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QuickBooks 2011 for Mac to Bring Multi-User Options, Time-Saving Features, Enhanced Customization

Has anyone tried Quickbooks Online? My accountant is using Quickbooks Desktop with Payroll on Windows for my company and has been working fine. I wanted to start eliminating some manual work between us so we are in the process or trying the online version so we could share access. Hoping for the best.
 
FoxyKaye said:
Hey Intuit -

I don't want features, I want FEATURE PARITY with the Windows versions of both QuickBooks and Quicken. Or do you just assume that Mac users somehow have fewer financial management needs?
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Agreed 100%.
Also how a bout file interchangeability between Windows and Mac.
I have to give my accountant my whole year's financials on paper or in pdf doc because he uses Windows.
Talk about the dark ages.
I am just updating to Essentials as I type and am praying it all goes well.
 
The software meets the needs of expanding small businesses with new multi-user options and the ability to set user permissions - the most-requested features by previous QuickBooks for Mac users.[/QUOTE said:
What a joke. The most requested feature by Mac users is PAYROLL. Always has been. Doesn't matter anyway, since accountants accept only QuickBooks for Windows files and until those issues are addressed, I'm a Parallels user. Harrumph!
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QB for Mac is so bad that I actually bought a copy of VMWare, and QB Easy Start 2009 rather than roll with the Mac version. And it's been great so far.

If I hear that this version is good, then I'll still wait until the 2012 version comes out. I'm not beta testing anything if I'm paying for it!
 
arkmannj said:
it won't happen, but I wish Apple would release a good financial product with iWork. That can connect into bank accounts, Export to turbo tax/tax cut.
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I don't want Apple making all the software I use on my Mac. I would like more types of software from 3rd parties. If Apple made everything we wouldn't have much 3rd party support.

Brutalpootle said:
I ran QuickBooks SimpleStart in a Windows VM when I started my business a couple of years ago because I couldn't find any Mac bookkeeping software.
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You couldn't FIND any Mac bookkeeping software or you didn't actually LOOK or did you look and what you found wasn't suitable? I can show you a handful of very well designed accounting software programs for Mac. I get a little disturbed when people say they can't find ANY software for Mac.
 
d21mike said:
Has anyone tried Quickbooks Online? My accountant is using Quickbooks Desktop with Payroll on Windows for my company and has been working fine. I wanted to start eliminating some manual work between us so we are in the process or trying the online version so we could share access. Hoping for the best.
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Yes. I am in the same boat.

Quickbooks online is decent. It does what I need and there's no other product that offers that accountant-client bond. It's good.
 
Quicken. Please.

I was a loyal Quicken for Mac user since about their first Mac port, and hated every minute of it. "What else are you gonna do?", I thought for years. That's all there is, right? I tried iBank when it came out, but it never 'took' with me. I resorted to a sad life with Quicken, until I finally got sick of the ENDLESS delays with the 2011 product (or was it the 2010? Doesn't matter.)

I thought I'd test the waters again, and was fortunate to find (and try) Moneywell. (FYI, I have zero ties to the company, other than I'm a paying customer).

While Moneywell isn't 100% perfect, it SO much does what I need it to do, and exactly they way you always wondered why Quicken didn't. Quicken felt so -weird-, and non-Mac, but Moneywell feels like a Mac product. It's stable, fairly inexpensive, and does exactly what I want it do to - record transactions, reconcile, and let me see balances and queries at a glance. I'm not interested in weird tax issues or obscure investment scenarios. I just want a glorified checkbook register. (In fairness to Moneywell, I'm sure it does all kinds of other stuff, but I've never explored it to find out.)

They've been VERY responsive to my support questions (ever tried to work with Intuit support? It's non-existent and frustrating.

Anyway, I post this for a couple of reasons. One, I hate Intuit and how they've gladly taken my money but offered little in return. Two, I'm tired of reading paid 'articles' on the front page of what was once a decent Mac website. I know it's a fine line between what belongs on the front page and what is an ad, but as I said in the Courier discussion, it's like porn. Hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

(Oh yeah, and three - I love Moneywell. It's SOOOOO nice to not have to use the pathetic Quicken anymore. Good riddance! (Now just enhance the reports, Moneywell devs.....)
 
I was a loyal quicken user for -15- years. After moving to Mac and being screwed by Intuit year after year I finally had enough. I quit using all intuit products and will never go back.

I would bet anything yet again they will renege on their promises to mac users once again. The company is ROLLING in money and yet they can't manage to develop/support us at all.

(insert middle finger to Intuit here).
 
OK slightly off topic but I just upgraded from Quicken for Mac 2007 to Quicken Essentials.
What a total con job.
Can't search by categories or memos etc....
It won't even do rudimentary reports any more.
It's a very bad joke.
They better give my damn money back :mad:
 
GaryPDX said:
What a joke. The most requested feature by Mac users is PAYROLL. Always has been. Doesn't matter anyway, since accountants accept only QuickBooks for Windows files and until those issues are addressed, I'm a Parallels user. Harrumph!
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I agree & how about the ability to pay sales people in commissions. I have 1099 sales agent who I pay only commissions to.

Here's a link to a commission calculator for the PC version of QB:

http://www.geocities.com/llstinson/commcalc.htm

Anyone out there want to write a version for the Mac? I called the author of this version and he has no desire to re-write the code.
 
Quickbooks Enterprise...

Sadly and foolishly, I want to migrate our office to QB Enterprise. But, since I am the only one pushing for it, and they don't support Enterprise for the Mac, we just decided to keep QB for all it is really any good at-- tax accounting.

It is a shame that it is so worthless for basic ERP needs, and the only functional (Project)ERP systems are Windows-only.

QB does the job, once you admit to yourself that all real business intelligence needs to be done in Excel.

