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QuickBooks Desktop for Mac

Score7.9 out of 10

124 Reviews and Ratings

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What is QuickBooks Desktop for Mac?

Quickbooks Desktop for Mac is an accounting software designed for Mac users. It is designed to integrate with Apple iCloud. It provides core accounting features in line with the rest of the Quickbooks Desktop product line.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features QuickBooks Desktop for Mac has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Direct deposit files

    Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Reimbursement management

    Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.

    Category average: 8

  • Single sign-on capability

    The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Multi-currency support

    The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Global Financial Support

    Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities

    Category average: 7.8

Reviews

What users are saying about QuickBooks Desktop for Mac.
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Quickbooks Desktop for Mac.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Quickbooks Desktop for Mac on an as-needed basis in our company. We primarily use QBO, but a couple of clients did not want to change to a cloud-based system. QB Desktop allows us to keep these clients on and will enable them to be comfortable with their bookkeeping software.

Pros

  • Payroll Tax Payment and Filings.
  • Inventory Tracking.
  • Account Reconciliation.

Cons

  • Accessibility
  • Bank Feed Connection.

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed us to offer multiple bookkeeping softwares for clients that do not want to change from what they have been using.
  • Payroll filing has given us ease of mind because we can physically make the filings rather than waiting on payroll software to make them for us.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Online

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Xero

User review

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Finance and Accounting (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization loves QuickBooks, and we use it for almost everything. We use it for invoice creation, payroll, timesheets, deposits, reconciliation, financial reports, etc. We do not have problems with it. We wish it could have multiple administrators when connecting it with our budget software. Sometimes, it doesn't keep our accrued time correctly.

Pros

  • Invoicing
  • Timesheet
  • reconcilation
  • Account payable
  • Account receivable

Cons

  • Tracking the budget to expense
  • payroll section still need improvement

Return on Investment

  • don't use it

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Budgyt, Payroll Vault and Intensify

Other Software Used

Budgyt, Payroll Vault, Intensify

Best Accounting Purchase for any Business.

Incentivized
Jennifer HorvathView profile
Executive Director at Dayton Dist. Academy Osteopathic Medicine (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the sole employee and QuickBooks program has been the best decision I could have made for the organization. We are a very small not for profit and even though we don't have a whole lot of income/expenses/line items, QuickBooks works very well for us. The only issue I encounter is when dealing with new sales and customizing our own invoice/statements.

Pros

  • Reports
  • Detailed summaries
  • Customer history

Cons

  • sales invoices
  • detailed receipts

Return on Investment

  • Time management
  • Tax return cost savings
  • Detailed reporting

Other Software Used

QuickEntry by HGS

Usability

DON'T BUY QUICKBOOKS FOR MAC

Jeff MANGER
Accounting Vice President in Corporate at Gemini Outdoors Inc (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Quickbooks Desktop for Mac for about 4 months. I wish I could get my money back but I'm outside the 60-day window that they allow for full refunds. Overall, my experience with Quickbooks for Mac has been the largest train wreck that I've ever experienced. Tech support is incredibly hard to get a hold of and once you do, they tell you that you have to call back for another department. How insanely difficult it can be to just talk with a human. Once you do get the right department, they put you on hold for hours trying to figure out what is wrong. I've done a clean install and re-booted a million times. I am so incredibly disappointed with my purchase decision that I am now looking at Quickbooks alternatives. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PROJECT TO ANYONE!

Pros

  • Nothing

Cons

  • Every topic

Return on Investment

  • I've lost thousands of dollars due to Quickbooks for Mac not working properly
  • Terrible PRoduct
  • Insanely bad customer support

Usability

QuickBooks Desktop for Mac is not the greatest - but if you already know how to do bookkeeping it's a pretty good option.

Incentivized
Daniel Shatzkes CEO Entrepreneur, Manufacturer, MusicianView profile
Owner/Producer/Audio Engineer/Musician/Entrepreneur at Harmony Studios Inc. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Adding customers, vendors, employees, etc. is pretty simple and quick.
  • The reports you can generate are excellent and in credibly helpful - get as birdseye view or detailed as you like.

Cons

  • On the support side - there has always been discrepancies between QB Desktop for Mac vs. Windows and there's just a lot more out there for Windows Desktop. Plus, Intuit has not been shy in making clear that they'd rather everyone migrate over to Quickbooks Online (which I tried and is terrible), and so the support for Desktop seems to be getting minimized or put by the wayside.
  • In the most recent version (2020) the program crashes WAY too much. I've never had this problem before and I'm hoping that they release updates to fix it.

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed me to do a god job of keeping track of our income and expenses the way it should be done. That has great value in my book.
  • The reports give excellent insight into the numbers of the company which allow us to take a deep dive into where we are and where we want to go (forecasting).

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Online

Other Software Used

Plutio, Avid Pro Tools

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