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| From: Intuit
List Price: $199.95
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 266
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X Intel, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X Intel
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100722
Model: 299515
UPC: 028287015593
EAN: 0028287015593
ASIN: B000HC0LW8
Release Date: October 10, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Print checks, pay bills, track sales and expenses, and create estimates, invoices, purchase orders, and reports | | • | Includes payroll tools and tools for employee timesheets | | • | Track inventory and set reorder points, download imported bank and credit-card transactions | | • | Easily transfer data to Excel, synchronize with OS X Address Book and Outlook | | • | Backup to .Mac and add reminders to iCal, import Quicken files to QuickBooks for Mac |
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Product Description
- Marketing Information: With QuickBook 2007 Pro Edition for Mac, itandquot;s simple to create a unique look for all your business communications. The easy-to-use Layout Designer lets you customize invoices, estimates, statements and more to look as polished as your business. Built specifically for the Mac, it works like you expect it to with a formatting palette, drag-and-drop interface and easy-to-use toolbar. You can now choose to have the customer payment amount automatically filled in when you select invoices to save you time when your customers pay in full. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Financial Management - Software Name: QuickBook 2007 Pro Edition for Mac - Features and Benefits: - Enhance your professional image - add logos, graphics, data fields, personal messages and more - Save time by creating and printing deposit slips in QuickBooks - Itandquot;s easier than ever to track payments by accepting one customer payment for open invoices across multiple jobs - Be more confident by mastering existing and new tasks using step-by-step tutorials in the interactive Tutorial Center - Select cash or checks to deposit, record cash-back transactions, and print either a deposit summary or slip from your printer - QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac is redesigned as a Universal application, youandquot;ll get more done in less time on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs - Platform Support: Mac Warranty - Standard Warranty: 90 Day(s)
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Built for and by Mac users, QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac provides standard accounting and business tools for organizing finances with ease. Save time completing routing tasks, payroll, and paperwork so you can spend more time on your business. With QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac, it's now easier for you and your client to share QuickBooks data. They can send you a Mac file, and you can send it back from your QuickBooks for Windows edition. And, redesigned as a Universal application, QuickBooks unleashes the power of both Intel- and Power PC-based Macs to deliver optimal performance. Compare QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac to other products (PDF). You can also view an overview of key features (requires Flash). 
Work on the platform you prefer, the Mac! View larger. | Who's right for Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac?
Small business Mac users seeking ways to make their everyday business tasks even easier and save time can benefit from Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac. This latest version unleashes the power of both Intel- and Power PC-based Macs, delivering optimal performance and improving productivity. The Layout Designer quickly creates custom forms such as customer estimates, invoices, statements and more. Plus, you can easily create and print deposit slips or summaries. Quickbooks Pro 2007 for Mac offers easier tracking of payments by accepting one customer payment for open invoices across multiple jobs, and you can save time by automatically calculating and keeping track of invoices when a customer has paid in full. Mac users looking for simpler to use and improved solutions to existing financial software will also find much to like. An interactive Tutorial Center delivers step-by-step instructions on how to get the full benefits of new and improved features. Plus, you get simple, fast, and safe data transfer from existing financial management software to QuickBooks Pro 2007 for Mac--even from Quicken. 
