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Quicken to Double Mac Engineering Team to Finally Improve OS X Version
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You mean like not having auto-fill in the description field so you have to type the same thing over and over, or trying to tab to the next field and end up taking to the next transaction? Unfortunately I could keep going. Seems like seriously slow development and few and far updates with little to no added or updated features. Lack of iCloud integration for syncing between devices is silly at this point. They want you to pay to use their proprietary solution instead of just using iCloud.
Not related to this in any way. This is only for Quicken - the spin-off of a minor product in Intuit's product line. I dare you to find Quicken in the company's financial reports. It turns out it's a footnote - "consumer ecosystem." It's a tiny piece of the company's business. Small Business (Quickbooks) and Consumer Tax (TurboTax) dominate the company's revenues.
The solution for Quickbooks for Mac is Quickbooks Online. Trust me on this, it's the right way to go. The modern business is more likely than ever to be working in a mixed Windows/Mac environment - the cloud overcomes that issue (it did for my business).
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Nope. Just Quicken. As I noted in another reply, Quicken is a small, small part of Intuit's business. TurboTax is huge. Mint is cloud-based, which is consistent with the company's approach to Quickbooks (Quickbooks Online). Cloud is the right solution in a mixed Windows/Mac world.
The Intuit and, by extension, Quicken brands have become toxic for me. It'll be hard to change that, even under new ownership.
Not if it's aggregating all of my finances! Noooo thank you. I'll keep my data on my own machine, thank you...
...so we can do the work we need to do to bring Mac closer to the feature set of Windows over the next quarters and years.
LOL! How many times have we heard this before Intuit? Even with this new commitment, they've stopped short of bringing actual parity with their Windows product. Intuit's position has been nothing less than insulting to Mac users for many years now. I'm glad Apple finally gave the useless Bill Campbell the boot from their board of directors.
Anyone with half a brain on the Mac side has moved on. I've been much happier with iBank / Banktivity for years now. I wouldn't switch back to Quicken under any circumstance at this point.
Looking into the future is pretty easy for me. Tomorrow, my account balance will be zero. Next month: zero. Ninety days from now: still zero.
We finally opened a separate checking account just for bills. I know how much we need every month, and I just dump that in the account and kindof forget about it (though I do actually keep track of the specifics). Now, when I look at my regular checking, I don't have to worry about whether I'm taking away from money needed for bills. For longer term expenses, we use a savings account the same way.
You're right about the long term tracking. I wouldn't have thought that would have been particular useful other than for historical interest, but it seems you've found a good reason.
Ah, someone who actually knows what this company does. A CPA, perhaps?
My only real disagreement regards the comments re Mint and the cloud. The numbers on Intuit's financials regarding Quickbooks Online adoption are a strong indication that cloud is an acceptable answer for very large numbers of customers. It's definitely better to build one code base than two, and speaking as someone who tried to make Quickbooks work in a multi-user, multi-site, mixed-OS environment... the cloud was the right solution for us.
In the case of personal financial software, platform-specific solutions are probably still viable products, but still, there's a significant number of people who want mobile apps that sync with the desktop, and that syncing these days is more likely to be cloud-based than hardwired. iOS > Mac, Android > Mac, iOS > Windows, Android > Windows...
I also wonder whether Quicken, once separated from Intuit's clout, will lose the cooperation of banking institutions when it comes time to offer banking customers transaction transfer solutions. Will they ever again be able to implement a "standard" like QIF or QFX?
Certainly, there are huge trust issues involved in using the cloud for anything. But considering how deeply embedded cloud-based solutions are for all sorts of financial transactions... Unless you wait for your monthly paper statements and pay only with paper checks, isn't it "in for a penny, in for a pound?"
Yes, no inter action with accountants kills Quibooks for Mac for my wife's business.
My wife has to run hers on Parallels..... this is the ONLY reason Windows is on her Mac.
Why? Because QuickBooks for Mac can not create an accountant copy of all things.
Intuit believes Mac users aren't supposed to be able to use CPA's I guess.
