Small businesses can find more ways to save time with a Mac experience they expect in the latest release of QuickBooks® financial software from Intuit Inc.
QuickBooks for Mac 2012 offers more than 50 new features and enhancements that give small businesses faster access to important information and simplify critical business tasks. The product becomes available on Sept. 26.
“As more and more small businesses adopt Macs, we see increased adoption of QuickBooks for Mac,” said Dan Wernikoff, senior vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Financial Management Solutions division, in the press release. “In response, we’ve recommitted ourselves to making the product even better. With Apple’s new Lion OS, we focused on a simple, elegant and easy to use native experience, while continuing to add new features that save small businesses time.”
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Faster Access to Important Information
For small businesses, having instant access to important data when and where they need it can mean the difference in getting paid on time or overlooking money owed by a customer. QuickBooks for Mac 2012 makes it intuitive and fast to find needed information with features such as:
• Improved Search: Use keywords to find items such as customer or vendor contacts, transactions, amounts and dates. Apply filters to refine search results or save searches for future reference.
• Customer and Vendor History Panels: Get an at-a-glance view of customer details, such as open balances and notes, right next to open invoices. Small businesses can now complete transactions and answer customer questions quickly and easily.
• Transaction List: Browse and sort forms by date, customer name or other criteria while entering invoices, expenses and sales receipts. With all the information at one’s fingertips, it eliminates the need to flip through past transactions one by one.
“The new search feature is powerful. It helps me instantly track down specific transactions, customer contacts, reports – you name it,” said Christine Holzmann of CH Graphic Designs, LLC in Peachtree City, Georgia, in the press release. “With the intuitive functionality of Spotlight or Google, search will save me a lot of time finding what I’m looking for in QuickBooks.”
Simplified Multi-step Tasks
Saving small businesses steps on common, repetitive tasks saves more than time. It helps to reduce bookkeeping errors. New features in QuickBooks for Mac 2012 simplify key multi-step tasks, including:
• Batch Online Banking Transactions: Import multiple transactions from bank and credit card accounts to QuickBooks at once. Automatically create smart rules to match payees downloaded from online banking accounts to QuickBooks names.
• Progress Invoicing: Easily create multiple invoices from a single estimate to bill for a project over time. Invoice by line item or by percentage of job estimates and easily track invoice details.
“The batch entry feature for online banking transactions saves me valuable time spent entering and renaming transactions one-by-one and it saves me from making errors in the process,” said George Qualley of Qualley and Bleyhl, P.L.C. in Des Moines, Iowa, in the press release. “By expediting transaction entry in a fool-proof way, QuickBooks gives me more time to focus on running my law firm.”
Get Up and Running Fast
In addition to adding timesaving features, the 2012 release makes getting started easier than ever for small businesses new to QuickBooks. With the introduction of the Get Started Right program, QuickBooks for Mac 2012 users receive one hour of free technical phone support with a QuickBooks expert.
Pricing and Availability
QuickBooks for Mac 2012 is scheduled to be available for purchase directly from Intuit at www.quickbooks.com/mac or by calling 888-729-1996 beginning Sept. 26. It is expected to be available at Apple retail stores, Apple.com, Amazon, Best Buy, Costco.com, Fry’s, MacZones, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples on Oct 9.
Suggested retail prices are:
• 1-User: $229.95
• 2-User: $439.95
• 3-User: $599.95
Additional seats can be purchased for $209.95 each.
Source: Intuit Inc.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Show me something to replace the colossal failure Quicken Essentials instead!
I upgraded to QE Mac about a year ago and although it is a little different I have no issues using it to manage a few bank accounts. I did wait until I saw it the discount bin at Office Depot for twenty bucks though.
Okay… are the files 100% compatible with the Windows version my accountant uses? Otherwise this continues to be useless…
You should fire your accountant for still using antediluvian Windows OS. 😉
Yeah, after shelling out way too much money for Quicken and Essentials, I find Intuit’s silence and inaction on the personal finance for Mac front offensive. Thankfully, I found iBank not only to be feature-parity, but in several ways superior.
No lipstick is going to make this pig any prettier!
Wow!
Maybe 6 years ago I would have cared but like most of us Mac users, my family and business have long since moved on.
See ya.
I’m not even going to waste my time with this ‘new version’.
I’m going to guess it is not on a feature parity with the Windows version. Can’t be bothered to read the marketing blurb, I know its going to be crippled. So, am I right….
… answers on a postcard
Rush will be happy.
