Buzz Out Loud Lounge forum: Best Quicken Replacement

can't you write it off anyway? i hope you r all still using windows 95! lol

-karl

because people don't like there programs they PAID for to be considered so old that they are not working...

but the only reason they are not working is because some %#&$# in the corperate office decided he wanted a new gold toilet and made them release a new copy with few to no improvements.

There should be little to no new stuff other then connecting to a bank's server (which was around in 01) that should be new..

Financial software is very important -- and not something users appreciate having messed up. Intuit was there early
with a good product. I started using Quicken in 1988 in DOS. I am
about to give up. I've been through about 5 forced upgrades.
Each upgrade wastes my time with a learning curve and file management
and provides no functionality I care about. I was paying bills online
in 1988, and I still am.

The upgrade from .QIF to .QFX made some sense, even if it was annoying.

I've also been using Linux for three years to run my entire life.

Quicken is the ONLY program I really need that doesn't run in Linux
natively. Till now I have used CrossOver office to make Quicken run in Linux. It worked for Quicken 2005, but now that I have been forced to move to Q2008 it does not work.

Even if Intuit does not want to support Linux themselves, they should at least feed the Wine community with advance notice of their strategy so that CrossOver works the day a new Quicken is released.

About 100 reasons here is a few:
1. Personal use is not a "write off" (you've got to get out more)
2. All software should sunset I guess, MORE WRITE OFFS!
3. Well lets add hardware too -- how about my car and house??
4. It is strong arming extortion.
5. The upgrades are crap -- not even bells and whistles any more. What do you get? Nothing-- that is extortion.

enough?

around 2003 when they did the first sunset with version 2001. At that time I was running 2001 in crossover office on SuSE 9.0 if I remember correctly. Even before the sunset I remember when I upgraded to 2001 having to spend 1-2 hours figuring out how to remove all of the ad crap from the display and it never all went away, it was that day that I decided never to upgrade quicken again. Sometime around 2004-2005 I found moneydance because I missed the online banking stuff. I can't say enough about MoneyDance. The developer is a great guy he has a usenet group that he watches and answers questions. I've never paid for an upgrade in four years and yet the product gets better and better. Even the updates are done from within the program, you just check for updates, download restart it, done. Can't say enough. Anyone who doesn't look at this product is missing out. Oh and the stock quotes work great!

tim

It does import, however because of the QIF file format it isn't always just a click and import. I've heard of people having no problem and then others that have a heck of a time. If you goto moneydance.com you can dowload a limited version of the program. All of the features are there it will just allow only 100 transactions to be "entered" This allows you to try the import out and see what you think.

tim

The import isn't limited. You get 100 manually entered transactions. You can do what you want.

tim

the forced "upgrade" to 2008 has overwhelmed me with bugs, and their on-line chat help is astoundingly inept. I have 20 years of data, the last seven years of it current and used all the time. how's the data transfer process over to moneydance? i feel a nightmare coming on....

I'll try it. Good idea.

Quicken phone support just told me, "Yes it's correct that none of your saved reports from Q 2005 will work with Q 2008; you have to re-create them all one by one, line by line". Stunning!! Stunning! They were SO good once! It's like the fall of Dell all over again.

Tastes like Quicken!

What good is Mint now that it has been acquired by Intuit/Quicken?

Good Thing Quicken has a great return Policy. Bought 2011, and now they force you to register in order to use online banking. Registered with Dummy informtion. Taking it back to Costco. They won't get money out of me.