More than 100 reports are available to help you understand your business activities. View larger. | 
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Learn about QuickBooks in the interactive Tutorial Center. View larger. | Save Time
Save time completing routine accounting tasks such as tracking and managing expenses, invoicing, and printing checks. Process your payroll right within QuickBooks using QuickBooks Payroll for Mac. Process your payroll from within QuickBooks using QuickBooks Payroll for Mac. Handle your end-to-end payroll needs, from paychecks to W-2 forms, directly from QuickBooks or any Web browser, anywhere with QuickBooks Payroll for Mac, powered by PayCycle, Inc. Quickly create estimates, invoices, and purchase orders. Duplicate and edit previous estimates to create new ones without rewriting all the details. When it's time to bill your customer, turn any estimate into an invoice with one click or create a new invoice using a familiar form. You can also track and make payments with ease. Paying vendors is as simple as filling out familiar on-screen checks, printing them, and dropping them in the mail. Track inventory, set reorder limits and create purchase orders. Track inventory automatically as you log sales, and when it's time to reorder, create a purchase order with one click. Edit as needed and print. Or e-mail the purchase order as a PDF file. Easily create and print deposit slips in QuickBooks. Select cash or checks to deposit, record cash-back transactions, and print either a deposit summary or slip from your printer. Stay organized, accurate and on top of your business
Choose from more than 100 standard reports to see where your business stands. Quickly import downloaded bank and credit card transactions. QuickBooks has built-in reporting functionality, making it easier than ever to proactively manage your business. Identify your most profitable customers, see who still owes you money and determine where you money goes in only a few clicks. Print and e-mail reports to work with your accountant. Save time and avoid data entry errors. Instead of typing in your bank and credit card transactions, download them from more than 1,000 participating financial institutions that support Web Connect and easily import them into QuickBooks. You can also synchronize contacts automatically with OS X Address Book or with any other application that supports Tiger Sync. Update a contact in QuickBooks and Address Book is updated instantly...and vice-versa. Customize QuickBooks to meet your unique needs
Personalize forms, like estimates, invoices, statements and more, by adding logos, images, and fonts with the new Layout Designer. Create your own customer forms, quickly and easily, with the new Layout Designer. Built for the Mac, it uses familiar tools--like a formatting palette, drag-and-drop interface, and easy-to-use toolbar. Choose from more than 40 icons to customize your toolbar for quick access to the tasks that you do most often. Resize and reposition the toolbar to fit with how you work. You can also quickly customize reports and graphs. Customize any report to show only the data you want to see. Sort, reorder, or hide columns with a mouse click. Set date ranges and filter as needed. Plus, you can clear the clutter from your customer, vendor, and item lists by deactivating unused items to hide them from view. Sort lists by column to get quick access to critical business data. Work on the platform you prefer
Get the most out of your Mac by syncing your contacts with Address Book, backing up files to your .Mac account and adding reminders directly to iCal. Easily share your data with your accountant or other Windows-based users. Designed from the ground up by Mac engineers, built for Tiger (Mac OS X v10.4) and now available as a universal application, QuickBooks for Mac operates as you expect and looks as clean as the Mac you run it on. The new universal version runs on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. You can share your data with your accountant or other Windows-based users, too. Send your QuickBooks data to your Windows-based accountant and open the updated file on your Mac. New Features, Big Improvements
Gain confidence using step-by-step tutorials in the interactive Tutorial Center. Understand how QuickBooks is organized, learn how to complete everyday business tasks, and understand how to use new features through simple, interactive step-by-step instructions. Get up and running quickly with the New Company Setup Assistant, which allows you to answer a series of simple questions to have QuickBooks tailor itself to your unique business needs. With Quickbooks, you can now quickly access comprehensive help whenever you need it. The QuickBooks Help feature enables you to simply type a question and quickly receive detailed help, tips, and troubleshooting information right within QuickBooks. You can also easily import data from previous versions of QuickBooks for Mac, QuickBooks for Windows, or Quicken for Mac. Satisfaction Guaranteed
QuickBooks is the financial-management solution recommended by more accountants than any other, and Intuit guarantees your satisfaction or your money back. Free QuickBooks callback support is also included for 30 days from software registration.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 Nobody gets more blood per stone than Intuit October 31, 2006
orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States)
91 out of 96 found this review helpful
I upgraded to this from QB 2006 for one and only reason: the form layout designer. That's a good thing, too, because that's about the only thing they added to this version aside from recompiling for Intel. I could tell from the screenshots that the layout app was kludgy and awful and rushed to market by a bunch of outsourced engineers who have little to no experience in Mac GUI design, but it was still better than the old method of simply typing in column widths numerically and guessing at how the application was going to interpret them. Is it $170 worth of better? Probably not. It's still pretty limiting with what you can do in terms of formatting (tracking or kerning controls would certainly have been nice since there's no way to tell it NOT to draw the label for each field, thusly making it impossible to pick up the slack with an Illustrator or InDesign built PDF background), and it seems to have a fair degree of difficulty in determining the appropriate baseline for OpenType fonts. You also have zero control over how form rows print, just columns. Definitely a step up, but it has so many annoying little quirks that it ends up being nearly as frustrating as the old method was anyway.