Thank you. I was expecting this joke to appear quickly. I wouldn't be too surprised if the Mac development team was very small (or perhaps temporary at times).
I'd normally concur with that sentiment, but not for this clown show. Intuit deserves zero credit here.
Heh…thought you, given your description, might appreciate this: one of my clients uses the Maps|Directions feature of QBPro/Premier 2015 quite extensively. (A Maps|Directions link appears when viewing a Customer profile, which pops a IEview portal to a Intuit/Google Maps page.) They use it to help with job scheduling and then print directions/maps for their technicians' daily "job packets". It stopped working about a month ago; took them a about week and half to call me to check out why. 3hrs on the phone with Support, couldn't get it escalated without a screen sharing session…of course, I wasn't onsite. Thankfully the IE portal error message was specific enough to point me to the actual webapp service hostname, so I could actually reproduce it from home in Safari on my Mac. It was obviously (to me, an old Ops Jockey) an application server load/inbound load-balancer problem. Scheduled an onsite, IMPLORING support tech as to how important it is not to send me onsite and waste me and our customer's time/money; she fails to call me that day. Eventually I took to Twitter, the @QBCares team. The mapping service app servers were pretty clearly not responding to all HTTP requests, so that was easy to prove. And it was seemingly time-dependent (worst early in the morning Eastern Time). You'd think that would have gotten fixed, quick, right?? Nope. Another week fighting it. Finally QB Support posted http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/articles/SLN96922 last week, never even bothered to update me. "Use another map provider service." It has been down over a month and it's pretty obvious Intuit doesn't do baseline performance/up-time monitoring of their own web application servers. Oh Intuit…
Actually it was from two to four.....
They lost me years ago with no Intel based product.
I went to Moneydance. Cross platforms and it just works.
Quicken/Intuit who???
Their logic for changing the name was really convoluted.
Maybe some simple stuff that should be there is patented and the don't want to pay a fee.
Like:
Hitting "Return" goes to the next entry field?
Fixing weird check sequences. Even when selected after an entry
the check numbers jump anyplace.
But, for now it puts Quicken for Mac in the dust.
But this is not about Intuit. It's about a *NEW company taking it over and what they are going to do with it.
When I was looking at Quickbooks recently, it looked to me like their pricing is pushing everyone to the online version. Wouldn't that solve the Mac version problem?
I tried Quickbooks for the mac, and it sucked so bad. It screwed up item numbers, truncated item descriptions, it made a mess of the whole thing, and when I went back to the windows version, it was just crazy how much crap I found that the mac version screwed up.
If it wasn't for it being so easy to use, I would have dumped it in a New York minute.
I was so unimpressed, and traumatized by their 'tech support'. One 'engineer' told me to go back to the mac version. *GRRRRR*
If it wasn't for it being so easy to use, I would have dumped it in a New York minute.
I was so unimpressed, and traumatized by their 'tech support'. One 'engineer' told me to go back to the mac version. *GRRRRR*
So did Quicken finally figure out that all those folks in the coffee shop using Macs and barely a PC in sight was actually some indication of real world use of the two operating systems? Did they finally figure out that yes huge numbers of PCs are sold each year but many of them are sold to enterprise systems for dedicated usage and a personal financial program was never going to get installed on them?
Nah. They usually don't think that far ahead.
[doublepost=1457406431][/doublepost]Someone said they added one programmer. I'm thinking that they actually added a half of a person. The original guy was only part time, and probably worked from home...
I finally gave up on Quicken and switched to iBank when bill pay stopped working temporarily. As a few posters have said, it gets the job done, but it's still not as functional as Quicken 2007. However, at this point, transferring my data (I have more than 20 years of financial records and multiple accounts in iBank/Banktivity) would be so painful that the new version of Quicken would have to be able to cook breakfast for me to switch back. I also wonder how big the market for personal financial software is these days now that bank websites offer much of the same functionality.
I believe you can't manage multiple accounts with the online version. You would have to buy a license for each business you have and that is not very economical for many people.
Same. Moved to iBank last year and never going back to Quicken - Intuit ran it into the ground.