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I have a service business. QuickBooks Pro for Mac works well for my business. I create invoices while I'm servicing my customers. I spend 95% of my time on the road. It allows me to be accurate with payables and receivables, spending less time on accounting. In turn I can spend more time with customers.QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac (Mac)
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Intuit claims they spend lots of money supporting the Mac version, but you couldn't tell from QuickBooks Pro 2007. This is essentially the same software they came out with six years ago, and has all the same limitations.
The immediate problem for those considering purchasing this today is that QB Pro 2007 crashes when trying to export to Excel 2008, the latest version of both pieces of software. That's right... Intuit doesn't support the world's largest software publisher's largest-selling product. And they advertise that they do (see the claims about easy export to Excel above). Yet their own Mac support discussion boards are filled with unanswered requests for a solutions to this problem. When you click on "Export to Excel" in a report window it crashes Excel 2008.
I spent an hour on the phone with Intuit and they blame Microsoft. Microsoft blames them. We've been here before, right?
Intuit needs to fix their product, and where is v.2008 with all the features that the Windows or Vista version has?
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I realize there are quite a few negative reviews here, but I have had nothing but good result from this program. My wife and I run a consulting firm and the fact that Quickbooks has a consulting firm set-up feature sold me on it. We do not need to track sales or inventory, and Quickbooks was able to make that distinction and set up our business just the way it needed to be. The Business Walkthrough is a great feature and made setting up shop very simple.
I was a little intimidated in the beginning, since I have little accounting experience. But I printed out and read the section on Consulting from the help document and everything became more clear to me. Now that I have a better grasp of the features I am much more comfortable with the program. It reminds me a lot of Quicken I use for personal finance, which helps with the comfort factor.
I downloaded the Trial first, and was able to perform all functions and even set up the company. I wanted to see if it would afford everything I needed, and it did. I would recommend people try it first, to see if it gives you everything you are looking for.
My only complaint is the update pricing, or lack there of. Intuit should offer discounts to it's loyal customers.
I would recommend this program to anyone in the consulting field due to the defined business model it can spit out. I like not having all the extra accounts and expenses I don't need to track.
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The only thing worse that Quickbooks for Windows is Quickbooks for Mac. As users of both products, I agree completely with the multiple negative reviews posted earlier. Intuit's refusal to support bugs within their software is unethical. I'd say criminal, but since we all have to agree to a disclaimer that no piece of software comes with any guarantee to do anything, anytime, anywhere, there's no legal recourse.
When are the consumer protection groups going to wake up and go after software companies for their refusal to take responsibility for their products, with Intuit at the head of the line? When are we consumers going to wake up and tell our accountants to take their requirement we use Quickbooks and give us some real alternatives?
I suppose a big part of the problem is that there aren't any decent alternatives. Quickbooks seems to have killed most of them off - but you might take a look at the open source GnuCash program. Perhaps it can morph into a Quickbooks alternative.
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I switched from Money to Quickbooks Pro in 2007. It was a tough transition but worth it for my companies. Now in 2008, I've moved from Windows to Mac in a desperate bid to get computers that work reliably and meet our needs without paying homage to "Emperor Gates". The transfer from Quickbooks Pro Windows to Quickbooks Pro Mac has been absolutely painful. This is largely due to the substandard product that Intuit developed for the Mac. There is no accountant's copy (unless you're willing to send it off and then shut down all record keeping, invoicing or accounting while you wait for the file to come back), you cannot share files between more than one computer on the same network, the menus are not as easy to navigate (some options are actually buried 2 or 3 layers deep), the forms are not as easily customizable or turn out looking as clean/professional, and you can't customize the main screen so you have easy access to the features you use day-to-day. It's just generally more difficult to use on Mac and makes using the product even more challenging, and less worth while, then it was in Windows. I feel there should be more disclosure from Intuit about the serious discrepancy between the Windows and Mac versions of the "same" product. I honestly cannot recommend this product to anyone who does more then basic record keeping or works with a professional accountant. This is not really a professional, small business product.
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