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QuickBooks for Mac 2012

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Organize your finances all in one place
Easily create professional looking invoices and track sales and expenses
Get reliable records for tax time
Purchase additional seats to give as many as five users simultaneous access
Easy to set up, learn and use

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Easily manage your businessProductInformationQuickBooks for Mac 2012 is small business accounting that lets youorganize your finances all in once place so you can quickly find whatyou need. Easily create invoices and track your businesssales and expenses - and get reliable records for tax time. QuickBooks for Mac 2012 is set up in minutes and is easy tolearn and use along with looking and working like you'd expect forsoftware built for the Mac operating system. Save time andget your business finances organized with QuickBooks for Mac 2012.Product HighlightsSet up in Minutes Easy to Learn and Use No accounting knowledge necessary Guide Me shows you how to create invoices record expensesand more Get tips tricks and advice on using QuickBooks for Macwith Little SquareOrganize Everything in One Place and Save Time on Everyday Tasks Manage vendors and expenses easily - enter track and paybills Easily create and customize estimates invoices and otherforms Get plete and reliable records at tax time Download your online banking transactions directly intoQuickBooksTrack How Your Business is Doing and Get Financial Tax and SalesReports in One Click Get the information you need with easy-to-use reports View ine and expense trends by category Get a real-time snapshot of your business with CompanySnapshotBuilt for Your Mac Looks and works like your Mac Synchronize contacts with Address Book Add reminders to iCal Back up files to MobileMe Export data to Numbers or ExcelProduct FeaturesEasy to Get Started Get started fast with Guided Setup Get help pleting key tasks with Guide MeSave Time on Everyday Tasks Track sales sales taxes and expenses Be ready at tax time with easy reliable reports Organize all your data in one place with Customer Vendorand Employee Centers Allows more than one user at a time (up to 5 each soldseparately) Create estimates and turn them into invoices in one click Customize invoices and estimates with your pany lo

Product Details

Product Length:	5.38 inches
Product Width:	2.0 inches
Product Height:	7.5 inches
Product Weight:	0.3 pounds
Package Length:	7.7 inches
Package Width:	5.6 inches
Package Height:	2.1 inches
Package Weight:	0.3 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 147 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard / Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.0

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179 of 185 found the following review helpful:

Not Happy Oct 07, 2011 By Magikchef
I just upgraded to QB 2011 for Mac in January...because I was forced to. After working on my previous 2007 version a few times in Snow Leopard, I started getting dialogue boxes saying I needed to register my QB, which I ignored because it was already registered. What the dialogue box did not say was that all of my data would begin corrupting after a set number of openings. OK. I didn't like it. I felt connived as did an overwhelming # of reviewers when 2011 came out.

I've rationalized Intuit's strategy and moved on...until now. Less than 10 months later, no free upgrade, not even a moderately priced upgrade. No, Intuit wants another $200 in less than a year for a few more goodies, which, by the way, would be nice improvements.

I like the program! It functions well! I hate this company! BTW, are the posts prior to mine real? They sound more like company generated commercials than real customers. I'm willing to be wrong on this.

I don't doubt this version is actually really good. But I resent being herded into constantly shelling out full price...in less than a year!

5 stars for the product minus 2 stars for economic ethics.

81 of 83 found the following review helpful:

Please shoot me if I ever buy another Intuit product. Good software, extortionist company Dec 11, 2011 By Richard P. Wilson
I am a small business farm owner who owns QuickBooks for the Mac 2009. When Lion came out, instead of upgrading its software to work with Lion like ALL my other software makers, Intuit chose to force me to buy a new copy of their software. On their website, where the cost of their software is so much higher than on Amazon, they offer a $30 upgrade discount that brings the cost of the new product to a sum still higher than I can buy a new copy on Amazon. Because my accountant uses QuickBooks, they have me over a barrel and are using that advantage to extort me to buy another copy rather than supporting 2 year software, a fact that infuriates me. On top of that, my wife uses Quicken for the Mac 2007. She tried to upgrade to a more recent version but found the new versions don't offer bill-pay integrated into the accounting registers like the old software. Why? Because Intuit now offers a $9.95 PER MONTH service that does bill pay. Clearly being able to force users to pay $119.40 a year for that service plus for new software to use that service is an extraordinary money maker for them but extortion to me. I had to buy Quickbooks this time but am moving to MoneyDance instead of Quicken and hope for a better alternative when Intuit stops supporting my recent purchase in 2 years. Richard Wilson

