QuickBooks 2010 for Mac
November 7, 2009 | Posted by admin 
- QuickBooks 2010 for Mac helps you organize your finances, track money going in and out of your business, and spot areas where you can save
- Easily organize your business finances all in one place
- Instantly create invoices, track payments and manage expenses
- Quickly access key customer & vendor information in a single location
- Save time and money by tracking every dollar going in and out of your business
Product Description
QuickBooks for Mac can easily organize your finances, identify ways to save money and manage your business better. Stay on top of it all with important information in one place. Create invoices, track payments and manage expenses. Get insight into your business with access to over 100 reports.Amazon.com Product Description
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Categories: For Mac | 
Tags: 2010, QuickBooks | 
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2APQ986PF7YBQ A few thoughts on QuickBooks 2010 for Mac
Rating: 4 / 5
I finally opened my wallet for this version, albeit, with fingers crossed. I have never been satisfied with previous versions but I want to give this one a try.
This 2010 version seem to be faster than previous ones. I guess that’s the one thing I immediately noticed the first time I run it.
Now, when using an accounting software, a good deal of time is spent in entering data. When entering transactions, the drop down feature for name entry does not automatically drop. You have to click the arrows with a mouse first. That would slow you down, from keyboard to the mouse to the keyboard for every entry you type. The Windows version is more automatic. The drop-down calendar is a new feature, but the buttons to advance/back the months are so tiny it requires surgical precision for the mouse to hit that teeny-weeny button. It may also require a magnifying glass since the dates are also so tiny and in a black background.
The columns in the reports are supposed to be resized by dragging column title left or right. It does not work. I could not resize it, and the arrows don’t work. These may seem to be minor, but for a report to be printed correctly, the columns should be flexible.
The toolbar icons are not business-like. The candy color design is more appropriate for children’s games, with the contrived 3-D effect which does not exactly say professional.
One big thing that is missing is the manual payroll module. It has been with the Windows version for several years, although they have hidden it and you will only find it after searching discussions online. Intuit has been pushing subscription payroll, but if you only have 2 employees, and paid monthly, manual payroll is the way to go. A small business cannot afford to subscribe to payroll when it can be done with a basic knowledge of high school accounting. But there is a work-around: add your own payroll expenses and liabilities in the list of accounts. Why is Intuit making my life so hard! The Windows version is cheaper and yet the manual payroll module is there even in the old versions, like 2004 or earlier if I am not mistaken.
Features that are necessary are missing but features like “easy set-up” are being advertised as new feature. How many times you set-up a company? The day-to-day interaction is on data entry, and if that is horrible, I would be cursing the program every time I get in front of the computer.
So I would rate Quickbooks Mac 2010 mediocre. I will still give it 3 star, which is average (as in mediocre) since it runs faster.
Update: The most recent update (R3) has fixed the report column resizing.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this and installed it the day it came out for the credit card purchasing options. In a nutshell, after 2 and a half hours with tech support, they agreed that it DOESN’T WORK. We were not able AT ALL to connect with any of my credit cards or bank (Chase). Their final response was that they were going to put a fast-track ticket in for the development team.
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased this version because I upgraded to Snow Leopard and found out the hard way that QB 2007 data will become corrupted. The first time it billed a client 9 billion it was funny. The problem progressed to more clients and accounts. It took surfing different sites to find out the source of the problem. Sure didn’t hear it from Intuit. (Second Mac class action on the way?) I use QB every day, I had no choice but to upgrade to resurrect my data. 2010 is SLOW, has frozen my computer 3 times in the past 12 hours. I am not a newbie, this will be my fourth upgrade in QB. If Quickbooks delivered to Mac users as promised it would be fine. It never does. Will be testing out Moneyworks Express to possibly convert.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ll be the odd duck and actually give this version a good review! I use it for my business which is a financial service business (no inventory and no POS through Quickbooks) and I was already using PayCycle (now Intuit Online Payroll) so I have no payroll problems. I also use it as the Treasurer of my Rotary Club.
I’ve read a bunch of negative reviews but I was pleasantly surprised how will it works! The only thing I’m personally missing is the Fixed Asset List of the windows version but that is simple enough to keep on a spreadsheet. Some of the complaints have been that it doesn’t operate identical to the Windows version in term of keyboard shortcuts and that the colors are more primary and less professional…. Give me a break! I LOVE the more Mac like graphical interface and I guess I’m not missing the keyboard shortcuts as much because I use a MacBook Pro and the combination of using hand gestures right below the keyboard is so efficient that I don’t really bother with keyboard shortcuts as much as I used to. BTW, there are still some keyboard shortcuts… but they are the more Mac-like keyboard shortcuts. There are comments about the visual look of the reports on screen cutting off fonts… I figured out all you need to do is click Format->Restore Default the first time you use the report and the screen view adjusts to correct that small bug.
I also had no data problems with my conversion because I followed the directions on the support page for Intuit. Could they have just provided the conversion information with program as opposed to digging it up on their website? Yes, but they didn’t. Anyway, I downloaded and installed the trial version of the Quickbook for Accountants 2010 version for Windows to open and update my Windows 2009 pro version to 2010. I then used that same trial software to export a Mac 2010 file. It worked perfectly. Would I have preferred that the Mac 2010 version converted an older Windows version automatically? Yes, but the inconvenience of installing the Windows 2010 Accountant version was small.
So bottom line, is it perfect? No… but it works much better for me than I would have ever dreamed based on other reviews! I suggest downloading the 30 day trial from Intuit first and trying it within your business environment. If it works for you, buy it from Amazon like I’m about to.
Rating: 4 / 5