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From:Intuit, Inc.
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22 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not as advertised:MAC to PC problems., 2005-04-06
If you are planning on round-tripping between your Mac and a Windows version (i.e. between your accountant or bookeeper's PC using a windows version of Quickbooks Pro- DO NOT PURCHASE this product! Unfortunately, there are two major flaws with Quickbooks 2005 7.0. The first and most dangerous is that the more you round trip the more corrupt your data will become. Secondly, if you have memorized reports you will have to errase them before round tripping and they will not be saved.
Unfortunately Quickbooks does not tell you this before purchasing- infact they advertise this easy conversion between Mac and PC as a selling feature for their product.
If you do not need to have your accountant or CPA manipulate your data on their PC, then the program is a good attempt to make a Windows style program into a MAC-like product.
18 of 20 customers found the following review helpful:
NoBooks Is More Like It, 2005-04-01
Don't buy it. If you're on Mac, spend your money on PC emulator and use the PC version of QuickBooks. The Mac version doesn't seem to be designed to be used as a bookkeeping system for a business. You can't print deposit slips. You can print a deposit summary, but the bank is funny about requiring an account number and a routing number.
QuickBooks won't do payroll updates for the Mac version, so you have to jump through more hoops to get signed up with yet another vendor, then you get the software vs. software argument: "It's not our problem, it's theirs." "No, it's not our problem, it's theirs."
And that's the first day. I understand it gets worse from there, but I'm not sticking around for the ride.
Intuit has kindly set up an online forum so users can "share creativity" for working around problems. I thought that was what programmers were supposed to do. I thought I was supposed to spend my time running my business and using the software, not "fixing" it. But hey, maybe someone will buy that line and believe it's her fault the program is a dog.
Intuit has taken a page from the Gates book and gone MS one better on the QuickBooks for Mac version.
17 of 17 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not ready for prime time: more is less, 2005-03-03
Intuit has hyped this new release a lot, but it falls well short of deserving the praise. The 2005 QuickBooks for Mac would be a definite improvement if there weren't so many little glitches and annoyances in it. Most disturbingly, accounts and numbers pull disappearing acts - they simply don't display on the screen sometimes. How confidant can you feel when you're looking at a Profit and Loss statement that has no numbers on it?
Even though the menus are touted as being redesigned to closely match those in the PC version of QuickBooks, some things are still maddeningly hard to find. And too many basic features are still unavailable. Intuit should have kept this under wraps a bit longer and made sure it worked before they foisted it off on users eager for an improved product. Let's hope they address the bugs promptly in a maintenance update.
48 of 62 customers found the following review helpful:
Rebate is phony, 2005-02-11
The terms of the rebate aren't listed here but once you get the pakage you will see in the fine print that it is only for people who are UPGRADING from a previous version of QuickBooks.
20 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
back to the stoneage!, 2005-01-31
I just got a new mac. Very pleased with its performance! I have been using Quickbooks 4 on Windows. While the mac version of quick books had some nice features (lack of Quick books ads, not so many navigation buttons that go to the same place) I did not like the fact that I had to manually type in the customers information all over again if the ship to address was different than my company. Might sound trivial, but when you create purchase orders all day long it adds alot of time. Also, no shipping feature. Have to manually type in your shipping addresses somewhere else because Quick books for mac does not have it! Custom invoices and purchase orders are not that custom. You have to use their form, can't change the size of the columns, You can insert a logo but have to put it where they put it! You can change the fields. The text is so small that you have to sit about a foot away from the puter to see it. With my other programs for mac I can go in and change the font size in that program. With Quickbooks I have to change my whole screen resolution. I called Quickbooks and was told that I could pay 100.00 for a month support or I could pay 350.00 for a year of support. I asked if this support would make the drop ship auto fill work and she said no. I said for 700.00 shirley I can find another program that works properly to start with! She said I could exchange the program for Quickbooks 5 for windows and just use my old PC for Quickbooks, and maybe by next year they would have better features of quickbooks for mac. I asked for a refund. She said I could send it back in 60 days if I wanted. Probably so I would forget about it and not return it. Seems like I read a 30 day money back garautee somewhere!
Overall, I am not pleased with my 300.00 investment. If I could rate this program with NO stars I would!
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