110 of 115 found the following review helpful:

No online billpay. Useless product from a confused company. Oct 25, 2011 By Doctor.Generosity
Quicken is the personal finance program and QuickBooks the business program. People who rely on either one are entrusting their most sensitive data to a software company. Unfortunately, as Mac users of Quicken know by now, Intuit has basically discontinued the product and betrayed their longtime Mac user base. For the new, Lion compatible version of Quicken (called Essentials), key capabilities such as online Bill Pay are no longer supported. This is a huge problem for me. I have had a smooth system in place for a number of years paying bills with a click through my financial institution online via Quicken Bill Pay. This problem is preventing me from upgrading my main desktop iMac to Lion from Snow Leopard.

When QuickBooks for Mac 2012 came out, I thought I might see a way to work around the problem. Surely they must support online billpay for business users! I would just accept the extra, unneeded complexity of using a business as opposed to a personal finance program, import my files into QuickBooks, and be able to use online billpay with a Lion compatible product. Thus I secured a copy of QuickBooks for Mac 2012.

Unfortunately, no. I now have delivery of QuickBooks for Mac 2012 and have more carefully studied what it does and does not do. Online Bill Pay is not found in the Mac version of Quickbooks either! It is astonishing that Intuit would strike this essential feature from all its current Mac products leaving its loyal customers high and dry. What a bizarre "marketing strategy," to continue to offer Mac products, but with downgraded functionality which causes customers to lose facilities they have depended on. I may now have to set up a PC only and exclusively for Quicken Windows, just to keep accessing my years of data and to continue using Bill Pay. I am extremely annoyed. Intuit seems to care nothing about the bad will they have engendered by mistreating a segment of their customer base. This is not the stuff of which great corporations are made.

The bottom line is that Intuit cannot be trusted to continue to support Mac users; don't trust them with your financial life.

Note added Dec 17: I have been able to continue using Quicken Billpay on my iMac by the following method. It is possible on the Mac to have different drive partitions running under different versions of OS X. First I created a second, smaller partition on my drive and copied the main partition to it. At this point both were operating under Snow Leopard 10.6. I then stripped down the second partition, mainly retaining older software which only runs under Rosetta, primarily Quicken, Quickbooks, and MS Office 2004. My second partition will remain running under Snow Leopard for the forseeable future, and the main partition was then updated to Lion 10.7 with no problems. To use Quicken and Billpay, I simply reboot under the second partition. This is a bit cumbersome and inconvenient but should work OK for a year or two until some non-Intuit company comes out with proper financial software for Mac.

Note added Dec. 23: I received an email from Intuit today, sent to all Quicken for Mac users, which said they realize they screwed up for their Mac customers and are planning to release a Lion compatible version of Quicken 2007 for Mac next spring. Good news and happy to hear they read these reviews.

Note added March 16 2012: The Lion compatible version of Quicken 2007 for Mac is now available but unfortunately seems to have serious bugs which causes it to crash. Advice: Wait for updates. At the same time my Quicken 2006 has stopped connecting reliably to Quicken BillPay due to some problem at the mothership. What a bunch of dorks.

47 of 51 found the following review helpful:

The software is buggy, but the company is user hostile! Jan 24, 2012 By Tiferet
ThiS is what I have t sayt to will Lynes:

HORSEPUCKEY, HORSEPUCKEY, HORSEPUCKEY!!!

Your company - Intuit - is dishonest in the extreme. I have unfortunately used Quickbooks and its predecessor to manage the accounting for my two companies for EIGHTEEN years now.

Among my companies, I owned "Internet" one of the early Macintosh software developers. We created the industry standard for electronic mail for Macs and PCs, which we sold to Microsoft in 1990. so I have plenty of experience as a software developer, and know what I am looking at...

