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QuickBooks Desktop for Mac

Overview

What is QuickBooks Desktop for Mac?

Quickbooks Desktop for Mac is an accounting software designed for Mac users. It is designed to integrate with Apple iCloud. It provides core accounting features in line with the rest of the Quickbooks Desktop product line.

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Piece of cake accounting!

7 out of 10
March 07, 2020
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Popular Features

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  • Standard reports (22)
    10.0
    100%
  • Bank reconciliation (24)
    8.8
    88%
  • Accounts payable (24)
    8.1
    81%
  • Accounts receivable (23)
    8.1
    81%
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What is QuickBooks Desktop for Mac?

Quickbooks Desktop for Mac is an accounting software designed for Mac users. It is designed to integrate with Apple iCloud. It provides core accounting features in line with the rest of the Quickbooks Desktop product line.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

10
Avg 7.5

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

6
Avg 7.0

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

10
Avg 7.9

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

10
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

5.8
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

7.7
Avg 7.0

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.3
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is QuickBooks Desktop for Mac?

Quickbooks Desktop for Mac is an accounting software designed for Mac users. The software allows Mac users to integrate Quickbooks with their iCloud-based applications and data. Desktop for Mac provides the core accounting features as the rest of the Quickbooks Desktop line. These features include contractor management, sales, time, and expense tracking, invoicing, email tracking, and inventory management. Desktop for Mac also provides a library of prebuilt reports, plus exportability to Numbers or Excel. The software also enables user permissions control for financial information security.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Quickbooks Desktop for Mac is an accounting software designed for Mac users. It is designed to integrate with Apple iCloud. It provides core accounting features in line with the rest of the Quickbooks Desktop product line.

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Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Benefit plan administration and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop for Mac are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Accounts are easily created and managed.
  • Reports are easy to create and read.
  • Data entry is simple and easy to accomplish.
  • The overall function and features are satisfactory.
  • There was a problem sharing over the internet which forced me to move to online Quickbooks.
  • Getting to a customer service rep is not easy.
Daniel Shatzkes CEO Entrepreneur, Manufacturer, Musician | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adding customers, vendors, employees, etc. is pretty simple and quick.
  • The reports you can generate are excellent and in credibly helpful - get as birdseye view or detailed as you like.
  • On the support side - there has always been discrepancies between QB Desktop for Mac vs. Windows and there's just a lot more out there for Windows Desktop. Plus, Intuit has not been shy in making clear that they'd rather everyone migrate over to QuickBooks Online (which I tried and is terrible), and so the support for Desktop seems to be getting minimized or put by the wayside.
  • In the most recent version (2020) the program crashes WAY too much. I've never had this problem before and I'm hoping that they release updates to fix it.
Guy G. Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • All encompassing financial tool
  • Online Tutorials and YouTube self help videos
  • Strong online repository for seeking answers to basic questions
  • Total Cost for Ownership
  • The user interface is not as intuitive as the PC version of the software.
  • QuickBooks Desktop for Mac was very late in publishing the new edition of software
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • A plethora of good short cuts.
  • Ease of posting journal entries.
  • The advanced search feature.
  • Managing multiple entities.
  • Freezing during long journal entries.
  • Inability to import journal entries.
  • Meant for smaller businesses, we outgrew QuickBooks.
Darcy Knapp, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manages accounts.
  • Snapshot of the current status of accounts.
  • Recurring templates/invoices and charges.
  • Ability to view reports with 1 click.
  • Sometimes it can be slow to load.
  • More shortcuts or the ability to create my own shortcuts would be nice.
  • Bigger fonts by default, my eyes are getting old!
Ann Mulhern | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • As long as you have extensive experience with it, it will print checks properly.
  • The strengths would only be forcing people to continue the pain due to longevity in the market.
  • Thinking of all ages of people who have to use the product (i.e. using light gray type on white; light blue on blue). No one cares about color changes. They are distracting and when you can't read through them they are a waste, NOT a new enhancement for the upgrade.
  • Laying things out together for each task - all banking info here; all payables here; and checks should include which type of check to print. Preferences should be included for each type of task, not stored a Google search away. Why aren't all preferences for a service grouped together?
  • QuickBooks search is weak. Unless I can word what I need as they do, my question will be answered in Google not QuickBooks.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reconciling my bank accounts is made easy by automated bank connections and rules for re-occurring transactions. I can also transfer between connected bank accounts making sure to not double up on transfers or payments.
  • I love that I can access Quickbooks Desktop via a web browser, iOS, and the desktop app. I live in a mobile world so having the ability to crossover is vital.
  • Payroll. One simple feature that allows me to track employee and employer taxes, make payments, and automate the entire process. All I have to do is hit approved and the rest is done for me. I love it!
  • One regular bug I experience with the desktop app is the "shoe came untied" error. It seems to happen all the time but is usually fixed with a restart. Just a minor annoyance.
  • There is so much QB can do, it's hard to know how to use it. I'm no professional accountant so I'm not familiar with most of the reporting and functions that are useful - so better training and support for noobs would be helpful. That said, I've noticed a ton of resources, I just haven't taken advantage of them - so it's probably more user error than QB's problem - though I suppose I haven't felt that learning new things within the app are the easiest.
  • I have had a specific error where one of my banks is only importing 1 credit card, rather than all 5 of the cards on the same account. I think this is a Quickbooks error, however, it's possible it may be from the bank side. This is an issue I wish Quickbooks would help resolve.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The program is very easy to learn, the interface is incredibly user-friendly and there are tons of free resources and tutorials available
  • It makes managing payroll really easy for the employee and accountant on staff. No more lost time sheets or late paychecks!
  • Managing bills and paying them has become streamlined and it's great having everything in one place so we don't lose track of things.
  • It's great at getting the timesheets from employee to accountant but the time sheet side of things could be made a little easier to use. Some of our older employees have had a difficult time adjusting to the format.
  • More in-program help/tutorials would be great and expedite the learning process. YouTube and other online resources are great but can be hard to track down in the heat of the moment. We'd love to see some easier help resources within the program that are easy to access.
Shelby Bowden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Great for exporting tax information.
  • Quality data storage and management.
  • Useful mainly only for intuit products.
  • Often slow and becomes clogged if data amount is too much.
  • Integration across the company is not ideal.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Syncs with my financial institutions
  • Runs seamlessly on my Mac systems
  • Keeps all of my financial information in one easy space
  • Makes Tax season a breeze
  • QB for Mac is not nearly as feature rich as the Windows Version
  • QB for Mac has recently FORCED users to password protect all databases. They SHOULD allow a preference to disable rather than imposing their workflow on the end user. The PW is in my environment [and this step is] unnecessary and a cumbersome waste of time.
  • Mac version can occasionally be a bit buggy
November 18, 2018

