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Intuit Debuts Rebuilt Quicken Essentials for Mac
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With 200k in checking, you can probably negotiate a decent market rate on the account...
Yes, it does. I've been using the standard pre-printed wallet size checks on iBank, which are the same kind that I used with Quicken. You can only print one check at time though....
I did just that!
The support representative told me that they are over whelmed with customers requesting refunds.
I for one can understand why.
I suppose that there are a whole lot of people that can't be bothered spending 5 minutes researching a $70 purchase. Which is kind of ironic considering the whole point in buying Quicken is to try of be more fiscally responsible.
It's not like Intuit wasn't clear about the whole thing.I appreciate reading everyones alternate suggestions but Mint.com really? I mean without cash flow forecasting why not just use your bank's website?
Anyways, I've used Quicken for 10 years and switched to the Mac version when I bought my first Mac in 2005 and hated it from day one. My biggest complaint is the reporting is useless compared to the Windows version and the budget feature somehow being even worse -- at this point I use a spreadsheet for budgeting. The auto download feature also seems to mess up on any deposits.
That being said I've tried iBank and it wouldn't even import my historical data without crashing.
The biggest disappointment with QEM is the lack of direct bill pay. I get this free from my bank with the account type I have and really like how easy it is to pay bills and track my finances from the same interface. I like how someone else suggested using the bank's bill pay feature and then re-downloading transactions -- that might be a workable solution.
Ultimately it'd be worth the $70 upgrade for me if it fixed the budgeting and processed downloaded transactions better, but I think I'll wait until it goes on sale.
Anyways, I've used Quicken for 10 years and switched to the Mac version when I bought my first Mac in 2005 and hated it from day one. My biggest complaint is the reporting is useless compared to the Windows version and the budget feature somehow being even worse -- at this point I use a spreadsheet for budgeting. The auto download feature also seems to mess up on any deposits.
That being said I've tried iBank and it wouldn't even import my historical data without crashing.
The biggest disappointment with QEM is the lack of direct bill pay. I get this free from my bank with the account type I have and really like how easy it is to pay bills and track my finances from the same interface. I like how someone else suggested using the bank's bill pay feature and then re-downloading transactions -- that might be a workable solution.
Ultimately it'd be worth the $70 upgrade for me if it fixed the budgeting and processed downloaded transactions better, but I think I'll wait until it goes on sale.
What do people in the UK use?
I have the same question too. I'd love to be able to download my transactions from Abbey or Santander as it is now called. Hell, for the right app, I'd probably switch to a different bank. I tried out Mint, not realising it's useless in the UK. Bad Apple / Mint, why put it on the UK store then??
I've heard good things about Wesabe, but am not sure how well it works with the UK system.
You may be mistaken. iBank is not a UK company and the link you gave clearly states they are a US company, founded in California and now based in Vermont.
Mint.com also not available to UK users, mind you many of us over here haven't got much cash to manage these days.
I have the same question too. I'd love to be able to download my transactions from Abbey or Santander as it is now called. Hell, for the right app, I'd probably switch to a different bank. I tried out Mint, not realising it's useless in the UK. Bad Apple / Mint, why put it on the UK store then??
I've heard good things about Wesabe, but am not sure how well it works with the UK system.
You may be mistaken. iBank is not a UK company and the link you gave clearly states they are a US company, founded in California and now based in Vermont.
If you tried ibank before v3.0, try again. I had no problem. Then again, I have found that exports from Q for Mac re-imported into the same Q for Mac software had problems.
I use my iBank software exactly as you are considering. Using USAA for bill pay and (in my case) daily downloading new transactions that hit my Checking. Plus do the same for my Credit Cards and Investments. It is sooo easy and saves me massive time. I always know where I stand and reconciliations are a snap
Far too little, Far too late. They say to go with Quicken 2007 for Bill Pay, but some banks are shutting down their bill pay with Quicken 2007, so I took this as a perfect time to make a change. Switched to Moneydance and haven't looked back. Everything imported pretty well and was up and running in a half hour with 17 years of data safely moved.
So long Intuit, Good riddance!
So long Intuit, Good riddance!
Suck it up people
Dear loyal customer: Here's the New version Quicken for the Mac that you've been waiting OVER three years for! More good news - we'll gladly charge you more than we do for our highly functional, feature-complete, Windows version (Quicken Deluxe 2010 for Windows sells for MORE than twenty-five dollars less on Amazon right now). You're patience and devotion to our product is about to be greatly rewarded. We know Quicken 2007 for the Mac is a dog. It's slow and buggy and poorly designed, but hey, what else were you going to use on your Mac? We're sorry we stopped fixing bugs or enhancing Quicken 2007 YEARS ago - but we still recommend it over Quicken Essentials for Mac, on our website, if you need to:
1) Pay your bills online
2) Track investment purchases and sales
3) Print checks
4) Export to TurboTax
These are silly things anyway - who really wants to pay their bills using Quicken - right? And after you've spent the entire year entering all of your financial information into Quicken - why not do it all over again in order to use one of our other products - like TurboTax? It's your time, not ours.
