Domain Name Com's Software QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Software QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

Domain Name Com's - Software : QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac (Mac) [OLD VERSION]

- Download the trial version and decide for yourself
You'll have to search for the free download on the Intuit/Quickbooks web site, it's not obvious, but you can download a 30-day trial of QB Pro 7 for Mac and see if it will work better for you or not. There are about 5 steps to actually obtaining a download (log in at Intuit, request a download, wait for an email, click on a link, then seek out the actual download page you want, then download) but at least you don't have to shell out $160. first. (Note that Amazon had the best price for the new version, NOT Intuit, which of course does not offer a reduced upgrade price for prior users, whom they apparently could care less about). I jumped through the hoops and have been using the new version (trial) for about a week in my small business. Although the forms designer is idiotic in some ways, it does, after about 2 hours of fooling with it, allow you to generate forms and other documents that look much more graphically pleasing than Ver. 5 (my previous version, I skipped the previous upgrade). The forms can now include color graphics and photographs (tip: it seemed to me that importing a BMP file looked better than JPEG or TIF. No idea why). As a graphic design-related business, I thought this was worth the purchase price alone, although I stress the "engineers" at Intuit should ask someone from the graphics department for some input.
If they'd actually included some additional "upgrade" beyond the forms designer, I'd have gone to 4 stars, but there isn't much else that is new in this release.
I will say that the upgrade process went smoothly, no hitches. There is a "backup to Windows" option which also seems easier to use than in Ver. 5. It generated a file of over 100 mb. however, so I guess the days of emailing it to my accountant are over. Haven't tested to see if he can open this file on Windows as yet.

Rating:

- Nobody gets more blood per stone than Intuit
I upgraded to this from QB 2006 for one and only reason: the form layout designer. That's a good thing, too, because that's about the only thing they added to this version aside from recompiling for Intel. I could tell from the screenshots that the layout app was kludgy and awful and rushed to market by a bunch of outsourced engineers who have little to no experience in Mac GUI design, but it was still better than the old method of simply typing in column widths numerically and guessing at how the application was going to interpret them. Is it $170 worth of better? Probably not. It's still pretty limiting with what you can do in terms of formatting (tracking or kerning controls would certainly have been nice since there's no way to tell it NOT to draw the label for each field, thusly making it impossible to pick up the slack with an Illustrator or InDesign built PDF background), and it seems to have a fair degree of difficulty in determining the appropriate baseline for OpenType fonts. You also have zero control over how form rows print, just columns. Definitely a step up, but it has so many annoying little quirks that it ends up being nearly as frustrating as the old method was anyway.

Intuit has also seen fit to drop the once formidable printed manual from this release. Instead of a hefty tome full of in-depth knowledge, we now get a 100 page booklet which dedicates over half its space to installation and setup related tasks. Think they made up for it with a PDF version? Think again. The PDF is identical to the printed guide. Apparently Intuit wants you to use their Help content instead of a manual, which I might not mind so much ordinarily, but the Help files are pretty sparse, and searching for "Layout" in an attempt to figure out how I was supposed to re-order columns on my invoices using the new layout designer actually turned up NO results. Nice job.

Since MYOB is pretty much unusable, Intuit knows they have a guaranteed cash flow with every new release regardless of whether or not they put any effort whatsoever into it. This one is no exception. If you don't need to customize your forms, don't bother paying for 2007. It still doesn't have mileage tracking, credit card processing or any of the other myriad features the Windows version has had for years.

UPDATE: When generating an income tax report for 2006 (detail or summary makes no difference) QB 2007 thinks that EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION I HAVE EVER ENTERED PRIOR TO 2006 took place on 03/07/06. These transactions are still recorded correctly in the individual account reports, but the figures it's telling me to enter into my return are obviously way, way, WAY off. This means I have to get out my calculator and go through everything manually--precisely the thing that I purchased accounting software to avoid. Good job, Himanshu.

Rating:

- Great app getting even better
Intuit is really adding some helpful features in this version for Mac. Nearly every form is customizable with a built in design tool. The tutorials are very acute. The printing of deposit slips is very helpful and saves time.
Over all, its just getting more intuitive (hence the name). The reports and the find function are still not very flexible, but they work. Its not perfect, but its a very solid tool that we work in every single day.

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