I do have to wonder about people using them for Payroll, merchant accounting, or even time tracking though. There is simply no justification for using those features.

(Sad QB 2003 user for 25-person consulting engineering firm)
 
No thank you.

We gave up on QuickBooks a long time ago. All of our clients use the much superior AccountEdge for Mac.

AccountEdge has always been multi-user (and cross-platform!!), it's made by a company that actually CARES about Mac users, they have REAL tech support that isn't located in India, that never abandoned the Mac platform for 10 years, they truly listen to their customers' feedback, and... they STILL have more features than QuickBooks 2011.

For example, did you know that QuickBooks for Mac doesn't even let people "create purchase orders from invoices", a very common need for people that work with product sales. QuickBooks for Windows has ALWAYS allowed Windows users to do this, AccountEdge for Mac has ALWAYS allowed Mac & Windows users to do this... yet QuickBooks for Mac doesn't allow Mac users to do this! Absolutely crazy!

AccountEdge is sooo much more customizable than QuickBooks for Mac, too. And... AccountEdge will give you a free copy of AccountEdge for your accountant, so if your accountant doesn't already own AccountEdge, they can get a copy for free to do your taxes.

QuickBooks for Mac also doesn't have integrated payroll services, whereas AccountEdge does.

We are completely fed up with Intuit's lousy products, TERRIBLE product line for Macs, and HORRENDOUS India-based technical support.

Good riddance, QuickBooks. We will never need you because we love AccountEdge.
 
I sure hope intuit has someone browsing forums like these to listen to their customers or better their potential Market.

I have bad experience with quicken myself and use icompta now. I was really shocked to see the amount of negative comments here. Didn't think it was this bad.
 
HLdan said:
You couldn't FIND any Mac bookkeeping software or you didn't actually LOOK or did you look and what you found wasn't suitable? I can show you a handful of very well designed accounting software programs for Mac. I get a little disturbed when people say they can't find ANY software for Mac.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm in the UK – when I was looking in mid 2008 I couldn't find any Mac accounting software with support for British currency, taxes etc.

I think Intuit even had a Mac version of QuickBooks then but it was only for US businesses.
 
I agree that Quicken on any level sucks on a Mac. It is the only reason that I run Parallels and XP on my Macs.

Someone mentioned Quicken Online, that has been shut down in favor of Mint.com.

Mint.com does nothing more then download my financial information then try to use my data to sell me products I have no need for.
 
What do you guys recommend for a good financial program for the Mac? I still use Quicken and it's o.k. but not as great as I would have hoped. I have heard iBank is good.
 
peterdevries said:
I sure hope intuit has someone browsing forums like these to listen to their customers or better their potential Market.

I have bad experience with quicken myself and use icompta now. I was really shocked to see the amount of negative comments here. Didn't think it was this bad.
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They don't care.
 
Please, sir, may I have some more?

Quickbooks on the Mac is a total joke. I started running a manufacturing business on it and quickly discovered that I couldn't customize the forms which has since been added. That's all well & good but what I really needed were the features found in the Premiere Manufacturing Edition on Windows. I needed to create assemblies and track inventory. So I held my nose and bought that version and I run it under Bootcamp and/or Parallels.

Quickbooks unfortunately is built with .Net ********* so you can't run it on Crossover. And of course there is the added amount of time to boot it up so I have to stall customers on the phone while I wait.

But I have to say that while I agree that Intuit doesn't give a rip about its Mac customers, they aren't much better on the PC side of things. In the Premiere Manufacturing Edition, there is no way to duplicate an assembly. So for example, if you set up an assembly for an iPod 8gig, you can't just press a button to make a copy of that assembly and change the flash memory component to a 16 gig part. The only way to do that is to buy a rather expensive third-party hack. Then there is the total lack of BOM system for spitting out a list of parts that you need to obtain. Again, there's an expensive third-party hack for doing this. Both of these features should be built into the software because you can't run a manufacturing business without them.

As for Quicken, it's clear that Intuit wants to move to the monthly-fee business model so they can suck more money out of you. As a consumer, I hate that attitude. But from a business POV, I can understand it.
 
Quickbooks for Mac has been fine for our small business but I do very basic things with it, just invoicing and book keeping.

The ability to have multiple users will be great as that is really the most annoying thing right now. There are two of us that use QB now and of course one has to quit the program so the other can open it.

Does anyone know if this new version is compatible with a PowerPC processor and Leopard 10.5.8?
 
I've used their online service for a couple of years and make no entries when completing payroll. It's very simple to use and my parents love it for their company. Did you know you can set-up what accounts you want the GLs entries to hit? You do not have to use their "default" accounts. Plus direct deposit and e-stubs are a big hit with our employees! Are you taking advantage of that?
maccam05 said:
After many years of being away from Intuit products, I came back to Quickbooks when my wife's office needed accounting. With the number of employees it made sense to enroll in Intuit's payroll service, along their merchant credit card processing. What a mistake! The payroll service is an online service (not built into the program itself) so it has no integration with QuickBooks. I was astounded to learn that I still have to manually enter the payroll entries into the accounting software (unless you want to use their useless default "payroll tax" entries). Their service does little more than calculate the tax deductions, and tell you how much to write the checks for (and there are other online services that will do that for you for next to nothing). I do as much, or more, manual accounting work as I did before.

Needless to say, I'm getting my wife's office OFF of Quickbooks at year's end.
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Open source Postbooks

If you want real accounting software and run it on your Mac then use Postbooks. This is an open source solution. Its free and has a good support community. And it's CRM functionality came in 4th in the top 10 open source CRM solutions.

Go to http://www.opensurgegroup.com or the xTuple website for more information or to download your own free copy to try.
 
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