QuickBooks Down Error Code 503

Reports are coming in that QuickBooks servers are down and preventing users from accessing their company files on Intuit hosted solutions products such as QuickBooks Online. The error users are receiving is

Error Code 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable)

This is a server side error, meaning that the users themselves are not the ones experiencing the issue. As with most service outages, we will continue to monitor and see when Intuit will address this new issue.

First Posted at 11:52AM EST on 08/29/2017