Quicken Starter Personal Finance – Start taking control of your money – 1-Year Subscription (Windows/Mac)

I have been using Quicken (Intuit), for years. I purchased 2020 back in Nov. I was using Home and Business - but since their subscription ran out, Which I never used - now I cant use it at all. 25% of the screen is a renewl box that wont close unless you pay them for the use. I called and spoke with a no english person - said he could take care of it very quickly and I could start using Quicken - at 103.00 per year. I explained to the rep that I have macular degeneration in both eyes, and the ir box was taking up my space/ I have a 36 in. monitor and still have to blow everything up by 250% rto be able to add. This should be against the law to force people to use your products, and if you dont pay their fine. Maybe I should hire a lawyer for discrimanation and disabled blind person. Guess scam artist are all over - but big companies like Quicken get by with it.

I decline to keep paying just to use software I bought even though Quicken is a great product. Im a Quicken user all the way back from 1995. It used to be you would pay a one-time charge for Quicken and thats it and buy a new version every few years when absolutely needed for new releases of Windows. Now it is subscription software. You will need to pay for a subscription after the initial subscription that comes with Quicken expires. Otherwise, you will get ads that block out part of your screen and makes using it an irritating experience. You also get frequent emails to pay up. Instead of paying for recurring subscriptions, I suggest trying out for free an alternative called Moneydance (or others like it). It is not subscription based. Pay for it once and thats it. No more annoying nags and ads.

I ran a business with the original Quicken before the cloud. I didnt like the idea that the files were not on my computer with the cloud.So I made other arrangements. in 2022 I figured that I would try it again and loaded a few accounts. Then I tried to access Quicken from a different computer. I saw a screen that blocked me unless I agreed to renew for another year when I still had 9 months of paid service coming SCAM? maybe. But, when I want to access my accounts, I want access, not a strong arm attempt to rope me in.

Could be easier to use!

I have used Quicken for my home business for years, but I had to get a new copy. It wasnt this piece of scam. Where you used to just own your software, and the package had everything. Now, they have broken it into multiple versions, and charge an outrageous FORCED subscription cost for whatever you get. If I could return this, I would. Buyer beware.

After our prior budgeting software became subscription based, we figured if we had to subscribe to something we might as well go with the most well established option. Couldnt go wrong with Quicken, right? Could not have been more wrong. Fortunately we were able to cancel during the first 30 days for a refund. The PC version of the software is outrageously buggy. Theres a handful I can easily reproduce using the build I downloaded from their website in Jan 2020: * Randomly after syncng to the cloud and exiting the program, when I come back in, certain budget categories have had various months budgets overwritten by the latest months budget value (ex: starting a fresh budget in Jan 2021, I edited the Dec 2020 budget values to show the amount carried forward from own old budget, and then would randomly find other months in 2020 overwritten by other values). * If I filter the transaction view and theres a small number of transactions, one of the displayed totals is wrong. It leaves out the last transaction. Thus I cant trust the totals - a pretty serious issue for budgeting software. * Also in a filtered view, if I edit a reconciled transaction and then click no to the warning about editing it (to cancel the edit), the entire transaction becomes invisible (looks like it was deleted, but if you reset the view it comes back). * Also in filtered view, occasionally upon editing, the transaction overwrites either the first transaction in the view or the transaction immediately before or after the edited one, replacing it with a copy of itself. * And, also in filtered view, the last transaction in the view sometimes does not show the correct flag for manual entry, cleared, reconciled, etc... We also tried the Mac version, and while we didnt try it long enough to know whether or not it had the same bugs, we quickly discovered it wasnt usable for us either as there was no way to roll one months budget surplus or shortfall in a given category into the next month automatically (what Quicken calls rollover - a PC only feature). Other crazy things... If you have both the PC and Mac version, you cant delete an online copy of a budget created by the other platform. You also cant delete the online copy of the currently open budget. There doesnt appear to be a way on the website to delete online budgets. And online you dont seem to be able to edit account sync configuration for your bank or credit accounts. If you review their release notes for the software, they often have multiple releases per month which include bug fixes, and some of the fixed bugs are even more outrageous than the ones we experienced (one recent one involved syncng causing categories to get deleted and require you restore from backup). This doesnt give me a lot of confidence there arent many other bugs waiting to cause issues. Not sure how Quicken, which has been around for so long, can be such incredibly bad software, but it is. So very disappointed. Maybe something that happened when Intuit sold it back in 2016. Either way, avoid it like the plague. We went with You Need a Budget, which is a considerably better experience, though they are a bit rigid with their methodology (things like you cant roll forward a negative amount in a budget category... something we used to do all the time to track IOUs where we were owed money).

The product was what it was shown to be and it is being used for a non-profit. Matter of fact we are going to get another in the near future if I can still get it from the same seller.

I switched to a new computer, and had to install several programs. I couldnt find the Quicken disk, so bought a CD of it. Starter edition. Right. Works differently from the old 2015 program, is NOT as user-friendly, doesnt have some of the features of the original, and is extremely annoying. Trying to navigate to what you want, or arranging your world the way YOU want it is almost impossible. PLUS.....theyre charging me $30 per year for the privilege of using their software. AARRGH! Im searching for another bookkeeping program!!!!

In the info for this product Quicken says: Youll always have full access to, and full ownership of your data. That is a lie, You could work around the large banner ads that you need to renew that take over the screen, but After your membership expires you will get a pop-up message that you cant complete that action without renewing for every single action you perform. You need to click through the message each time and in entering one split transaction you have to click through it ten times or more. That is hardly full access to your data, it is unusable.

Bought the software, did not like it so returned it. Have proof of delivery and requested refund 3 times but still waiting.