Don’t get me wrong, I’m a long time Quicken user, but I’m a Mac user and its fairly frustrating dealing with the differences between their Mac and Windows versions. Unfortunately, my accountant is a Windows user, so every time I have to share my books with her, I have to export a Windows file. She in turn, exports back to me. Unfortunately its not a 1:1 mapping and its a logistics hassle to have to share files.
So one alternative is to try QuickBooks Online where I can just store my data in the cloud and give my accountant access to my account. Makes a lot of sense except that Intuit sees my attempt at an end-around and slams the door on me. Curiously, their Quicken Online offering does not suffer from this same problem.
Were it not for my near seamless experiences with Apple’s products these days, I would probably take these things as par. But this isn’t par in this day and time. I hope they figure this out and remedy the problem real soon.
There is little chance of any of the Quickbooks Online code working on a non-Microsoft OS. It’s just a bunch of huge ActiveX controls. Microsoft gives you a way to basically deploy a client application in a browser…that doesn’t work anywhere else. Not 5 minutes ago I accidentally tried to go to my (non-Quickbooks) payroll site in Firefox- no dice. So, I am stuck with Windows. Yea.
QB O/L has a quite a few complex UI features, I think it would be a real challenge to implement with JavaScript. However, that indicates to me a market opportunity! Let me know if you want to give it a go….
Its just weird that Quicken Online does work cross-browser. And to be honest, I think that most every application can be designed with Javascript and AJAX. If the UI features are complex, they need to be simplified.
This is a market opportunity, but one that Intuit should be able to fill once they get focused. Or someone else like mint.com will do it as well.
Of course, in talking about Quicken Online, I can’t help but point that they do not offer bill pay integrated in. So basically, all I can do is see my transactions roll through and get bill reminders. That’s actually not that useful to me. Give me synchronized real-time accounts, transfers, and bill pay and you probably will get my subscription money. Otherwise, I’ll wait and do things the hard way.
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