Why I buy this one ?
- Familiar Mac interface; takes advantage of some of the best features of OS X
- Track money going in and out of your business, and easily perform routine tasks like payroll, invoicing, check-writing and more
- Run your payroll right from the software, or any web browser with Quickbooks Payroll for Mac (service powered by PayCycle, Inc.)
- Supports Web Connect to easily import downloaded transactions into QuickBooks from more than 1000 participating financial institutions
- Automatically interface and share business contacts with your OS X Address Book

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What our customer's say!

"Hard to use", I had purchase the simple start a year ago and it was easy to use, this version does not come with the flow chart system and has a lot of stuff that I don't need or want. Plus the banking doesn't work with Wells Fargo so that leave the 10 million of us banking with Wells fargo in the dark.

"Not what it's supposed to be", The QuickBooks for Mac version is a watered down version of the Windows version. It's little better than using an Excel spreadsheet. Also, despite claims by Intuit that it's compatible with the Windows version, it's not. Any feature in QB Windows database that is not in the Mac version needs to be stripped out before a company's file can be transferred. Along with the truly awful Intuit technical support, this version is just a waste of money.

"garbage", It wont run off a file share! You can't have 1 user access it over a file share or it crashes. I just wanted it to sit on my server and it was not possible. I spoke with support and they said thats the way it is with no explanation why.

"Not worth the time and hassle. Bad reviews are correct.", Purchased dQB Pro 2006 earlier this year. Worked fine until recently when it suddenly started having problems with the "Enter Sales receipts" function. Program announces fatal error and crashes. No other problems; however, Intuit wants $75.00 to discuss the issue. I used the previous version with no difficulty, but Intuit's excessive support fees for correcting QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Mac bugs now have me looking for alternatives.

"It works for a small business with basic accounting needs. ", I find the software both easy to use and powerful enough to track the finances of my small business. The invoice and customer tracking sections are especially well designed. It is an all around good product for my business.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Take These Bad Reviews Seriously", There is a lot wrong with this software. Online banking is all but impossible, even after downloading statements in the exact format required by the software. Importing... forget about it! So, I now have all of these lovely online data files on my desktop and QuickBooks can't/won't read them.

No worries, I'll just call the tech support line, since we have a free 30 days of support with purchase. Nope. The info at QuickBooks.com/callme lets us all know that support is not currently available for our product on our platform and we can't even fill out the form to get "in line" for a callback tomorrow, when tech support is available.

What's with all of the hoops we get to jump through, after spending nearly $200 on this software?

I was the office manager for a small business that used QuickBooks Pro on Windows back in '99. I was eager to try out QuickBooks for the Mac with the financial records of MY small business (which has recently become not-so-small, hence the need to automate, rather than doing everything "by hand" this fiscal year) and the whole experience has been a big fat downer.

I'm still giving the software two stars because I guess I figure the cute ledger sheets and invoice generators are somewhat more robust than Microsoft Excel.

*sigh*

"OS X versions lack built-in Payroll functionality", I've used the OS 9 version for years, making do with manually adjusted tax rates for unemployment and California taxes, etc. as needed. Year-to-date info always worked, and Pay Liabilities always worked, and so long as I entered the tax amount correctly for each paycheck I was OK.

Since 2006, however, the OS 9 version stopped updating the year-to-date info, though the Pay Liabilities still has the total correct. This made it harder to ensure getting the taxes correct as the gross pay total reached the $7000 (and other) limits, so I decided to upgrade to the latest OS X version.

The Amazon.COM product info makes it sound like OS X versions still support Payroll functions, but it turns out this requires a SUBSCRIPTION to an Outside Vendor! The OS 9 menu items for Payroll are missing!

Worse, when I returned the product to Amazon.COM, they withheld half the cost as a restocking fee, because it was my fault I didn't catch this subtlety in their easy to misunderstand product information.

Most every longstanding product enhances functionality with upgrades, so how was I to expect moving from OS 9 to X would lose such an important Business function as Payroll? Amazon.COM does a disservice to us customers to let Intuit get away with making it sound like QuickBooks does Payroll when it does not do so natively.

"actually talks to Windows", The main reason for getting this upgrade was to transfer data to my accountant - from my Mac to his Windows. Up 'til now I had not been able to. My rating of 4 is held back by the poor import of my Quicken data. Ended up importing Quicken transactions manually .... which was not as bad as it sounds since Quickbooks has nice entry features. I will be abondoning Quicken for Quickbooks. Do not like the atttitude from Intuit that you have to upgrade every year and hope that pressure is not continued with Quickbooks.

"Heads Up - Bait and Switch for Payroll", Intuit's historic QB 4.0 program featured an additional "Pro" component for payroll, so years ago we bought the QB "Pro" 4.0 for those additional payroll features. Then QB discontinued support for us Mac users altogether in 2000, but our own shop persisted, auto-entering payroll data until this year, when we thougtht we could upgrade to 2006 OSX for Mac. Hah! We've learned that QB Pro now only supports payroll online, at an additional charge ($25/mo!)

Ok, for half that additional cost each year, CheckMark Payroll (also available at Amazon) will now do that part of our accounting. We appreciate QB features overall, but when we upgraded to Pro 2006, we were not ready to be sent, unprepared, into payroll accounting Neverland. Intuit's continued use of "Pro" for 2006 is darn-near bait & switch, we think. Shoppers, consider carefully! MYOB and Peachtree are strong alternatives for Mac users.

"Intuit needs some competition!", I was forced to purchase this program, since I had used the trial version and there was no way to save the information back to the previous version. Additionally, Intuit informed me they wouldn't be supporting the previous version! And on top of that, there's no longer an upgrade price, and I was charged full price after years of using QuickBooks. Wish I could transfer everything to another accounting program...