Quickbooks for Mac v/s QB Windows: Pro/Premier/Enterprise
Area | QB Module/Feature | Available in Mac | Notes |
| Accountant | Accountant's Copy | No | |
| Send your QuickBooks file to your Accountant (roundtrip to/from windows) | Yes | ||
| Import General Journal Entries created from QB Windows | Yes | Mac only supports this in 2014 & 2015 | |
| Accountant version | No | ||
| QB Core functionality | Multi-currency | No | |
| Inventory | Yes | Average cost inventory valuation method | |
| Inventory - Set and Maintain Reorder Points | Yes | ||
| Inventory - Adjust items on hand | Yes | ||
| Inventory Center | No | ||
| Inventory - Units of Measure | No | ||
| Inventory - Manufacturer part number | No | ||
| Inventory Assembly/Bill of Materials | No | ||
| Inventory - Current Availability | No | ||
| Current Availability Window | No | ||
| Go from Estimate to a PO | Yes | ||
| Go from Estimate to a SO | No | ||
| Purchase Orders | Yes | ||
| Batch Invoicing | Yes | ||
| Batch invoicing for Time and Expense | No | ||
| Progress Invoicing/Billing | Yes | ||
| Multiple ship-to addresses | No | ||
| Price Levels | No | ||
| Sales Orders | No | ||
| Billable Time and Expense Preference for auto billing | No | ||
| Billing Rate Level | No | ||
| Time Tracking and billing by customer | Yes | ||
| Batched Timesheet Entry | No | ||
| Mileage Tracking | Yes | ||
| Create Estimates | Yes | ||
| Change Orders on Estimates | No | ||
| Customized & professional looking forms | Yes | You have to create your customized forms when you convert to QB Mac from QB Win. | |
| Attachments | Yes | ||
| Recurring Billing/Memorized Transactions | Yes | ||
| Budgets Yes | |||
| Calendar View | No | Can add to iCal in QB Mac | |
| Collections Center | No | ||
| Company Snapshot | Yes | ||
| Customer Snapshot | No | ||
| Lead Center | No | ||
| Income Tracker | Yes | New in Win and Mac 2014 | |
| Sales Reps and Reporting | Yes | New in Mac 2014 | |
| Reporting - Comparative Balance Sheet and P&L | Yes | ||
| Reporting - Balance Sheet by Class | No | ||
| Reporting - Improved Excel Reporting | No | ||
| Reporting - Industry specific reporting | No | ||
| Reporting - Shared Report Templates with Intuit | No | ||
| Reporting - Search Feature | Yes | Only available in Mac 2014 & 2015 | |
| Job Costing Module and Reports | Yes | No job costing for payroll, so companies with employees don't see true job profitability. | |
| Class Tracking | Yes | ||
| Custom Fields | Yes | ||
| Multi-User Access | Yes | Mac allows up to 5 users, Pro only 3, Premier 5 | |
| Online Banking | Yes | You have to set up Online banking when you convert to QB Mac from QB Win. | |
| Bill Pay | No | ||
| Bank Reconciliation | Yes | ||
| Bank Reconciliation -- List of Previous Monthly Reconciles | Yes | ||
| Bank Reconciliation--Undo previous | Yes | ||
| In Product Help | Yes | QB Mac has new feature called Set Up and Go. Also improved Guide Me and linked to QB Little Square. | |
| Prepare and Print 1096 | Yes | ||
| Prepare, Print, and E-File 1099s | Yes | ||
| QB Search feature | Yes | ||
| Payroll | Desktop integrated payroll | No | *If customer goes from QBDT Payroll to Mac |
| Intuit Online Payroll integration (Mac Payroll) | Yes | No job costing available for Mac, but available for Win | |
| Assisted payroll (desktop) | No | ||
| Intuit Full Service Payroll integration (IFSP) | Yes | ||
| Payments | MAS | *QB Mac runs only one transaction at a time, whereas QB Win allows batch transactions. *QB Win user can download transactions into QB that they ran on the QBMS website. *QB Win can issue a credit back to the card from inside QB via the credit memo window | |
| Yes | |||
| Go Payment | Yes | ||
| IPN (Online Invoice Payments) | Yes | *QB Win allows user to select different payment options (bank account v. credit card) from within QB. So they can select an option specific to that invoice. In QB Mac, you can only allow IPN or not on an invoice by invoice. *QB Mac does not allow IPN for automatically created memorized transactions. Users must manually turn IPN back on for those created invoices. | |
| Other | QB POS | No | |
| Shipping Manager | No | ||
| Export to Turbo Tax for Business | No | Note: there is no TT for Business for the Mac, so there is nothing to integrate into | |
| Intuit Partner Platform Apps | No | ||
| Intuit Data Protect | No | ||
| QuickBooks Plus offering | No |
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