When is QuickBooks Enterprise for Mac coming? That’s what’s keeping me from converting my entire school to Mac.
Let’s see a feature comparison between this and the windows version. I don’t use it but many do, and it’s ridiculous that they don’t give it parity with Windows.
No upgrade pricing — current users pay full price. This company is so over. What’s your favorite next gen finance software for business?
Intuit does not care about their customers…period. This is a quote from MacWorld today: “It’s not about feature parity,” Kapadia says of QuickBooks for Mac 2012, which will be unveiled Wednesday. “It’s about doing the things our users are asking for”. So, QB for Mac users are not asking for file compatibility and Accountant’s Review?? What a load of manure!!
QB is the ONLY reason I have a lone Windows machine. MYOB is great except our accountant uses QB and MYOB does not have the Accountant’s Review feature.
My account setup my quickbooks file on windows and she had to export to a Mac-compatible backup file which I imported into the Mac version. Not seamless I guess. Are there other issues?
Yes, I have also done it like this. But, I did not find it acceptable. In the Windows version:
• you can lock the entries up to a point in time. You can continue entering stuff. But, you cannot make changes up to the lock date.
• send the accountant’s review copy to the accountant. This is the data up to the lock date.
• the accountant can make adjustments to the QB file.
• the QB file is return to us and all of the changes are uploaded.
All the while, you are able to continue your business while your account reviews and makes adjustments to your file.
The Mac Version does not have this feature.
Well that sucks. I have a review soon so I will see how this works. I’ll have to not enter stuff and hope she reviews it quickly.
i think there will be an upgrade price since there is one for 2011. It isn’t great though like $50 off. Even that wouldn’t be so bad but they moved the payroll out of the app (unlike Windows but don’t be surprised if they do it for them also) to macpayroll.com where you have to pay a monthly fee which increases depending upon the number of employees. I am forced to use it because my accountant uses it.
Look for a new accountant.
LOL…good one. But try to find one that is not usng Quickbooks.
Quicken makes Quark look like Mother Teresa.
Too little, too late, too expensive for a company that has been terrible in supporting Mac users forever.
..And in 2013 they’ll probably announce that they’ll no longer support it on the Mac platform.
I will not trust Intuit again.
Puh-leeze. QuickBooks is a piece of junk. So QuickBooks 2012 for Mac has finally caught up to QuickBooks 1995 for Windows?
QuickBooks for Mac will never, ever, ever, ever hold a candle to the BEST accounting package for the Mac, which is AccountEdge.
And anybody who believes that Intuit actually gives a damn about the Mac platform clearly hasn’t been paying attention to how Intuit has treated all their loyal Quicken customers of over 20 years. Intuit is a horrible company that makes horrible products with horrible customer service (straight to you from India!).
I wouldn’t give Intuit one more penny of my money if my life depended on it.
Even after all these years, Intuit still doesn’t offer multi-currency support, payroll support on the Mac, the ability to create purchase orders from estimates/invoices, parity with the Windows products, cross-platform file compatibility, and much much much more.
I support REAL COMPANIES that make GREAT PRODUCTS that WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE MAC… such as AccountEdge (for business accounting) and iBank (for personal finances).
Sure, AccountEdge and iBank both have their problems too, but at least they CARE about their Mac customers and WANT to continually make the best products for Mac users. I will ONLY be using AccountEdge and iBank from now on.
Intuit has shown their true colors, and they are a disgusting company. Intuit can go to hell
Intuit: Worth abandoning.
Just like they abandoned Quicken for Mac.
On this we agree…theoretically. But, again, the market speaks differently. I would venture to guess that, if an accountant deals with any software package from their clients, 100% of them accept QB. With MYOB, not so much. This is unfortunate because I used MYOB for 2 years and it is a great package. But, for me, I need/want accountant support. I am a relatively small business owner and have offloaded a lot of work including my accounting. So, the computer operating system is not the major factor in the decision process. The software is. Unfortunately, we had to grin and bear it and buy a PC for the task. We also use VMWare wehn needed. If MYOB had an Accountant’s Review feature like QB, I would petition our accountant to make the change. But, such is not the case.
AccountEdge (it’s not called MYOB anymore) already does this. They will provide a 100% free copy of AccountEdge for your accountant, in either Mac or PC format.
Introduce a load of bugs into QuickBooks for Mac 2011, make it a little more incompatible with QuickBooks for Windows, and rename it QuickBooks for Mac 2012.
Intuits R&D plan.