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

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

- Avoid If You Must Do Payroll
The interface was not bad as I entered company information back to the beginning of our fiscal year. Then came the payroll entries. If you must do payroll, avoid this product! You cannot process payroll from within QBPro. You must either use the Quickbooks online service (and trust all of your employees' personal information to the nameless, faceless employees of a company somewhere in cyberspace) or use a stand alone payroll application from a third party developer that is a total piece of crap. I've been using a 12-year-old copy of MYOB that works great except that it does run on the new Macs. When we decided to "upgrade" to QBPro at the recommendation of our accountant, we had no idea of the level of frustration and disappointment that was in store. How can the premier small business accounting application not integrate payroll into the application?! What was Intuit thinking?!

Rating:

- Adequate, but disappointing
I originally purchased QuickBooks Pro for Mac (version 4) back in the '90s because I was impressed with the ease and intuitiveness of Quicken and wanted something just as easy (within reason) for my business. After using QB for a year or two, I was very disappointed to hear Intuit had discontinued the QB for Mac product.

Fast forward a few years. After a temporary slump, the Mac is back on top with new and innovative products. I'm in love with my new PowerMac that significantly boosts my productivity. And I'm still stuck with an aging QuickBooks.

Like other "fair weather friends" who abandoned Mac and then returned when it was hot again, Intuit decided to release an all-new QuickBooks for Mac Version 5. This one would run under the new Mac OS X! And... that's about it. While Windows users benefited from several years of upgrades and new features, the "new" Mac version did not.

One of the advantages of using QuickBooks is the ability to bundle up your files and send them to your accountant for review. But not if you were on a Mac. Nope. Unless your accountant also had the Mac version, you were out of luck.

Intuit expected us to be all excited over running QB under OS X and more than willing to pay full price for the privilege. That's right... no upgrade pricing. I couldn't see shelling out a couple hundred bucks for the same tired software with some lipstick slapped on it.

So I stuck it out with QB4 running under Classic OS9 while Intuit released new versions each year. Each one having only a subset of the Windows version features. Each one requiring you to pay full price to upgrade.

I finally broke down and purchased QuickBooks for Mac 2007 for these reasons:

* I decided it was time to upgrade the rest of my
apps to native OS X and stop using Classic.

* QB for Mac 2007 finally added the ability to
fully customize forms.

* QB for Mac 2007 finally had a usable ability
to bundle up and share records with an accountant
using the Windows version.

* My only other alternative was switching to a
competitive application that was more expensive
and more difficult to use.

As much as I wanted to switch to another vendor, I relented and stayed with QuickBooks. And it works OK. The "Layout Designer" is awkward, but at least I can now make my invoices, etc. look as professional as the rest of my business.

But when I decide to expand my business beyond myself, I'll have the problem of how to share QuickBooks with others... it still doesn't allow multiple user access, while the Windows version has for years.

And get this... QB for Mac 2007 still does not have a timer feature so you can accurately time hourly work and add it to your records. I have to time my labor externally and manually add it into QB. The Windows version... you guessed it. Intuit claims there is no demand among Mac users for this feature. Considering how many creative professionals use Macintosh and charge by the hour, I find that hard to believe.

As long as Intuit treats the Mac community like a bad smell from behind a couch, I will be on the lookout for a better product to replace QB. For now... it will do.

Rating:

- fine and always improving
It still has some bugs, some crashing. But all in all it's great

Rating:

- Not so simple.
It will serve the purpose I bought it for, but it is not made for simpletons like me. I am just glad they made one for Mac users. Thanks Intuit!

Rating:

- Layout Designer is a joke
Don't expect the layout designer program to finally allow you to simply produce clean, professional invoices. I have spent hours formatting an invoice and still cannot adjust column sizes. This sub-program needs ALOT! of work to be practical.

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