System Requirements

FileMaker Pro, version 9 or higher, is required. Lion OS use requires latest version of FileMaker Pro, version 11. Note that FileMaker Pro, version 10, which will serve all features, has the following minimum requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
  • PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac
  • 256 MB of RAM

  • Windows 7 or later
  • 1 GHz or faster
  • 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  • 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution video adapter and display

Client Practice Manager uses several features of FileMaker Pro that are only available with certain versions of FileMaker Pro:

Calendar Dropdowns
Email Merge
PDF Maker
Conditional Formatting
Support for Intel-based Macs

A chart displaying with what versions correspond to these and other features of FileMaker Pro can be seen
here.