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

I have used Quicken as a purchased product for about 20 years. Switching from a PC to a Mac I had to subscribe to new Quicken. It was all set up and working, then when I went to open it the next day it did nothing. Same thing the next day, and the next day. I called tech support, first person hung up on me after putting me on hold to find out what to do. Second person had me unistall, reinstall, then declared the problem was my brand new Mac. When I explained all other aspects and programs on the Mac worked, he insisted I call Apple. He refused my request for a higher level of tech support. I inquired how to, and he agreed, to cancel my subscription.

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).

A formerly good product has been ruined. Inserts incorrect prices in bond price histories and you can no longer get a report of your bonds transactions. Despicable!!!

this was geared to om-line banking., not something im going to use. The 2006 version was easier to use.

Been using different versions of Quicken since 2006 but I dont regularly upgrade because I manually enter in all my data and dont need all the new features. I dont know why I upgraded last year, but now that it has expired, a pop-up message constantly returns to the front screen and makes it nearly impossible to use anymore. If you dont plan to pay an annual subscription, it it no longer worth it. UPDATE: After much searching, I have been able to deactivate the notifications so I dont have to click multiple pop-ups to do anything anymore. You still lose a good amount work area to Membership Expired notifications but itll work until I find something better.

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 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.

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.

Its so easy to keep track of your Income & Spending

How is a program thats been around this long so bad? Buggy, inconsistent, complicated. Why do I have to type in 3 passwords every time I sync a bank account? Why are there ALWAYS missing transactions so I have to go over everything with a fine tooth comb to fix all the errors. Right now it just wont sync 4 months of my credit card data in the middle of the year for some reason that I just noticed, and when I try importing a QIF or QFX it just flashes Importing but its still not there. Overly complicated. Hate it.