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

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

I love this software.

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.

Looks like the same product I have been using for 20+ years, but the price has gone up. Instead of using a version for three or four years, I now have to replace it every year in order to download financial data. Looking for a substitute.

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

I have been using Quicken to manage my finances for as long as I can remember. Today, I am not sure I can trust this product. It is as quirky as can be, and I dont feel my information is safe with a company that doesnt seem to use quality assurance engineers to validate their product. Trying to do something as basic as resetting an account number after a credit card breach, is simply impossible. The application keeps looping through useless steps, never achieving the desired outcome. The application is increasingly slow, maybe because I have over 30 years of records. It crashes more than it should, and goes through weird convulsions where the different windows change size, disappear, reappear, God knows why. Now and then, it will get stuck in a loop that requires a forced kill of the app to get out of. This happens often when doing an online update of all accounts, where you download entries from your bank accounts. Sometimes, something as simple as adding a new credit card account is also impossible. The app will simply not recognize the new account online. Im sure there are tricks to get through all these hurdles, but why does it have to be that way? Quicken has been out for ages. Isnt time we get a stable product? Quicken has a feature to track investments and update transactions by downloading them from your online investments accounts. Once again, this feature falls short. It is quirky at best, and definitely not intuitive.

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.

Activation. Bought to use for personal use

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 use Quicken to track my finances (banking, MM, and CDs) and investments (brokerage and retirement accounts). I want all my data stored on my PC and back-ups, I do not store anything in the cloud, nor use online portfolio trackers. I hand enter my transactions, only downloading quotes. Quicken Deluxe adequately supports my usage habits. I do NOT like the subcription-basis of Quicken and would prefer a return to the stand-alone purchase and upgrade very two to three years for improved versions. I am actively seeking a non-subscription substitute for Quicken.