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 - No payrollFor several years I used QB for Windows, but for the past couple I didn't use it and in the mean time all my Windows machines died or were replaced by Macs. So I got QB for Mac. One of the two major things I need it for, payroll, is not supported on the Mac. For those who don't know, the payroll feature is not just about paying employees (I have none but myself,) it's also about knowing how big a check to write to yourself based on what was on invoices; computing withholding; printing your check and the withholding checks to send to state and federal gov't; printing a W-2 at the end of the year; getting a breakdown on exactly what you were paid for. None of this is available on the Mac version. That is absolutely incomprehensible to me. On the bright side, it did cost more than the Windows version. I'm so angry at Intuit I will probably not even use TurboTax again. Rating: - Not so "QuickBooks"MacMoney has been a premier accounting program for the Mac for years. To my dismay it is not only unsupported in OS X but is becoming hard to find printers that still support Classic so the switch was made to QuickBooks for my Real Estate and Property Management business. I followed the manual and on screen instructions for the type of business for over 12 hours only to find the system not performing as expected at which time I went to the internet and found that many others shared my frustration and ended up having to purchase a manual or hire an expert to set up their program. When I purchased QuickBooks I never expected to have to also pay for assistance to set up my company but this seems to be the norm. Rating:  - Don't Try to Convert your QB Windows FileDO NOT switch from QB for Windows to QB for Mac and expect to take your data with you. After spending half a day on the phone with the tech folks at Intuit (India), I was not able to successfully transfer my data. I was required to edit EVERY TRANSACTION to remove slashes and dashes from the memo fields (I often have dates in there), remove every memorized report, one at a time, including the memorized reports that shipped with the product, as well as every memorized transaction. That is just to prepare the file. The good news is that I can get my money back after spending another hour on the phone! Rating: - Absolute Junk - Do not buy this product.This product looks exactly the same as 6.0, 2005, 2006, etc. and does not work any better and for your money you get laughable feature updates. If the version you have works then do not spend $200+ to upgrade. They say it is compatible with the newest version of Mac OSX (Leopard 10.5) but it crashes on my machine significantly more than the previous version did in 10.4. This is an absolutely worthless upgrade. The one thing that I was hoping for is not even included and they do not tell you when you buy it. You can not do online bill payment like you can on the PC side. Its cross platform compatibility is an absolute joke. When are they going to step into the 21st century and finally make one file format that works across both platforms? We have been able to open .doc and .pdf files for eons without issue. Their customer support is an absolute joke. No one there has the slightest clue about mac's or about accounting. You are basically on your own. Their online help is laughable. When the software spits out an error code you can not even look it up on their crappy web site. I think that I would be better off doing my accounting on a paper ledger. After the untold hours of crashing, incompatibility, and thousands in extra money that I have spent in accounting fees because of incompatibility I would be better off hiring my own team of accountants in India or China. I hate to recomend another product from a company as lousy as intuit but I would suggest running parallels or VMware Fusion (to run XP or some other MS OS) and buy a copy of Quickbooks for the PC. It woks better and has better support... well at least for the first 6 months that you own it. Then they will upgrade to 2009 and quit supporting the version you have. All you will have to do is plunk down another $200 for the upgrade that will probably not give you anything more than the last version. I also hope that you are not a victim of the version of quickbooks that is deleting important information off of customers desktops. If you are good luck with their brain-dead phone support. In all my 20 years of computing I have NEVER seen a more lousy piece of software than Quickbooks for the Mac nor have I ever seen such shameless upgrade practices as the ones that Intuit makes their money on. -Matt Rating:  - New User QB'07I have just entered into bookkeeping and so far Product is doing little for me, soon to change. I will be taking a class in QB via Local Comm. College. I have done a basic bookkeeping class so I understand the basics of what is happening with the program. Intuit does seem to engender a love hate relationship with their customer base after reading posts on their ( Intuits ) support forums, it is their business model after all and not mine. The Apple version seems possibly stunted/reduced feature wise, but it is too early for me to opine about that, perhaps after my class, which will be all about the windows version I can venture a reasoned view.
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