Review by J. Friedman

I’m one of those folks who has used QuickBooks on PC for a dozen years or so. Yes, as you can read in other reviews here, this new Mac version can’t touch the PC version on a feature-for-feature basis. The PC version is so much more mature, has so many more options and value-added services (not to mention complete payroll management, if you need that), whereas the Mac version is just coming out of the starting gate.

BUT, if you’re running a Mac and don’t want to bother with a PC, or with running Windows on your Mac just to run QuickBooks, and if you don’t need to manage payroll or use some of the other advanced features, then you can feel comfortable with buying QuickBooks as an entry-level solution for a small business. Really, it’s not that bad! It’s just simple, and contains only a small subset of the features you get on the Windows version.

You can set up income and expense accounts, you can set up invoices and sales receipts, you can track your various bank and credit accounts, and much more. The Amazon product description gives you lots of detail, as does the Intuit website for QuickBooks, so I’m not going to repeat all the features here.

Bottom line: yes, Mac users can do simple accounting for small business with this version, and it’s not as full-featured as the Windows version. Let’s hope Intuit takes this software seriously, realizes more and more small business owners are using Macs (they must realize it or they wouldn’t have backed out of their non-Mac mindset after all these years), and then adds more of the features that make this software a mainstay of small businesses who like running Windows PCs.