Look, we've been trying to figure out this whole "Quicken on the Mac" thing for a while. We know we promised you a new Quicken for Mac years ago - but, we kinda screwed up and had to scrap that project. Then, we were completely caught off guard by the fact the Mac actually became popular. So we figured we could just release a bare minimum product - you know, check the box and buy some time to add in what we should have delivered years ago. We figure, in the meantime, some of you will actually pay for this useless product AND, we can say we've addressed the needs of the Mac market.
We own the financial software market, so you're going to just have to accept what we give you and pay top dollar for it. Sorry people that's just reality. Grin and bear it - please stop complaining and just give us your money.
Dear loyal customer: Here's the New version Quicken for the Mac that you've been waiting OVER three years for! More good news - we'll gladly charge you more than we do for our highly functional, feature-complete, Windows version (Quicken Deluxe 2010 for Windows sells for MORE than twenty-five dollars less on Amazon right now). You're patience and devotion to our product is about to be greatly rewarded. We know Quicken 2007 for the Mac is a dog. It's slow and buggy and poorly designed, but hey, what else were you going to use on your Mac? We're sorry we stopped fixing bugs or enhancing Quicken 2007 YEARS ago - but we still recommend it over Quicken Essentials for Mac, on our website, if you need to:
1) Pay your bills online
2) Track investment purchases and sales
3) Print checks
4) Export to TurboTax
These are silly things anyway - who really wants to pay their bills using Quicken - right? And after you've spent the entire year entering all of your financial information into Quicken - why not do it all over again in order to use one of our other products - like TurboTax? It's your time, not ours.
Look, we've been trying to figure out this whole "Quicken on the Mac" thing for a while. We know we promised you a new Quicken for Mac years ago - but, we kinda screwed up and had to scrap that project. Then, we were completely caught off guard by the fact the Mac actually became popular. So we figured we could just release a bare minimum product - you know, check the box and buy some time to add in what we should have delivered years ago. We figure, in the meantime, some of you will actually pay for this useless product AND, we can say we've addressed the needs of the Mac market.
We own the financial software market, so you're going to just have to accept what we give you and pay top dollar for it. Sorry people that's just reality. Grin and bear it - please stop complaining and just give us your money.
The irony is ...
One of the most ironic things is that Bill Campbell, former president and CEO of Intuit, has been on Apple's board of directors since 1998. As a longtime Apple stockholder, I have repeatedly voted that this avaricious, short-sighted cretin not remain on the board, but alas, he is unfortunately still there. It's hard to believe that Jobs hasn't previously insisted that he bring Quicken for Mac to the same level as its Windows counterpart.
One of the most ironic things is that Bill Campbell, former president and CEO of Intuit, has been on Apple's board of directors since 1998. As a longtime Apple stockholder, I have repeatedly voted that this avaricious, short-sighted cretin not remain on the board, but alas, he is unfortunately still there. It's hard to believe that Jobs hasn't previously insisted that he bring Quicken for Mac to the same level as its Windows counterpart.
I concur. I got sick of Intuit's persistent refusal to fix bugs in its Mac products, make them compatible with their Windows products, or make significant inroads in feature-completeness. Given how shabbily Intuit treats the Mac, I don't know why Intuit has a seat on Apple's board.
Can this sync with Mint data and use Mint.com data? if so that would be worth it. I'd love to have my Mint.com data in a native app but then have it synch with the mint.com cloud and the mint.com iphone app.
Gonna play Devils Advocate
I pre ordered this from Intuit and Downloaded yesterday. I migrated from Quicken Deluxe 2009 for Windows and I have to say I like it much better. The interface to me is much more sleek and makes sense to me. I have all my accounts and easy to read summary pages. Sure it doesn't have export to Turbotax though I have a feeling they will add they functionality, even if they don't its no big deal for me as I can enter it manually, which I prefer to do anyhow to check my work
Overall the program seems responsive and quicker then my 2009 Deluxe which took forever to run updates and to answer the person who had trouble with it showing ABC data file you have to open a new file and name it what you want to name it and choose the default directory.
I still haven't figured out the fonts yet, which was my biggest issue with Quicken 2007, though I haven't had time to really setup my likes and dislikes yet.
On another note, $69.99 is too pricey, $49.99 would be a better price point for this as the Windows versions have more functionality and better pricing.