Intuit has also seen fit to drop the once formidable printed manual from this release. Instead of a hefty tome full of in-depth knowledge, we now get a 100 page booklet which dedicates over half its space to installation and setup related tasks. Think they made up for it with a PDF version? Think again. The PDF is identical to the printed guide. Apparently Intuit wants you to use their Help content instead of a manual, which I might not mind so much ordinarily, but the Help files are pretty sparse, and searching for "Layout" in an attempt to figure out how I was supposed to re-order columns on my invoices using the new layout designer actually turned up NO results. Nice job.
Since MYOB is pretty much unusable, Intuit knows they have a guaranteed cash flow with every new release regardless of whether or not they put any effort whatsoever into it. This one is no exception. If you don't need to customize your forms, don't bother paying for 2007. It still doesn't have mileage tracking, credit card processing or any of the other myriad features the Windows version has had for years.
UPDATE: When generating an income tax report for 2006 (detail or summary makes no difference) QB 2007 thinks that EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION I HAVE EVER ENTERED PRIOR TO 2006 took place on 03/07/06. These transactions are still recorded correctly in the individual account reports, but the figures it's telling me to enter into my return are obviously way, way, WAY off. This means I have to get out my calculator and go through everything manually--precisely the thing that I purchased accounting software to avoid. Good job, Himanshu.
Download the trial version and decide for yourself November 6, 2006
Paulo (South Dakota)
79 out of 80 found this review helpful
You'll have to search for the free download on the Intuit/Quickbooks web site, it's not obvious, but you can download a 30-day trial of QB Pro 7 for Mac and see if it will work better for you or not. There are about 5 steps to actually obtaining a download (log in at Intuit, request a download, wait for an email, click on a link, then seek out the actual download page you want, then download) but at least you don't have to shell out $160. first. (Note that Amazon had the best price for the new version, NOT Intuit, which of course does not offer a reduced upgrade price for prior users, whom they apparently could care less about). I jumped through the hoops and have been using the new version (trial) for about a week in my small business. Although the forms designer is idiotic in some ways, it does, after about 2 hours of fooling with it, allow you to generate forms and other documents that look much more graphically pleasing than Ver. 5 (my previous version, I skipped the previous upgrade). The forms can now include color graphics and photographs (tip: it seemed to me that importing a BMP file looked better than JPEG or TIF. No idea why). As a graphic design-related business, I thought this was worth the purchase price alone, although I stress the "engineers" at Intuit should ask someone from the graphics department for some input.
If they'd actually included some additional "upgrade" beyond the forms designer, I'd have gone to 4 stars, but there isn't much else that is new in this release.
I will say that the upgrade process went smoothly, no hitches. There is a "backup to Windows" option which also seems easier to use than in Ver. 5. It generated a file of over 100 mb. however, so I guess the days of emailing it to my accountant are over. Haven't tested to see if he can open this file on Windows as yet.
Adequate, but disappointing June 1, 2007
Eugene Barnes (Columbus, OH USA)
71 out of 71 found this review helpful
I originally purchased QuickBooks Pro for Mac (version 4) back in the '90s because I was impressed with the ease and intuitiveness of Quicken and wanted something just as easy (within reason) for my business. After using QB for a year or two, I was very disappointed to hear Intuit had discontinued the QB for Mac product.
Fast forward a few years. After a temporary slump, the Mac is back on top with new and innovative products. I'm in love with my new PowerMac that significantly boosts my productivity. And I'm still stuck with an aging QuickBooks.
Like other "fair weather friends" who abandoned Mac and then returned when it was hot again, Intuit decided to release an all-new QuickBooks for Mac Version 5. This one would run under the new Mac OS X! And... that's about it. While Windows users benefited from several years of upgrades and new features, the "new" Mac version did not.