I lived through Intuit's 6 year exile - wherein they refused to provide ANY support whatsoever for Macintosh customers, and have since been FORCED to pay FULL RETAIL price for EVERY upgrade - up through QuickBooks Pro 2007, and several of its updates. (I am now on the last 2007 version issued - v.9.0.6R7) This version has quite a number of serious bugs, which long ago your technical people admitted to, and repeatedly promised that I would receive -- free -- an upgrade to correct the problems. And to add insult to injury, I also experience the program periodically deciding that I am NOT a registered user and putting me into trial mode, and ultimately deliberately corrupting my datafile after a certain number of uses. This is beyond disgusting behavior for a big company like this. Makes me understand why some people are driven to firebomb buildings...! (laughter) This all is especially disgusting as the program is intentionally built to act this way.

Ultimately the Intuit tech people admitted that they would not be EVER sending out the promised upgrade, that they were too busy finishing the "next" version of the software, and they would sent THAT one to me FREE as a fix.

Well, despite my many calls, that version never arrived. Finally after almost EIGHTEEN months of calls to Intuit, I was told that I could download the then brand new 2011 version of QuickBooks as a fix, free of charge. It is a good thing I knew your company's crappy code well enough to first ensure that I had MULTIPLE backups of my datafiles. Your 2011 version would not run properly literally every time I downloaded it (3 times), and each time it totally trashed my datafiles in EXACTLY the same way. Intuit's tech support finally admitted to me that there were known bugs, but that "they would be fixing them."

After 6 months of calls, to no avail - no "fixed" or updated versions were made available to me - I was told that there would be no further work done on the 2011 product as they were already working their "2012" product, and that THIS would contain the bug fixes I needed, and I was assured a free upgrade when it became available.

After Intuit finally announced the 2012 Mac product, I called up for support and a bug fix upgrade (for free, as promised FOR SO LONG) and first was told during 3 separate calls that (after 18 years as a registered user) that there was NO RECORD OF ME as a registered user. Magically on the fourth call, I somehow once again existed as a registered user, but now Intuit refused to keep their promise and send me the upgrade for free - the upgrade I had waited almost TWO YEARS for... And now Intuit wanted me to pay $200 for an upgrade to fix my problems. THIS IS PATENTLY ABUSIVE. There are no significant feature upgrades that mean anything in terms of actual functionality in this version of the program (over my current version), and Intuit owed me a bug fix upgrade, having left me to live with many untenable bugs for more than TWO YEARS. After my nightmarish experiences with Intuit's 2011 version of Quickbooks, I decided to stay with the bugs I knew, and keep using my 2007 version.

Recently, several weeks ago, as my office wanted and needed to upgrade to OSX 10.7 for a number of reasons, So we called around to our software vendors to ensure all our daily software worked under OSX 10.7. When I called Intuit to ask if you would run under 10.7. I was told resoundingly "YES" - that my version of QuickBooks *WOULD* ABSOLUTELY RUN UNDER OSX V.10.7. Based upon my experiences with Intuit -- you can speak to several different tech reps, and receive a different answer from each one... And having run a successful Mac software company, I could always tell that Intuit's tech reps are usually reading scripts and as a rule just don't have a clue what they are actually talking about, and few even truly have used a Macintosh much, if at all. In fact most sem to be in foreign countries - never a good sign (foreign accent + obvios script readin = "twilight zone" level of support!). Well, I spoke with THREE separate Intuit tech support reps, who each ASSURED me that my version WOULD ABSOLUTELY run under OSX 10.7. I was also told that our existing Turbo Tax versions for the last several years would run under 10.7 as well.

So, we upgraded to 10.7 ten days ago. And to my shock, Ouickbooks WILL NOT RUN at all. I called and complained and the liars denied ever telling me that my software would work with 10.7, and told me that my only alternative is, you guessed it, to pay them $200 for an "upgrade"... SO NOW I AM NOW LEFT WITH *NO* FUNCTIONAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM and no ability to process ad records deposits, write checks, make payroll properly, etc etc etc. I have called Intuit several times and keep repeatedly denying that they EVER told me that my version would run under OSX 10.7, and offered to do me a favor by giving me an addition $10 off the $199 "upgrade" price.

