Always have the most current QuickBooks lists of customers, vendors, and employees, whether you're viewing the list on QuickBooks (on your Mac) or Contacts (on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac). Contact Sync synchronizes your contact information in QuickBooks with Apple's Contacts and your mobile devices. FAQ
When you make changes in QuickBooks, Contacts, or your mobile device, the change is synced between the programs and devices. Once Contact Sync is set up, syncing is automatic.
Note: Even though you may have used Contact Sync in a previous version of QuickBooks, be sure to turn on Contact Sync again.
To use Contact Sync, you first turn on Contact Sync and then you tell QuickBooks which contacts you want to sync.
QuickBooks creates a new group in Contacts named "QuickBooks: CompanyFileName ." All your contacts in the current company file will initially be organized in this group.
The Contact Sync icon (
) appears next to the names that are synced with Contacts.
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The first time to sync your QuickBooks lists with Contacts, QuickBooks creates duplicate Contacts cards and places them in a new group. You many want to consolidate these cards:
Now, you've consolidated your Contacts cards but the links to QuickBooks lists still work for synchronizing.
Contact Sync synchronizes the following:
Contact Sync works with
Contact Sync doesn't work with QuickBooks for Mac 2013 or 2014 running on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)