[Old Version] QuickBooks 2014 for Mac

I don't normally write reviews, but I felt compelled to do so for this product. As a new small business owner, I consider QuickBooks a must. This software is essential for bookkeeping, invoicing and keeping track of your expenses and taxes. If I were to add anything to it, it will be cloud support and mobile access. Meaning backup my content on the cloud and being able to process invoices etc from my phone when I'm not at the office. I know that Quickbooks online does that, but I wanted a mobil integration with the Stand alone version of quickbooks.

Although I had done some research and talked to Intuit about this product explaining my situation in detail and having been assured that QuickBooks 2014 for Mac was what I needed, when I loaded it and started working with it, I realized that it was WAY to complex for my little self employed business. What I was looking for was something very similar to Quicken 2002 for PC which I have been using for years to great satisfaction. But it wouldn't run on my new Mac and there is nothing available like it. Eventually, I had to find a third party program which lets this simple old program run on my Mac.In the meantime, I returned QuickBooks 2014 to Amazon, but had it re-returned back to me because I had opened it, leaving me out $192.99 for a program that is useless to me.

This Quickbooks for Mac, has no feature to allow you to manually do payroll without paying a "fee" minimum of $20.00 per month. I purchased a Mac and spent way more money than a Windows Desktop, specifically for our business. And I cannot even use the program the way it SHOULD be designed to be used. I am very disgusted with this program, and wish I would have known this sooner, I however found out the hard way, and tried to do payroll, and waited a total of 45 minutes on hold with Intuit, only to find that even if I do payroll myself, and have an accountant that does my tax filing, I have to pay the $20.00 a month. That is over $200.00 a year to pay our maximum of 5 employees. Just beware if you purchase this product, you cannot do payroll without paying an additional fee! It already cost over $200.00 for the program. I have Quickbooks on my old Windows computer, and will be installing software so that I can run the Windows version of QB on my Mac. I think that Intuit has made a HUGE mistake!!

Good product but not as intuitive as QuickBooks for a PC. I have used this software on both platforms -PC and Mac. The PC version was much easier to follow. I had to purchase a "a how to" book for the Mac version, but I finally figured it out.

If you've been using spreadsheets or other basic accounting software, moving to QuickBooks and its double entry accounting system is a clear win. I've found it to be an indispensable tool for maintaining accurate books, but the product still has room to improve.The Mac version is quite good, but you'll want to keep these points in mind:- There is not feature parity between the Windows and Mac versions. Check the product details in case you need any omitted features.- Check the website to see whether your bank is supported if online banking is important to you. I assumed because Quicken supported my bank so would this product, but not so.- There is no fixed asset manager, so tracking these has to be done through subaccounts and an external spreadsheet. Given even many small businesses need to track these, this is much more painful than it needs to be. Even an option to create the standard asset, cost, and depreciation subaccounts all at once would be helpful, though a real asset manager and depreciation calculator would be much better.- Regardless of the advertising, unless you have an accountant who doesn't mind updating all your entries, you actually do need to know not only the basics of double entry accounting, but also how to handle specific tax, asset, and equity situations and record them correctly on the books such as depreciation, retained earnings, paid in capital, partner distributions, etc. Accountants handle these in various ways, but I was still surprised to find no "best practice" instructions included.- Unfortunately due to tax codes, there is often a difference between GAAP book depreciation and tax depreciation, and QuickBooks provides no easy means to handle this distinction that I've discovered yet.- At the end of the year, there are certain steps that need to be performed to close the books depending on the type of business you have, and if you don't know what those are you'll have to check with an accountant because QuickBooks offers no guidance that I could find.- The Mac version does not correctly compute Retained Earnings on reports except for the Balance Sheet report. This is rather frustrating if you expect to be able to review the RE account for partner share distributions or for tax purposes. You can work around it by running reports to compute Net Income and such, but this should not be necessary as demonstrated by the Windows version.Overall, QuickBooks is a product I wouldn't do without, and the Mac version has worked well for my needs, but I would love to see Intuit close the gaps I mentioned in a future update.

QuickBooks 2014 is very intuitive. Its what I had hoped it would be since QB 2006. Its finally Mac-like in every way. I run my own business and with this new version I am able to work much more efficiently. Its format and layout is very well thought out with the user in mind.

Bought Quickbooks 2014 a year ago, and found out they don't support the new IOS Sierra a week ago. Basically they want customers to pay $200 every 2 years. I have been a Quickbooks user for more than 10 years. Never again. This is so wrong. The value of this product is going down and down every year. Now they are forcing everybody to go to the online version or pay hundreds of dollars every two years. The online version does not support multiple companies For accountant like me, who is doing this for multiple tiny businesses, it is a no go.Quickbooks is never a must for me. It is just more convenient. Never again. They lost me as a customer for good.

I had to return this because IT'S NOT CANADIAN! Very important when you're trying to run a Canadian business to have Canadian accounting software. Would have been nice if it said this somewhere.