This is a travesty, and dishonest beyond belief. No amount of being escalated (generally to people from other countries who were clearly just reading scripts), would find a HUMAN BEING who would recognize that as a long-term registered user -- one who had paid FULL retail price for upgrades far too many times -- that Intuit owes me an upgrade, and has some responsibility for my current nightmare, especially as their staff three times assured me that my version would run under 10.7.

And as a result, Intuit, you owe me a free upgrade to your current 2012 version, or at at the very least you owe me an upgrade at a MODEST and fair "upgrade" price.

I am suck in the worst way - while I could purchase a "better" accounting program (one without bugs, and that is more Macintosh), I would have to re-key all my data. And as I have EIGHTEEN years of data, PLUS my TurboTax files, this is not exactly an option. So I am effectively stuck with Intuit.

My old company is still an Apple developer, and I can assure you that if you (Intuit) do not handle this in an honorable fashion, just on principle, I will expend any amount of money and effort necessary to inform the public as to your reputation and slimy sales tactics, and your refusal to support purchasers of your software. I will do this on the web, I will lobby at Apple to have Intuit eradicated from their sales channel, and I will do so at the large mail order houses as well as in the press and online user forums. I will be tireless in my campaign.

Intuit has become an monolith who only cares about revenues, and who clearly feels no need to "DO THE RIGHT THING"... IT IS TIME THAT Intuit SUFFERED THE CONSEQUENCES of their actions. And, as my experience seems to be pretty uniform among users, I am sure that many will join in with the crusade that I am about to start. I have spoken with the Attorney General's Consumer protection Department, and this may qualify as a train case. They also advised me to file a lawsuit, and exactly what kind to file. Intuit will have to come to massachusetts to defend themselves in court, and I will paper them to death, and run their legal bills up to heaven!

As I said, I will be suing Intuit in Massachusetts courts for damages and failure to comply with the terms of your user agreement. Prepare to hire and send an attorney - I will paper you yo death, and this will cost you a fortune.

ANY OTHER USERS TERESTED IN BEING A PARTY TO THE SUIT, AND/OR AN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S INVESTIGATION INTO INTUIT'S PRACTICES??? IF SO CONTACT ME AND LET ME KNOW.

This has become a matter of principle. Those who have no honor deserve to be treated as such.

Intuit, if you would like to contact me in an effort to resolve the horrible position you have left me in as a direct result of your actions, you my write to me at:

simpatico2@mac.com

If I hear from you I will supply you with my cell, real email and other information.

Steven in Massachusetts

27 of 28 found the following review helpful:

Still archaic and buggy Dec 18, 2011 By Tim Bueler, Business Owner
I upgraded to the 2012 version from the 2010 version hoping Intuit has FINALLY seen the light. They haven't. For whatever reason Intuit seems to view the Mac version of their accounting software as the useless step-child. While the 2012 version is decidedly improved, it is still ARCHAIC compared to their 1995 Windows version. From reading the forums I have found that numerous people, including myself, have had a problem where QB credits a customer without using the credits. Hard to explain but the result is that the customer shows a zero balance, but has a perpetual credit that refuses to go away. I had learned to work around it in the 2010 version, but it has come back to life in the less than two weeks since I "upgraded". Intuit offered back in 2010 to fix my problem but only if I send them an additional several hundred $$$$ on top of the several hundred dollars I have already given them. As a business owner, I don't have the time to sit on IGNORE for hours on end and, besides that, I never learned to speak East Indian. Additionally, despite the name "Intuit", the Mac version of Quickbooks is anything but intuitive. As I said, the 2012 version is an improvement, but still archaic by comparison. If you haven't yet converted your accounting program to Mac, don't. You'll be disappointed. The next best suggestion, if you have to have an Intuit product and want to use your Mac, would be to get the windows version and run it on Parrallels. Intuit for Mac has a STEEP learning curve and requires numerous work-arounds. Their product is the ONLY thing about my Macs I hate.

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