicing software keep arriving at QuickBooks Online’s Mexico signup page and asking what the advertised offers really commit to. The accepted answer in the thread behind this report is the offer terms themselves. We read the document end to end. Here is what it promises, what it declines to state, and where the costs hide.

Prices can change at any time

The terms open with a broad reservation: Intuit may change prices, features, support, and service at any time. That sentence frames everything that follows. Near the close, the document repeats that discounts, prices, and conditions are all subject to change. Nothing you agree to at signup locks in a rate sheet.

This explains an omission readers notice right away. The terms never print monthly figures for Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, or Advanced. Every clause defers to the base price in effect at a given moment, so any amount quoted in an advertisement or a forum post is a snapshot, not a promise.

How does the 30-day trial end?

The free trial covers your first 30 days of subscription, counted from the enrollment date. To keep working in the software after that, you must supply a valid credit card for authorization. You are then billed the monthly rate in effect at that moment for the services you selected.

Watch the phrasing. The trial clause points to the rate in effect when the trial ends, not to any advertised promotional price. The plan you choose during signup is the plan that starts billing, so pick with the post-trial cost in mind.

What happens when the promotional price expires?

Discounts apply to the monthly price of Simple Start, Essentials, Plus, or Advanced from the moment you register. Once the promotional period concludes, the current base monthly price takes over. Charging is automatic each month and continues until you cancel.

Cancellation is always available and never refundable. If you cancel, you receive no money back; you keep access through the end of the period you already paid for. Cancel just after a monthly charge and you still get that month’s use. The timing of your cancellation is the only lever these terms give you.

Is the annual plan a better deal?

Prepaying 12 months earns a discount off the rates in effect. The terms do not publish the percentage, and because the underlying rates can move, the savings are not a number you can fix in advance. What is fixed is the structure: one upfront payment covering a year.

The refund rule matches the monthly plan, at larger scale. Cancel inside a prepaid term and no refund is due, though full access continues for the remaining months. Unless you cancel first, the subscription renews automatically at the 12-month mark, at the retail price then current, charged to the billing details on file.

One relief valve exists on both billing cycles. You can move up or down between the online plans at any time, so an oversized plan can be trimmed without waiting out the year.

Who qualifies for the 30 percent offer?

The largest number in the document is 30 percent off, held for 24 months, on Simple Start, Essentials, or Plus. Conditions apply. You must register at least two subscriptions under one email address. Only new and trial customers are eligible, and businesses headquartered in the United States are excluded, which fits the Mexico-facing page this offer accompanies.

Note the plan list here. Advanced appears in the general promotional clause but not in this volume offer, so the deepest discount does not reach the top tier.

The takeaways before you sign up

Two habits protect you under these terms. First, calendar the dates that matter: day 30 of the trial, the end of any promotional period, and month 12 of an annual term. Every costly surprise in this document lands on a date you can predict.

Second, weigh the volume offer if you need more than one seat. Thirty percent across 24 months is the only substantial figure the vendor commits to paper, and it comes with a clear eligibility fence. Everything else can change, a point the terms make twice.