That lack of Mac friendliness (or ‘nativeness’) was a deterrent until recently.īut now, with the QuickBooks App for Mac, (shown in Figure 1 above) the look and feel of Mac is available, with the feature set and anytime-everywhere access that only QuickBooks Online provides.
That exception was, until recently, the fact that QuickBooks Online, even when accessed from a Mac browser looked and felt like a ‘windows product’, it didn’t feel like ‘Mac’. For this reason it is probably much easier for QuickBooks for Mac users to migrate to QuickBooks Online, with one exception. But QuickBooks for Mac has also always been behind the windows products, and in many ways the feature set of QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks for Mac have been much closer, and continue to be. In the past, I like many other windows users’ have struggled with the differences between QuickBooks (windows) desktop products and QuickBooks Online, and while the new (Harmony) version of QuickBooks Online has come a long way in terms of both capabilities and performance, most windows product users still consider it ‘behind the times’ from a feature standpoint. I checked with my friend who recently started using the App to access QBO from her Mac and she says, “it’s the bomb.” (I’m kind of new to all this slang-stuff, but I think that means she likes it and she accuses me of talking over her head….’what’s up with that?’)
But when I heard that Intuit was launching a Mac App for QuickBooks Online I predicted that it could well be a ‘game changer’ with the QuickBooks for Mac community, and by all appearances in its’ first 30-days since launch that prediction may be coming true.
So I must admit that I have not been a big fan of QuickBooks for Mac, but I do support it, and I have a lot of clients who use it.
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