Quicken Deluxe NEW Subscriber Personal Finance – Manage your money with your First Year Subscription to Quicken (Windows/Mac)

First, if you are used to double entry bookkeeping you lose all the advantages of it. You have to be an accountant to appreciate what that means. Single entry is prone to mistakes. But you will find many faults in Quicken, many of which have been identified--something you will find if you go down the rabbit hole when looking for an answer to a vexing issue. Just one example; How you list an account in the Account list is clearly important. But say you want to move the intent of an account from retirement to investments. Turns out if you have a Mac there is a way to do this. Windows users? Out of luck. And there are many such differences and anomalies in the app. What is even more maddening when you look at the dates of questions users have pointed out, is that Quicken (Intuit actually) has known about these deficiencies for multiple years and failed to fix them. Ive noticed as an accountant that the accounting profession lost first place as definers of accounting principles and practices to programmers and computer nerds. These well-meaning but inept folks have decided to write programs according to their own mysterious cyber-based accounting principles.

read Felix Buzzard review. Its exactly correct. My Im a user of more than 30 years. The program retains the same clunky interface it started with back then. However, Ive not been able to find an alternative. Let me know if there is an alternative that can handle multiple accounts, downloads from financial institutions, reconciliations, and investments. Its become unbearably slow. Many reports of slowness have been logged on the companies web site. Before you but, I suggest you log into the discussion group, search for slow. The results suggest there has been a pervasive and persistent degradation of performance. Quicken seems to take no responsibility for the poor programing, and continues to make the problems worse.

I believe they must have fired all of their full time engineers and hired college interns to implement the subscription model and cash cow this product while claiming they are adding new features. Who charges an annual fee for software that crashes when it wants to tell you that there is an update, installs updates so frequently you have to add it to your workflow, then reserves the right to trash any or all of your data on startup? If you use it, keep backups every day because you WILL need them. Ive lost all of my bill pay contacts which I couldnt recover so switched to my banks free bill pay service. I recently started up and it asked me if I wanted to create a budget. I reverted to a backup to recover budgets Ive been keeping for years and spent many hours realigning the data. Im currently in a state where one step update doesnt remember passwords and I have to push data to quicken from my individual bank accounts. I only use this software for its budgeting because mint is still a little lacking in that area.

This is only for NEW USERS , USERS THAT HAVE NEVER PUT QUICKEN ON THEIR COMPUTER .

Im math-handicapped, and we keep everything finance in Quicken. Data entry is easy, fields are clear and well-arranged, easy to use. Search feature is very useful looking for past entries. You can make charts and graphs and calculate investment figures. its the only program Ill ever use.

I’ve been using Quicken for many years and I just love it.

This version is just a poor excuse to changing to yearly subscription fee with no significant improvement to the former 2016 edition under Intuit.

With the 2022 version of Quicken and beyond, they now REQUIRE a membership. If you do not renew your membership, the main page has two large banners letting you know your membership has expired. This also hides tabs that you should be able to see. Quicken will also pop up messages when you try to do things, letting you know your membership has expired. I have used Quicken for 10+ years. The <2022 versions did NOT do this.

I love this software.

I have been using this product for over 15 years. I love it