Issues with inventory and exporting data to QBO from a mac QB desktop program

I noticed that my inventory items are exporting to qbo as non-inventory items. After some digging around I found that QBO will not transfer inventory from the Mac desktop version! The suggestion by intuit is to save my inventory as a qb windows file, then use a windows computer with qb for windows, and upload that way! Well I don't want to purchase a new computer and qb software just to use qbo!

Anyone have the same issue and find a workaround?

I really like the online version, but having QB track our inventory is non-negotiable! Also does QBO use the average cost of goods price? I didn't see it on when I manually changed an non inventory item to inventory.

Thanks