In QuickBooks for Mac, open the company file that you would like to convert to a Windows file. Choose whichever is most relevant File > Save File for Accountant; File > Export > To QuickBooks for Windows. Follow the on screen instructions. QuickBooks will then create a.qbb file. You should make a backup of your Quicken data prior to any conversion or perform the conversion on a copy of your Quicken data. QuickBooks can only convert Quicken for Windows files. If you are a Quicken for Mac user, you will need to convert to a Quicken for Windows file before converting to QuickBooks.
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If your business is switching from the personal financial management program Quicken to the more business-oriented program QuickBooks, moving your data between the two programs normally involves using an intermediate file format called Quicken Transfer Format, or QFX. However, Quicken for Mac cannot import this format; it can import the Quicken Online Bank Statement Format, or QBO. To get around this issue, use the 30-day free trial period of a commercial software that can convert the two file formats.
1.Download the free trial version of QIF to OFX Converter (link in Resources).
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Double-click the QIF to OFX Converter installer to install the plugin on your Windows version of Quicken.
3.Start Quicken on your PC. If you have multiple financial data sets, go to 'File,' then 'Open' to select the data set you need. Make sure that the data you've got is the data you want to export. For a direct transfer of your data from Quicken to QuickBooks, regardless of platform, export everything.
4.Select 'File | Export | File Export | QuickBooks Object (.QBO).' This makes a copy of your Quicken data. Save this file to a thumb drive or external hard drive, or to a shared network drive.
6.Launch QuickBooks for Mac, select 'File,' click 'Import,' and then click 'From Web Connect.' Navigate to the QBO file, and then click 'Open.'
7.Enter the appropriate account information when prompted. Note that QuickBooks is a much more comprehensive program than Quicken, and may ask you for information that does not exist in your Quicken data.
Warning
- Intuit changes their file formats regularly, and the professional and accountant's versions of QuickBooks 2013 have more features. If you have Quicken 2008 or older, and need to migrate the data, most accountants will do it for a very modest fee.
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Ken Burnside has been writing freelance since 1990, contributing to publications as diverse as 'Pyramid' and 'Training & Simulations Journal.' A Microsoft MVP in Excel, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Alaska. He won the Origins Award for Attack Vector: Tactical, a board game about space combat.
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