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Accounting & invoicing: Horrible customer service across multiple platforms

Customers consistently report experiencing poor customer service across various accounting and invoicing platforms. This dissatisfaction is compounded by rising subscription costs and issues with service accessibility.

10 people in 10 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition moderate

Pain pointStable⚠️ CrowdedEvidence: low
Index score
36.7
ahead of 76% of the rest of this market
100.0%signals / 7d
Demand
1.2low
Momentum
52.8moderate
Pain
29.6low
Competition
40.0moderate
lower is better
Monetization
13.5low
Market size
28.3low
Evidence
53.1moderate

The pain

shares of 10 quoted posts

What goes wrong, and for whom

Who
10 people using Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple, Intuit QuickBooks for Business and Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker
What goes wrong
Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
How bad
100% of posts are complaints · pain score low (30/100)
Since
06 Oct 2025 → 19 Sept 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
Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple, Intuit QuickBooks for Business and Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker
Looking for something else
0% want an alternative · 0% 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.
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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

10posts
  • Complaint10100%
02 Oct 202510 posts19 Sept 2026

Sources

10 signals · 1 sources

App Store (English storefronts)10
Only public content is collected, author names are stored as one-way hashes, and every excerpt links back to its original post.

Evidence

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  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·06 Oct 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Customer service Love the app but customer service and support is terrible , I have subscribed since 2017 they’ve been steadily raising prices since that time I think we started at 4.99 and now we are at $20 per month which isn’t ha huge deal since they have made improvements to the…

    Strong complaint
  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·20 Aug 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Intuit QuickBooks for Business — Horrible customer support. Be careful I have been trying to get my Invoicing issues fixed for past 3 weeks. Whatever AI update they released it killed the Keyword filtering in invoicing and the invoices which used to take me 5-8 mins are now taking 30-35 mins. I was on numerous calls…

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·14 Jul 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE After months I still haven’t received my “accepted, and issued” state refund. Customer service is just ai and bots with preset questions and answers, called issuing company and they said it has to be the company holding it or having it stuck processing with…

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·02 Oct 2025·Complaintsource ↗

    Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Horrible customer service They keep raising their prices every few months and forcing customers to upgrade or be left high and dry, even when we were on a supposed “unlimited annual plan” subscription. Customer service response is “sorry, but we are doing this to everyone, so you have…

  • App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·31 May 2026·Complaintsource ↗

    Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Terrible customer service I have used this app for years and also purchased the unlimited version. But as of 2 months ago I can no longer print or email any invoices/ estimates to my clients. All I get is an error message. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app a dozen times now and it’s…

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Problem clusters

Distinct problems aggregated into this opportunity

TurboTax: File Your Tax Return — HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE.
1 mention · 1 person
Love the app but customer service and support is terrible , I have subscribed since 2017…
1 mention · 1 person
Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Terrible customer service.
1 mention · 1 person
Sucks can’t withdraw for over a week now customer service sucks don’t waste your time bet…
1 mention · 1 person
Customer service is horrible.
1 mention · 1 person
Square Invoices: Invoice Maker — Horrible customer service.
1 mention · 1 person
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Number was blocked and when I called from another number the customer service said they b…
1 mention · 1 person
Intuit QuickBooks for Business — Horrible customer support.
1 mention · 1 person
The worst system ever no one to contact and they took double the amount of money for a re…
1 mention · 1 person
Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Horrible customer service.
1 mention · 1 person
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Market and score

Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of

Existing solutions

Products people named in the evidence · high competition does not automatically mean a bad market

Opportunity history

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Why did it move?

Score unchanged at 36.7 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC

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How the score was measured
38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100
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Market size
Distinct people affected10 32
Distinct communities1 17
Distinct sources1 35
Adjacent categories1 32
Regions / languages1 28
Competition
Existing products7 57
New entrants (90d)3 52
Funded players0 0
Market maturity0.4 18
Monetization
Stated willingness to pay0 0
Existing paid products7 57
Pricing complaints0 0
Business context0 0
Momentum
Period-over-period growth-33.3 18
Latest period growth100 96
Sustained trend-2.7 38
Acceleration17.8 71
Pain
Complaint intensity20 20
Negative sentiment-50 50
Complaint frequency100 100
Willingness to switch0 0
Urgency0 0
Willingness to pay0 0
Repeat complaints0 0
Demand
Mention volume1 9
Explicit requests0 0
Distinct people1 10
Alternative searches0 0
Questions asked0 0
Feature requests0 0
Discussion growth0 34
Evidence
Evidence volume10 30
Source diversity1 35
Extraction confidence33 33
Source credibility72 72
Duplicate rate0 100
Freshness4.8 80
Cluster cohesion100 100

Questions about this idea

Is Accounting & invoicing: Horrible customer service across multiple platforms 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?
10 different people described it independently, in 10 mentions, the earliest from 06 Oct 2025 and the most recent from 19 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
Is this problem getting worse?
Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 53/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.

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