
QuickBooks: The 800-pound gorilla of the small business accounting world is still Intuit’s QuickBooks. However, for $15 per month, we weren’t interested in using an emulated Windows app. The company’s engineers figured out a way to embed the Windows version of AccountEdge in a custom emulation wrapper, and they made that the official migration path for orphaned Mac users. Two choices immediately presented themselves:ĪccountEdge Pro: You have to give MYOB credit for trying. Such transitions are most easily done at the start of a year, so in late 2020, we started evaluating the alternatives. Tonya didn’t mind keeping one of her Macs on 10.14 Mojave so she could keep running AccountEdge temporarily, but we clearly had to switch accounting systems. MYOB tried and failed to update AccountEdge to be a 64-bit app, and eventually stopped selling it. All of your data will automatically sync and update, just like on a browser.Unfortunately, AccountEdge was built on a 30-year-old, 32-bit code base that wasn’t compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina.



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