QuickBooks app for Mac should not be confused with QuickBooks for Mac 2014—it’s not a standalone application, and thus, requires that you already have an existing or plan to setup a new.
QuickBooks for Mac is your complete financial management system. Finally, after years of insufficient accounting offerings for the Mac, Intuit has developed QuickBooks for Mac to meet all your pressing business needs.
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The system is your complete solution for tracking and managing your expenses, invoices, and checks. QuickBooks for Mac will provide you with all information you need to properly manage your business. The system features an all new Customer, Vendor and Transaction centers meant to consolidate all crucial information into one screen. QuickBooks for Mac takes advantage of MobileMe technology allowing you to backup all your files to MobileMe. The system will integrate directly with your Mac OS X Address book so you will never lose a phone number, or contact information of any contact. You are also able to setup reminders in iCal so you can be reminded to print invoices or pay bills.
QuickBooks for Mac has been developed with the knowledge that most business users of Mac’s will need to communicate heavily with Windows users. As such, the system is capable of sending QuickBooks files to Windows users. These files can be read by any version of QuickBooks, allowing you to communicate your financial data with whomever you choose.
Accounts Payable
QuickBooks helps you keep track of expenses, so you can easily see the money you’re spending in each category. Plus, QuickBooks helps you fill out your sales tax form in minutes and make sure your sales tax balance is accurate and up-to-date.
The system will also allow you to easily create and print checks. By using a batch processing method you can print all of your checks at once, and have them tracked for ultimate control of your money.
QuickBooks will help ensure that all of your financial obligations are met on time. To ensure that you don’t incur costly late fees, QuickBooks has a reminder feature that will allow you to record bills as they come and set a reminder to pay them before they are due.
Accounts Receivable
QuickBooks for Mac will create a central storage point for all your data, containing all customer contact and transactional data. This allows you to easily track and follow up on past-due accounts and answer all customer requests more efficiently.
QuickBooks for Mac allows you to easily create invoices and track receivables. Using the data that has already been entered in QuickBooks (i.e. customer contact info & products/services) to create invoices in a snap. Invoices can be created from over 100 pre-designed templates; you can even customize invoices to show your company logo and tag line.
General Ledger
The general ledger will allow you to stay on top of your business. It will provide you with a consolidated view of who owes you money, who you owe money to, important reminders, and income/expense performance.
QuickBooks for Mac uses the transactional history established in the general ledger to provide you with over 100+ pre-designed reports. Each report is adjustable, allowing you to gain useful insight into your business. Within each report you can click on any number to see the details behind it. Any report in the system can be exported to Microsoft Excel.
Inventory
QuickBooks for Mac gives you the ability to easily track your inventory. This will allow you to avoid overbuying and backorders. The system will allow you to setup reorder points that will automatically alert you as to when you should reorder a product.
Payroll
The payroll application will allow you to easily manage your staff. The system will allow you to quickly process payroll with appropriate tax deductions. The software is capable of paying employees by direct deposit as well. You can have the system automatically populate and print 1099s for independent contractors. QuickBooks for Mac contains every tool you need to pay your employees, without switching to a Windows environment.
Purchase Orders
QuickBooks for Mac will quickly create purchase orders for your purchases. The only user intervention required is to simply select the appropriate vendor from a list of vendors and select an inventory item to order. Upon receiving the inventory, QuickBooks recognizes the products and matches it to the appropriate PO. Meaning when you enter inventory items, the correct corresponding PO is automatically reconciled.
Time Tracking
The QuickBooks for Mac Time Tracking functionality allows you to properly track your employees’ time to avoid under-billing your customers. The system will alert you when creating an invoice if there are any outstanding time or expenses for that customer. Easily bring over both item descriptions and notes to invoices, so customers can clearly see what you are billing them for.
The system allows you to track time by employee, service, and customer. This is done by using timesheets. If you are creating an invoice, QuickBooks automatically alerts you to any unbilled time and expenses.
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QuickBooks for Mac does not have a built-in payroll service like the Windows version. When you click the Payroll link you are taken to an external website for processing employee checks. Since QuickBooks doesn't provide a built-in method for manually tracking payroll, employers who want to track payroll for employees in QuickBooks must subscribe and pay a monthly fee to access the online QuickBooks Payroll for Mac service. Before enrolling in the QuickBooks payroll system, make sure each employee's name is spelled exactly how you plan on spelling it for paychecks. If the data between QuickBooks and QuickBooks payroll don't match, the program won't work correctly.
Edit Employee Information
2.Double-click the name of any employee you need to edit.
3.Change the First, Middle and Last name as necessary to ensure that your QuickBooks Payroll Services account information matches with the employees in your QuickBooks 2013 for Mac software. Click 'OK' to save changes.
Set Up Payroll
2.Select 'Payroll' and choose a service from the drop-down menu to use for your payroll services. Click 'Edit Account' and sign in or create an account.
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Select the employees you want to pay from the list of employees by checking the box next to each employee's name.
4.Enter hours worked and other payment information for each employee. In the Run Payroll section of QuickBooks Payroll for Mac there are fields for regular work, overtime, double overtime, sick pay, vacation pay and fixed bonuses.
5.Click 'Create Paychecks' and approve the salaries for each employee.
6.Select the option to print checks by yourself, hand-write checks or send employees a direct deposit of the paycheck for free. Confirm your options and select whether to email employees with a link to the online version of the pay stub.
Warning
- Information in this article applies to QuickBooks 2013 for Mac and QuickBooks Payroll for Mac. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
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