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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An Old Timer Reviews QuickBooks Desktop for Mac
Piece of cake accounting!
QuickBooks Desktop for Mac is not the greatest - but if you already know how to do bookkeeping it's a pretty good option.
QuickBooks Desktop for Mac Version - Invest your time to go through the online training and use YouTube self help videos.
QuickBooks ideal for small businesses not mid to large-sized businesses
QuickBooks is the Key to Business Growth and Long Term Success
Another Mac QuickBooks upgrade, another big disappointment.
The Only Accounting Software Worth Recommending for Growing Businesses
A Great Accounting Option for Small Companies
QuickBooks will streamline your accounting, just like it did mine!
The Workhorse for Mac Bookkeeping
Great for businesses
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- Standard reports (22)10.0100%
- Bank reconciliation (24)8.989%
- Accounts payable (24)8.282%
- Accounts receivable (23)8.282%
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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.
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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.
- 10Pay calculation(9) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 10Benefit plan administration(6) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 10Direct deposit files(8) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 10Salary revision and increment management(5) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 10Reimbursement management(7) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 6API for custom integration(7) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 6Plug-ins(10) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
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.
- 10Single sign-on capability(20) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 10Role-based user permissions(17) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 10Dashboards(19) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 10Standard reports(22) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 10Custom reports(22) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 8.2Accounts payable(24) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 8.2Accounts receivable(23) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 6.2Cash management(18) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 8.9Bank reconciliation(24) Ratings
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
- 6.2Expense management(20) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 6.2Time tracking(12) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 6.2Fixed asset management(14) Ratings
This includes the ability to track fixed assets (e.g., laptops), including location, check-in and check-out, maintenance scheduling, audit history, specialized property tax period reports, cost and depreciation.
- 1Multi-currency support(10) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 6.2Multi-division support(11) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 6.2Regulations compliance(10) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 8.2Electronic tax filing(15) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 6.2Self-service portal(13) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 1Global Financial Support(7) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 6.2Primary and Secondary Ledgers(13) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 6.2Intercompany Accounting(14) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 1Localizations(6) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 6.2Journals and Reconciliations(17) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 6.2Enterprise Accounting(5) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 6.2Configurable Accounting(9) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 6.2Centralized Rules Framework(9) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 6.2Standardized Processes(13) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6.2Inventory tracking(14) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 7.8Automatic reordering(10) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 7Location management(9) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 10Manufacturing module(8) Ratings
The software helps track and manage raw materials, work-in-progress items, and finished goods.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 10Pricing(17) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 10Order entry(16) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 10Credit card processing(17) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 10Cost of goods sold(16) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 5.7Order Orchestration(6) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 6.7End-to-end order visibility(7) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 5.6Order exception Resolution(6) Ratings
Monitor fulfillment tasks and resolve issues, view and evaluate varios options via what-if analysis and define and enforce change order rules
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(1-25 of 32)Best Accounting Purchase for any Business.
- Reports
- Detailed summaries
- Customer history
- sales invoices
- detailed receipts
QuickBooks for the Pros! Easy, fun and best software ever!
- Downloading Bank & credit card account transactions
- Easy to access reports
- Easy to record transactions
- It needs improvement in integration with other softwares
- It needs non-profit improvement
DON'T BUY QUICKBOOKS FOR MAC
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An Old Timer Reviews QuickBooks Desktop for Mac
- 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.
Piece of cake accounting!
I use Quickbooks Payroll for multiple organizations to process all aspects of payroll. I have used it for our employees. I also use it to prepare for our monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for government tax agencies. It makes my life so much easier to have all my clients in the same place. I can plan my own work with reminders and to-do lists for my clients. The added features are amazing!
- Quickbooks payroll
- iCalendar
- Mac OS address books
- Customer support
- Interface
- Credit card processing
When it comes to customer support it was quite frustrating to wait for a representative to help me. It took me over 20 minutes, but the good thing was my issue resolved.
QuickBooks Desktop for Mac is not the greatest - but if you already know how to do bookkeeping it's a pretty good option.
- 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.
QuickBooks Desktop for Mac Version - Invest your time to go through the online training and use YouTube self help videos.
- 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
- 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.
QuickBooks is the Key to Business Growth and Long Term Success
- 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!
Another Mac QuickBooks upgrade, another big disappointment.
- 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.
The Only Accounting Software Worth Recommending for Growing Businesses
- 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.
A Great Accounting Option for Small Companies
- 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.
- 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.
The Workhorse for Mac Bookkeeping
- 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
Great for businesses
- Fast and simple to use.
- Prints our checks for AP.
- No access on mobile devices.
- More informative reporting with graphs and pie charts [would be nice to have].
QB Mac App Top Notch
- 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.
QuickReview of QuickBooks
- Barcode swiping
- Tracking our daily bank account activity.
- Bookkeeping for tax purposes
- Tracking of inventory
- Tutorials for onboarding might be useful. Maybe more videos.
Our Full-featured Accounting Software
- 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.
Some firms like mine may not be able to take advantage of the vast arrays of features it has.
QuickBooks for Mac will have your back
- 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.
QuickBooks Mac is a hybrid fruit, created by grafting the best bit of QuickBooks Pro and QuickBooks Online.
- Ease of use
- Support
- User friendly
- Training videos
- Quickbooks user community
- Website integrations
QuickBooks For Mac - Use It And Never Go Back
- 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.
If you start from day one using QB in your business it should be great. If you are going to transition from another accounting program to QB I would expect to experience some pain in the transition.
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- Create Invoices
- Track budgets and expenses
- Allow to track internal transactions
- The late updates
- Efficient support
- A few benefits or discounts
- More capabilities
- 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).
QB for Mac
- 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).
Well suited for small business
- 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