QB Mac App Top Notch

Billy Rivet | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It now works very much like a web browser and allows for tabs and additional windows. I use this feature every time I'm working in the app.
  • It's fast and very stable
  • Any concerns I have would be with QuickBooks Online and its functionality and not the app. The web version is the same as the app so when I do need to use the web version on a PC, the familiarity is there to not miss a beat.
John Cruet Jr., AIA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Track income
  • Track expenses
  • Generate reports
  • Aids in balancing checkbooks- reconciling
  • Interface with MacOS is good
  • Deleting accounts which have been paid off is difficult
  • Upgrade path is costly
  • After five years, I want to delete all book keeping data. Difficult to do with QuickBooks.
Andrew Newman CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is a robust desktop tax software.
  • QuickBooks for Mac has grown up and is no longer considered the orphan cousin of its PC cousin.
  • QuickBooks for Mac now offers most of the features that customers using the PC product are familiar with.
  • Easily convertible to PC for your CPA's convenience.
  • Not much to say in this area, but I caution users who convert their data to PC versions for tax purposes to carefully compare accrual/cash versions between the two software because they may not match.
  • The Mac versions are not comparable to the PC versions. QuickBooks 2017 for Mac will not necessarily have the same features as the PC version.
  • The biggest challenge for most desktop users is what I call version error. That is where clients have one version of the data on one computer and then back it up and use it on another PC. Every year I hear stories about how this resulted in the loss of data because the user forgot to restore the most current version of the data.
Steve Muench | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Invoicing made easy. It's easy to customize invoices as well as email them in a batch. Great time saver.
  • Reconciliation of bank accounts made easy. It's simplified with the ability of linking bank accounts to QB & matching bank transactions with those transactions posted through QB.
  • Creating reports & customizing reports for my CPA is also done with ease.
  • QB support team has been very easy and friendly to work with as I have had many questions that I need help with from them They have been able to identify my problems and offer solutions.
  • The Mac application has multiple flaws. At 1st I used the app exclusively but now only launch QB through my web browser.
  • Although I have found the reconciliation of monthly bank statements to be easy I did experience 1 month that QB posted payments twice for 3 different batches of credit card payments. The help desk had never seen anything like it before. Hopefully I never see it happen again.
  • The migration of accounts & customers from my previous accounting software was not at all easy and indeed was very time consuming and tedious.
Spud Marshall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Recurring invoices.
  • Multi-platform support.
  • Simplified reports.
  • Improvement for marking receipts as billable or reimbursable - it currently has a few user glitches and unnecessary extra steps.
  • Forecasting tools to visualize anticipated cashflow.
  • Being able to file quarterly tax reports with the pro account (currently it is only offered in the solopreneur version).
March 18, 2016

QB for Mac

Kimberly Devane | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Create client Invoices
  • Receive payments from clients
  • Track expenses
  • Print Business checks
  • Yearly updates should be at a discounted rate.
  • Should not have to pay for phone Support
  • Quickbooks should offer discounts on supplies (checks, etc).
Ann Shallcross | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Ease of entering vendor invoices as well as credits
  • Simplicity of reconciling accounts
  • One problem I found unexpectedly was that when you are using the Multi-User feature, your reporting is not 100% accurate which can cause problems at times
  • I've upgraded my computer recently to OS 10.7 and have had a few times when my Quick Books quits unexpectedly. This is frustrating and also makes me nervous that I'm losing information
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