Accounting & invoicing: Confusing and inconsistent layout takes too much digging
Users experience widespread confusion due to unintuitive layouts, hard-to-find settings, and a lack of basic navigation aids like back buttons. Additionally, the user interface suffers from limited functionality and deceptive, constant product upsells.
6 different people have complained about this since 17 Oct 2022, most recently on 12 Oct 2026.
- “it's become confusing without benefit of a back button, and it has almost constant annoying upsell of it's product that is deceiving in it's price displayed.”
- “Square Invoices: Invoice Maker — Confusing and limited.”
- “Basic things that should be easy—like finding merchant services/payment settings—take too much digging, and the layout feels confusing and inconsistent.”
6 people in 6 posts across 2 sources · 0 in the last 30 days, 1 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 6 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Intuit QuickBooks for Business, Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, TurboTax: File Your Tax Return and Xero Accounting for business
- Since
- 17 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Intuit QuickBooks for Business, Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, TurboTax: File Your Tax Return and Xero Accounting for business
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 17% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint583%
- Request117%
Sources
6 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
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…app not the QuickBooks service. The app just sits there upon opening. The opening screen is also confusing. Do I pick one of the products? Does it matter? It’s quicker to log into the online version than wait for the app to load. And, the functionality is quite limited compared to the online version. Matching invoices…
…Tax Return I've used Turbo Tax for decades but this will be my last. it's become confusing without benefit of a back button, and it has almost constant annoying upsell of it's product that is deceiving in it's price displayed. Plus I have to subscribe to Credit Karma if I want to track my tax return status. There is…
FrustratedSquare Invoices: Invoice Maker — Confusing and limited Super confusing and can’t do half the stuff I want to with it
Xero Accounting for business — What have I done Confusing as all hell
…ready using the product. The mobile app only adds to the frustration. Basic things that should be easy—like finding merchant services/payment settings—take too much digging, and the layout feels confusing and inconsistent. Overall, it’s been a discouraging experience and I wouldn’t recommend it if you want transparent…
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Score unchanged at 35.6 · 13 Nov 2026, 03:00 → 04:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Accounting & invoicing: Confusing and inconsistent layout takes too much digging a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 17 Oct 2022 and the most recent from 12 Oct 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: steady — no change the counts can show. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 1 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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