Buy Quickbooks For Mac

So, I have not dealt much with QuickBooks, but I'm doing some work for a friend who is switching over to Mac and she is having me help her. I've been able to set up most of her stuff pretty easily.

My question is that she is running QuickBooks 2008 Pro on her old PC, what we're trying to figure out is if it would be: a. Easier to install XP on Parallels and run her Quickbooks from there OR b. Get QuiickBooks 2009 Pro for Mac and convert her old data over I am just curious to know if anyone has done this and if the PC to Mac data conversion was simple or tedious. Thanks for your help! I think I've tried them all. My problem is that I'm just so used to Quicken. I have 3 businesses, all with multiple accounts (one with at least 15), so conversion has to work.

So far I've found nothing that converts the data properly. I've searched here, Intuit, Google, and tried several other Mac financial software vendors. IBank and iBiz looks promising, but I haven't had the time to really investigate.

And the set up for each application I try is different. I feel like if I knew the language, maybe it would do what I need, but it's so hard to tell.

Intense frustration. My problem with that is that I need to run XP and OS X at the same time. Parallels allows me to do that. It would drive me crazy to have to boot into bootcamp every time I needed to use Quicken.

Now, there is an application that is like Parallels that is free, and I've heard it's very good. You might want to try that., I think is the one that a lot of people are happy with. Crossover doesn't seem to work well for me, it's too slow. But others here have told me that I must've done something wrong, because they have been happy running Quicken with it. Quickbooks, I think, is on the silver list. Again, I'm uncertain, but at least that gives you even more to think about. Lots of great suggestions in this thread.

I didn't know so many people were having trouble with QuickBooks on the Mac, and that's sort of a bummer. Luckily, like a few people have already mentioned, you have options that let you virtualize other operating systems. Twott28, since you'll be getting Windows XP either way, I recommend at least checking out the free trial of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac. It lasts 15 days, and gives you access to the full functionality of the full version, including the very spiffy Coherence mode which lets you run Windows apps right on your OS X desktop, and the ability to share, drag and drop files between OSes. You might find that virtualizing Windows gives your Mac a lot of extra flexibility it wouldn't otherwise have. You basically wouldn't have to worry about software OS requirements again. Goinskiing, hopefully your question's been answered already.

I'm a CPA using all versions of PC quickbooks in VMware, and qbooks for mac 9 in os X. Given the choice, the PC version is a better program but 9 mac isn't bad. For clients that don't need windows, mac 9 is working fine. I've converted plenty of files over from PC to Mac without a problem, but going back to PC at times is a problem. The basic message I got from Intuit is that transferring back and forth is dangerous thus my need to run both. A client tried Mac MYOB and though it wasn't horrible, he's back to qbooks.

It wasn't a bad program imo, but required a better accounting background, and their support was, according to the client, not good. For my money, running qbooks 9 for win in Vmware or parallels is the best way to go unless you absolutely despise having windows on your machine. Click to expand.I have never used Fusion, but I don't believe it would make any difference at all to use it over Parallels. I'm almost certain of it. There are many happy users of Fusion around here.

I don't think that Vista or XP would make any difference either. I am running XP, and it runs fine on mine. Frankly, I would be shocked if you noticed any difference using any combination of the above mentioned OS's and virtualization software. Everything should run perfectly normally; I wouldn't give it a second thought. Intuit is not mac worthy! Had Quickbook for mac since January. Twice now my company info has disappeared.

I can see the accounts but they are only showing the opening balance and nothing else. Intuit wants to charge me to figure out where the info went. Nice lady from India was eager enough-all I had to do was give her my credit card info.

I have a backup disk (of course) but won't restore from there. Keeps saying it is from a version prior to 2004, which of course it is not. Because I couldn't transfer any of that info-had to dump it when I switched to the newer version. Even when it was working, couldn't share my info on my desktop with my laptop. DON'T BUY THIS GARBAGE!!! Can anyone recommend a better accounting program? This one bites!!