Power Manager

Power Manager can be used to remotely shut down a Mac. You can do this to a schedule on or on-demand through a secure remote connection.

Applications that traditionally block log out are not a problem for Power Manager. Power Manager works through a series of steps to safely shut down a Mac; these steps are:

1. Running applications are sent a friendly quit request.
2. Running applications are given time to quit.
3. If an application has not quit in time, the application is force quit.
4. With all the applications quit, the user is logged out.
5. Once all the users are logged out, Power Manager then asks macOS to shut down.

I am an engineer working on Power Manager, so feel free to ask technical questions or get in touch via the company's support e-mail address.