Review by Dave Millman

I’ve been involved with a couple of businesses using QuickBooks, one on Windows for many years, one on Mac for about 4 years. We upgraded the Mac users to QuickBooks for Mac 2012.

The good news: QuickBooks for Mac 2012 is a substantial upgrade, with great new features like incremental project invoicing, project timesheets that autofill like checks do, and cool new customer summaries for when you have a lot of projects and invoices with one customer. These are the types of enhancements expected from a mature product.

The other news: The Mac users, including one who moved from an earlier version of QuickBooks for Windows, are starting to get jealous of features available in the Windows version. Although this is not a review of Quicken for Mac, I’ve been unhappy about how Intuit has effectively dropped the ball with that product. So we’re asking ourselves, will Intuit continue to enhance QuickBooks for Mac?nnIn the end, the enhancements in this version made us feel pretty good about it. It almost seems like Quicken designed the ones I mentioned above specifically for us. We want more, but we’re already more productive.

Buy it, use it, there’s nothing better on the Mac. But let’s hope Intuit adds even more enhancements to the next version. And if they cut some of the annoying in-product ads, that would be great too.