QuickBooks Pro 6.0 2004 for Mac

by Intuit

Product Features

• Financial management system for businesses
• Import data from popular office software
• Easily manage accounts payable and receivable
• Customize reports, prices and more
• Automatically track information for taxes and reporting

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000EI9W4
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 10, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,978 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

QuickBooks: Pro 6.0 for Mac offers advanced tools for fast and easy financial management to boost efficiency and accuracy. Enjoy the convenience of having all your information in one place. Advantages include:

Easily share information with others

• NEW! Now you can share your QuickBooks Mac data with Windows users, such as your accountant.
• NEW! Works with Microsoft Excel. Export reports to Excel - then change the format or modify the data without re-entering data.

Tools to increase efficiency

• IMPROVED! E-mail invoices, statements and reports, so you can instantly share with others.
• NEW! Automatic file backup. Now you have the option to automatically back up your data, for further protection against data loss.
• NEW! Check for software updates. Easily stay up-to-date with QuickBooks and ensure you are running the latest version.
• Also included: Time tracking, job costing and estimating

Additional report options:

• IMPROVED! More customization options for reports. Easily sort a report by any column or change the order of columns by "dragging and dropping."
• Easily choose a report with Report Finder

Easily manage everyday accounting tasks: create invoices and reports; easily print checks and pay bills; track invoices and bills until paid

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Limited ability and cross-platform flop, December 12, 2003

By 

Annelise S. (TN, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 6.0 2004 for Mac (CD-ROM)

While it's great to see Quickbooks on the Mac OS X platform, the program has two fatal flaws that most Mac users should think seriously about prior to purchasing and expecting it to work back and forth between Windows and Mac (roud-tripping) -

First, it won't allow for the download of credit card or bank statements like each Windows version since 2002. I suspect that was a very highly requested feature since it was touted at the beginning of the beta period but has not be implemented. Why?

Second, if a Windows file is open in the Mac, any downloaded credit card or bank statement information that was present on the Windows file that has not been input into the chart of accounts is lost when the file is open on a Mac (and therefore not even available on Windows when the file is sent back from a Mac to a PC). At least Intuit could have put that info in a "holding" location for use when the file got back to Windows rather than stripping it out completely.

So much for cross-platform compatibility and round-tripping.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Regarding the Payroll component, December 13, 2003

By 

Stephen Holland (Naperville, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 6.0 2004 for Mac (CD-ROM)

Small business owners need to be aware that this program uses Aatrix Top Pay for the payroll function. The payroll package has a goofy user interface, but what bothers me is that you need to pay Aatrix about $130 a year to get tax table data updated. The program has no options to the tax table information. It strikes me pretty steep to pay $130 yearly for updates to the tax tables. The payroll function also makes mistakes on printouts of the check stubs when checks need to be reprinted. It also drops summaries of amounts paid year to date when something like a bonus is not included in a pay period. Aatrix did not reply to eMails regarding these bugs. I have searched for another pay package that can be used with QB Pro 6 for the Mac, but no one else provides a solution.

The Aatrix gets by on payroll, but has definite problems and you will pay over a hundred a year for software updates. There are no other software options for Payroll in Quickbooks Pro 6 for Mac.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NO Quickbooks multi-user on Macintosh network, December 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: QuickBooks Pro 6.0 2004 for Mac (CD-ROM)

A nasty little secret - Intuit does not support multi-user access in Quickbooks for Macintosh, so a small business with 2 - 3 people can't all have the financials open - must use one at a time, have to close out to let someone else open the system. Very disappointing! They seem to have no interest or commitment to fixing this flaw.

Also the web version only works on PCs, so that isn't an option either.

Good package overall, but this is a killer problem for us - we're looking to switch to something else - MYOB, etc.