Stacy Kildal is owner/operator of Kildal Services LLC—an accounting and technology consulting company that specializes in all things QuickBooks. From 2012-2017, Stacy has been named one of CPA Practice Advisor’s Most Powerful Women In Accounting. Stacy is one of the three hosts for the QB Show and has also been featured frequently on Intuit’s Accountant Blog, Community 'Ask the Expert' forums, at various Intuit Academy To Go podcasts, as well as hosting a number of Intuit Small Business Online Town Hall sessions. She is a big fan of working mobile and has been recognized by Intuit as being an expert on QuickBooks Online, having written Intuit’s original courses for the US, Singapore and Canadian versions. QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop: How They Compare The biggest difference between QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop is that Online requires no installation on a computer and Desktop does.
Product-based businesses with inventory needs typically work better with QuickBooks Desktop, whereas service-based businesses or businesses that use multiple devices typically choose QuickBooks Online. Psst If you want to get straight to the meat, my friend Woody Adams at Intuit has created an amazing comparison chart for us to see all the features in QuickBooks Online vs. QuickBooks Desktop at once. Check it out. Although I have most of my clients on (seriously, all but one), I think it’s always important to revisit the conversation of the main differences of QuickBooks Online vs. For me, one of the biggest differences is that the one client I still have on QuickBooks Desktop is the one client I’m sure to visit every month.
Jan 4, 2019 - You need to know the differences between QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop, whether you're a loyal user or are just starting out. Make the best.
But hey, it forces me to put on pants and go out into the world and interact with other humans. Today, there are more units of QuickBooks Desktop used by small businesses than QuickBooks Online. However, small businesses are flocking to the online version of accounting platform. Did you know that 80% of new QuickBooks users are choosing QuickBooks Online vs. QuickBooks Desktop? You need to know the differences between QuickBooks Online vs.
Desktop—whether you’re starting to use QuickBooks for the very first time or you’re a loyal Desktop user considering the change. QuickBooks Online vs. Desktop: The Facts While I think it’s important to recognize how Intuit’s emphasis on QuickBooks Online will mean that product will get better faster, leaving QuickBooks Desktop behind, you still have to ask yourself whether or not QuickBooks Online is the right product for you now.
To do this, let’s look at the facts. Where do the products differ? Where do they excel? Let’s find out: QuickBooks Desktop Advantages If I were to generalize where I think QuickBooks Desktop still holds a major advantage, I’d say managing large amounts of inventory and job costing. But I think it’s important to list out the differing features specifically. QuickBooks Desktop still offers the following feature sets that QuickBooks Online does not.
If you can’t live without any of the below, than QuickBooks Desktop is most likely best for you. Keep in mind that some of the features below are only supported in QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise, and not QuickBooks Pro. Data Entry:. Price Levels.
Create Invoices in Batch. Billing Rate Levels. Batch Enter Transactions.
Batch Enter Timesheets. Pay Vendors Online (ACH) Job Costing:. Progress Invoicing/Billing.
Job Costing Module and Reports (Estimate vs. Stacy Kildal is owner/operator of Kildal Services LLC—an accounting and technology consulting company that specializes in all things QuickBooks. From 2012-2017, Stacy has been named one of CPA Practice Advisor’s Most Powerful Women In Accounting.
Stacy is one of the three hosts for the QB Show and has also been featured frequently on Intuit’s Accountant Blog, Community 'Ask the Expert' forums, at various Intuit Academy To Go podcasts, as well as hosting a number of Intuit Small Business Online Town Hall sessions. She is a big fan of working mobile and has been recognized by Intuit as being an expert on QuickBooks Online, having written Intuit’s original courses for the US, Singapore and Canadian versions.
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!!