Comments on: What’s the best small business accounting, bookkeeping software for Mac?

By: Heather Bentley

Heather Bentley — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:53:24 +0000

AccountEdge is accouting/payroll software that works great with Mac’s. Go to their website and download a free trial version. Our company is switching from PC’s to Mac. If you stay with Quick Books, you will get conflicting info from Quick Books Customer Service re:whether payroll can be run on a Mac with Parellel windows. After talking with several CSR’s and getting conflicting answers, we chose to purchase AccountEdge. Their yearly payroll subscription is better priced and you get updates with the payroll service. Quick Books payroll service is $400.18 for one year and $199 for upgrades.

AccountEdge CSR’s are professional, knowledgable and their trial version was easy to navigate. I hope this helps…

By: Blake Snow

Blake Snow — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:20:42 +0000

Hi Laura. Shortly after writing this post, Quickbooks Online starting supporting Mac (specifically the Safari Browser) so I stayed with them. Hope that helps.

By: Laura Rudge

Laura Rudge — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:19:16 +0000

Hi there

I am also looking for a bookkeeping software package that can be used virtually and have just found a website called freeagentcentral.com. A Scottish based company with what seems to be a very easy, logical system that is not too complicated.

Did you find something that works?

By: brooks

brooks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:24:15 +0000

Time to join the virtual desktop world and become OS agnostic. Get VMWare fusion and run windows xp virtually on your mac desktop. This will eliminate the need to boot into windows (run xp as an application).Good friend and biz partner is running this on his MAC.Both Clay and I are running VMWare on Vista X64 and Craig is running VMWare on Linux Fedora Core. I prefer VMWare over Parralells in the MAC environment.

By: Jim Sherrill

Jim Sherrill — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:11:47 +0000

Glad to see another Mac fan. Now get Brooks to update to Macs. I’m on my 5th, started in 1985.

By: cort

cort — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:06:14 +0000

I’ve seen small businesses uses spreadsheets to manage their entire books. Just know it’s an option.

By: Ian Cowley

Ian Cowley — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:26:12 +0000

We’re just changing the companies computers from Windows PC to Mac. There’s been no real issue switching to the Mac except finding accounting software. We’ve been running a rather old version of Quickbooks on the PC, but the reviews for Quickbooks 2007 Mac version were off putting. We’re about to purchase Intuit Quickbooks 2009 and unlike previous versions it looks well thought out with lots of new features. Having the ability to import suppliers address using standard V-Cards, backup to Mobile-Me, iCal reminders etc will allow us to work in a familiar application and save time learning a new package. One problem – we can’t find a UK seller yet. Mind you it’s only the 1st Jan 2009…

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:07:53 +0000

No help with the bookkeeping software, but I encourage you to avoid Office 2008 for Mac. It’s a slow beast that constantly requires updates.

Rumor on the street is that iWork ‘09 will be all web based, like any good app should be!

By: Dobes Vandermeer

Dobes Vandermeer — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:33:16 +0000

Have you considered online accounting software? It can be used from a Mac and a PC – at the same time. That way if you hire an accountant or bookkeeper he/she can just access your books online rather than having to email the data files around (which might not be compatible with your Accountant’s PC version of the software).

Check out our software: http://www.clarityaccounting.com
Or google “online accounting software”

By: Tony Cannata

Tony Cannata — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:45:48 +0000

Double-Entry accounting sounds a lot more intimidating than it really is. So if you don’t mind using that method, I’ve found Gnucash to be a very powerful solution.

Not the prettiest thing on the Mac, but…