Can't Create Invoices - QB is Requiring me to Sign Up for the Payment Processing

I can’t create Invoices using QB Online.

No matter how I go at it (Create>Customer>Invoice) or from the Customer Screen… each time I open a blank invoice screen there is a pop up requiring that I link my bank accounts to QB payment processing. 

I don’t want to do this. I will never want to do this.

QB is stuck in a loop. The only two options are to sign up or “Do this later”. 

“Do this later” means QB prompts me the very next attempt to create an invoice, which is blocking me out of *ever* being able to create an invoice.

I pay $250+ per month for this basic software. The glitches and popups for an overpriced application are absurd.

Please tell me how to get out of this f---ing loop, so I can keep my business running, and create some invoices.