I pre ordered this from Intuit and Downloaded yesterday. I migrated from Quicken Deluxe 2009 for Windows and I have to say I like it much better. The interface to me is much more sleek and makes sense to me. I have all my accounts and easy to read summary pages. Sure it doesn't have export to Turbotax though I have a feeling they will add they functionality, even if they don't its no big deal for me as I can enter it manually, which I prefer to do anyhow to check my work
Overall the program seems responsive and quicker then my 2009 Deluxe which took forever to run updates and to answer the person who had trouble with it showing ABC data file you have to open a new file and name it what you want to name it and choose the default directory.
I still haven't figured out the fonts yet, which was my biggest issue with Quicken 2007, though I haven't had time to really setup my likes and dislikes yet.
On another note, $69.99 is too pricey, $49.99 would be a better price point for this as the Windows versions have more functionality and better pricing.
I feel the same way about Microsoft, Apple needs to make their own money management program
Ok, sorry if I came over a bit harsh - I'm just a bit frustrated by trying to track my financial issues at the moment. I'll edit my earlier comment.
Still no recommendations for UK-based financial software?
I found another missing feature this morning. When you download transactions from your bank and then do a reconcile - there is no way to pull in the online balances from your bank to do the reconciliation. You have to enter the starting and ending balances manually. I can't believe they left this feature out. BTW - I got an email back from my refund request. They wanted to know my order number which I had included in my original refund request. And they were calling the product Quicken 2010 for Mac not Quicken Essentials. I tell you - this product has totally soured me on Intuit. I am a longtime Quicken user (for at least last 10 years) but I am now looking at alternatives. I gave up on Turbo-Tax 3 years ago and switched to TaxCut because Turbo could never compute my retirement income correctly on my State Taxes. So I think I'll be leaving the company entirely now. If this product is the best they can come up with after all these years of waiting, that is pretty pathetic. I'll probably switch to either iBank or MS Money running under Parallels.
Update - I just heard back from Intuit about my refund request. They say I have to wait 48 hours before I can request the refund on "Quicken 2010 for Mac". I hope they are not going to be difficult about this refund.
Update - I just heard back from Intuit about my refund request. They say I have to wait 48 hours before I can request the refund on "Quicken 2010 for Mac". I hope they are not going to be difficult about this refund.
Furthermore, the pie chart and table are inconsistent in that the 15% entertainment expense in green is not even in the pie chart.
Intuit's CEO is on the Apple board. Intuit closed down their San Bernardino, CA operation which was a primary spot for decades.
Our family kept trying to use Intuit products but continual problems and upgrade emergencies reduced us back to paper and pencil, and we couldn't be happier. They never crash or freeze. If we had a business with lots of transactions we would simply use one of the IBM business applications and be done with it. It would not run on a Mac.
I tried to contact you directly but could not do it.
How did you migrate your QD2009 data? I was trying to help my dad and its a QDF file which the included conversion tool did not seem to understand. His only export option is a QIF which the conversion tool did not play with either.
Thanks for any info.
Quicken Essentials Works Really Well
Honestly, I am very impressed by the new software. It is easy to follow and has a great look to it. I hate keeping track of my expenses, but this product actually makes it fun. The cloud charts and tags have to be my favorite features. It is really nice to be able to categorize multiple expenses and run reports based off of the tags to see how much I spent within those categories.
There are some features missing, but I don't have investments I need to keep track of, so who cares? Billpay would be a nice feature to have, but I am confident that the great people at Intuit will add it and many other awesome features in the future.
People do not understand that this is a new product built from the ground up and to make it solid and to release it in a timely manor, there had to be some sacrifices, but at least they did not sacrifice the quality of the features they did include.
Intuit, I give you two huge thumbs up on Mac Essentials!
Honestly, I am very impressed by the new software. It is easy to follow and has a great look to it. I hate keeping track of my expenses, but this product actually makes it fun. The cloud charts and tags have to be my favorite features. It is really nice to be able to categorize multiple expenses and run reports based off of the tags to see how much I spent within those categories.
There are some features missing, but I don't have investments I need to keep track of, so who cares? Billpay would be a nice feature to have, but I am confident that the great people at Intuit will add it and many other awesome features in the future.
People do not understand that this is a new product built from the ground up and to make it solid and to release it in a timely manor, there had to be some sacrifices, but at least they did not sacrifice the quality of the features they did include.
Intuit, I give you two huge thumbs up on Mac Essentials!
I went through their support system on the web, requested a refund around 9 PM yesterday, and today when I woke up they sent an e-mail back that they were going to refund me, and can take up to 7-10 days to show up back on my credit card.
Not too bad.
Three years is a rush to get something out in a timely manner...? Really? When the Windows version has had an upgrade each year?
Bullcrap on the making sacrifices to get out a stable release in a timely manner; that's what BETA testing is for. You don't release a crippled product, which I guarantee you is going to have bugs found quickly anyways, and charge a premium for the crippleware after three years because you were in a rush to get it to market. That's just absurd. This is all just part of their disdain and/or neglect for the Mac market, and their move to push you to the cloud in a few years.