One of the advantages of using QuickBooks is the ability to bundle up your files and send them to your accountant for review. But not if you were on a Mac. Nope. Unless your accountant also had the Mac version, you were out of luck.
Intuit expected us to be all excited over running QB under OS X and more than willing to pay full price for the privilege. That's right... no upgrade pricing. I couldn't see shelling out a couple hundred bucks for the same tired software with some lipstick slapped on it.
So I stuck it out with QB4 running under Classic OS9 while Intuit released new versions each year. Each one having only a subset of the Windows version features. Each one requiring you to pay full price to upgrade.
I finally broke down and purchased QuickBooks for Mac 2007 for these reasons:
* I decided it was time to upgrade the rest of my
apps to native OS X and stop using Classic.
* QB for Mac 2007 finally added the ability to
fully customize forms.
* QB for Mac 2007 finally had a usable ability
to bundle up and share records with an accountant
using the Windows version.
* My only other alternative was switching to a
competitive application that was more expensive
and more difficult to use.
As much as I wanted to switch to another vendor, I relented and stayed with QuickBooks. And it works OK. The "Layout Designer" is awkward, but at least I can now make my invoices, etc. look as professional as the rest of my business.
But when I decide to expand my business beyond myself, I'll have the problem of how to share QuickBooks with others... it still doesn't allow multiple user access, while the Windows version has for years.
And get this... QB for Mac 2007 still does not have a timer feature so you can accurately time hourly work and add it to your records. I have to time my labor externally and manually add it into QB. The Windows version... you guessed it. Intuit claims there is no demand among Mac users for this feature. Considering how many creative professionals use Macintosh and charge by the hour, I find that hard to believe.
As long as Intuit treats the Mac community like a bad smell from behind a couch, I will be on the lookout for a better product to replace QB. For now... it will do.
 Great for Medical Industry February 5, 2007
RonAnnArbor (Ann Arbor, MI United States)
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
I read through a lot of the criticism on this site - and I honestly have to say I don't agree with most of it for my practkce. As an owner of a three-person medical clinic, I have found that this version of QBP for Mac does absolutely everything I would want - the interface looks good and works well -- the ability to customize invoices is wonderful. Granted - we do simple billing with no variable rates, no stock prices as someone listed below, and no changes in product (i.e. therapy or testing). Statements look great, bookkeeping takes just minutes a week, and everything is compatible with my accountant. Download the trial and see for yourself if this is something you will use or not.
A great program for the business owner that plans on never getting a new computer. June 27, 2007
Mark Twain
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
This is a great program, but it has one EXTREMELY annoying issue that has resulted in my decision never to buy this product again. The issue is that if you get a new hard drive, a new computer, or reformat your hard drive, the program will be virtually unusable and unlockable until you go through a very complicated process that thus far has required me to call tech support (located in India) every single time because it is so complicated that it is impossible to remember. They put into place the most rigorous anti-piracy code I have ever seen in a piece of software. So rigorous that even the legal owner is locked out without a key. If you are a small business owner like me, you update your hard drive (either due to a crash or a new larger upgrade needed for additional storage) or you upgrade your system altogether on a fairly regular basis. How many business people never need to upgrade their hard drive or get a new computer? Well, buyers beware: if you have this program, you will be getting yourself into a nightmare if you decide to upgrade your hard drive or change systems. Out of the over $5,000 worth of software I own, this is the only program that causes me this headache. Time is money to a small business owner, and I just don't have 3 hours to spend on fixing this program every time I upgrade my system just because someone at this company has a bug up their rear end about software piracy. merely uninstalling and reinstalling this program is not sufficient. You have to go into about 5 different obscure folders on your computer and either change or delete esoteric bits of data that you can never find without the help of Indian tech support. Oh--and by the way: you only get a little while of free support. Every time after that it costs you money. next time I go to buy small business accounting software I will buy another program or I will go back to handwritten recordkeeping if there are no other decent programs available for Mac.
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