No offline mode, glitchy.

The biggest overall gripe I have with this app is that there isn’t an offline mode available. This is basically a glorified web portal. It runs reasonably well when connected to a fast network, but quickly becomes almost unusably slow when connected to anything slower. Company financial data is one of those information categories that often needs to be referenced in a hurry and in unplanned moments, so the lack of offline mode is infuriating sometimes. So why not just use QB desktop? Because I have a Mac. And QuickBooks has systematically handicapped the QB for Mac desktop software in an effort to shuttle people to this monthly subscription platform.

I came from the QB for Mac platform and used that without any hiccups for years and years. Intuit canned the ability to accept payments using their payment system and left switching to this online platform as the only solution for accepting online payments on a Mac. My business relies on this, so I was forced to switch. Intuit really has this market cornered. They know the ubiquity of QuickBooks is a massive selling point, so switching away from QuickBooks when my accountant and others I work with all use it, is essentially impossible, so I’m stuck here with this garbage software.

bwehman about QuickBooks, v2.4.7