Customer Reviews
Quickbooks Mac compared to Quickbooks PC 
2007-01-09
As a relatively new Mac user, I needed to convert my existing Quickbooks files into the Mac version. Although it's a couple years old, it meets all of my needs. It converted the PC file with no trouble at all, but it did not convert my custom forms. The PC version has a layout editor for forms and the Mac version does not seem to have that functionality, so I have to do that externally.
All in all, I am happy with the product--just wish they were the same feature for feature.
Quickbooks Mac to the rescue. 
2007-01-09
My business is small and catching up very quick with the bookkeeping since I received my QB MAC software. I love how it integrates all info into various reports. What an immediate eye opener to see my expenses vs my income! It was easy to transfer all info from my pc to my Mac with this. It's pretty intuitive. Just took a little getting used to, but am up & running.
dont waste your money 
2005-12-19
Do not get taken with this lousy product. the payroll portion of this is made by a different company and will cost you 19.99 a month after the 3 month trial period is up. but then it will not open unless you have file-vault turned off! I would own a PC instead of a Mac if I wanted to operate without file-vault!! the devil is in the details...it would be nice if all the advertising that they do to sell this, that they would be honest and upfront about it not working on MAC.
QuickBooks Pro 2005 minimizes chaos 2005-11-05
Qbks really made my bookkeeping easy. The step-by-step set up is easy to follow. After setting things up I found it really easy to stay on top of my bookkeeping.
Doesn't completely suck 
2005-11-03
I started a new business and bought Quickbooks, like I was told too. While it isn't extremely intuitive and lacks some functionality, it doesn't completely bite either. Note, I don't use payroll and have a simple business.
I bought Simple Start for Windows since Mac users complain about the gap in features, and that is true, but the Windows version isn't different at any essential level - it is just as confusing and difficult to customize, convert to Excel , etc; as the Mac version. I will probably not upgrade due to the lack of upgrades, but this is still the best accounting program for Mac I found. I'm guessing all of these programs suck (stupid accounting).
QB Pro 2005 for Mac is a worthwhile purchase 2005-10-24
QuickBooks: Pro 2005 is designed to make personal finance management more easy than ever. Use it to track your expenses, plan out budgets and even print your own packing slips & shipping labels. Manage your money more effectively with budgeting and new cash flow tools.
Not Mac friendly - QB4 better 
2005-10-04
If you are only upgrading from Quickbooks 4 for Mac because of printer problems running under classic in OS X, I suggest you live with constantly having to reselect the printer. An upgrade to 2005 will fix the printer problems, but it's not worth it.
We "upgraded" from Quickbooks 4 for Mac and were not too excited. QB4 felt like a MAC application, 2005 feels like a PC port. I knew from the advertising that there were really no new features that made it worth the money, but running QB4 under OS 9 (in the classic environment) was a problem for us, since it would loose track of the assigned and available printers.
The menu organization is less intuitive. For example, Inventory Activities is in the Vendors menu, and GL Journal Entries is in the Banking menu. Graphs are buried in amongst the reports, rather than a top level graph menu.
The names for things you put on the company toolbar are now limited to 9 characters.
The top menu crowds out the standard Apple items normally on the right.
We can get used to all that. The main complaint is QB 2005 expects you to have a large screen. All the fonts and window displays are much larger. Needlessly so, in my opinion. This wouldn't be so bad except the window resizing is limited and columns in the windows cannot be resized.
For example, the Items window doesn't fit on our screen and we can't see the item numbers and the scroll bar at the same time. You can't resize the width to make it fit (like every other mac application, except some games), nor can you reduce the 2 inch column for quantity on hand (which looks like it would allow about 40 digits). Being able to customize the columns displayed in the items window would do it, but that isn't available.
Quickbooks for Mac fails to impress 2005-07-28
Because we have recently become totally Mac-based, we transferred our Quickbooks from an older PC to our new Mac G5. While Quickbooks is pretty effortless on the PC - allowing payroll to be processed directly from the single software - the Mac system requires other complimentary software - Aatrix Top Pay - to accomplish that simple task. This awkward and Byzantine requirement makes the investment pretty useless to us and something we regret spending the money on and taking the time to incorporate. It is really disappointing.
Bernie Krause, PhD
President
Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
Quickbooks for Mac 2005-07-21
I use QuickBooks for Windows and really want to get rid of my
Windows machine. I purchased Quickbooks for the Mac and
was STUNNED by the LACK of functionality of the product.
Intuit continues to treat the Mac as the ugly step child.
Quickbooks for the Mac without any online functionality such as internet banking is a joke. I am stuck with Quickbooks for Windows for now.
I can't believe there's no online banking support!!!! 2005-04-23
This just blows my mind. My cheapo Quicken (actually bundled free) has had great online banking support for years, but pricey Quickbooks PRO does not? What is that? This is 2005 -- I can't fathom how they could possibly release this product without online banking support. It's not like they don't know how to do it.
Other than that I really like it. I'm using it anyway as there isn't really an attractive alternative in my opinion, as they must know...
