How to turn off review and charge in QuickBooks
Interface updates place un-disableable payment features directly into the invoicing screen, causing long-time users to accidentally trigger unintended ACH or E-Check transactions before clients even see the bill. Because software providers fail to include an option to disable the feature despite constant complaints, businesses face forced transactions and constant workflow disruptions.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since July 2026.
- This comes up 169.7× more often in r/QuickBooks than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Logging into the separate Quickbooks Payments application to issue refundsDid this help you?
- 2Switching to alternative accounting software like FreshbooksDid this help you?
- 3Turning off stored payment methods manuallyDid this help you?
- 4Checking desktop dashboards under Reports > Payments > Transaction Status and filtering for Canceled transactions.Did this help you?
- 5Checking payment settings to disable the feature manuallyDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“our office employees (some using Quickbooks since 2004) and they have accidentally clicked this new 'REVIEW AND CHARGE' feature that you have made on the invoices screen multiple times, sometimes forcing an ACH or E-Check payment that wasn't even intended.”source ↗
“Imagine just taking the money from the client when the client hasn’t even seen the bill yet!”source ↗
“They pushed this on me months ago. Still no function to turn off despite near daily feedback. It’s infuriating.”source ↗
Where this came up
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