QuickBooks for Mac will have your back
September 13, 2017
QuickBooks for Mac will have your back
Score 3 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with QuickBooks for Mac
We assist clients who use quickbooks for mac with bookkeeping, accounting, and taxes.
- 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.
- Having familiarity with the product and Mac OS has provided me access to clients who use the Mac version.
I feel that the online (QBO)version is the platform of the future. With third party companies building solid apps and plugins that integrate with QBO seamlessly, the desktop versions are becoming limited.