Mac Quicken Set for 2010 Release
Via the Quicken Blog, Intuit has announced a February release for the oft-delayed Mac financial software.
Intuit spokesperson Scott Gulbransen sought to “clear the air” regarding the rumored demise of Quicken for Mac. In recent days, Intuit had removed information about the formerly named Quicken Financial Life for Mac from its web site. This action, shortly after Microsoft’s cancellation of Money, may have led some to believe Intuit was giving up on a client-based application for the Mac in lieu of its online service. According to Gulbransen, the truth is much simpler: Intuit screwed up.
Feedback from Mac customers led us to rethink our approach to developing Quicken for Mac. We went back to the drawing board and are making changes to everything from what the program does to how it looks.
After being shown at Macworld Expos two years running, QFLM was finally released as a beta earlier this year. Reception was cold. As Gulbransen notes, “We learned the product was not doing what we – nor customers – wanted it to do.” Accordingly, development was reset, with changes including a new register, better reconciliation model, and a “robust” migration function for current Quicken users, including Quicken for Windows. They also dumped that idiotic name.
Intuit will be taking pre-orders for Quicken for Mac starting in October. Considering the troubled development history of the product, waiting until release would seem like a good idea. After all, what’s another seven months after three years?
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Really kinda sad that they don’t have an Intel based solution after all this time.
I’ve got ten years of financial history in Quicken and use it almost daily. It’s the last remaining one I still use that only operates under Rosetta.
Why wait? Use Mint.com, it has changed how I manage my finances in so many ways that I have not looked back at Quicken in over 18 months…
Mint is great for basic finances, just as Quicken Online is. But really, do you want all your financial data sitting on a cluster of servers you have no control over? Not me.
I agree. Mint.com is AWESOME! I used to use Quicken, then switched over to iBank, and finally landed in Mint simply because it *just works*! All the other software would try to get me to jump through hoops to perform simple tasks that Mint just did automatically. iBank went so far as to try and blame the banks as why their software couldn’t do certain tasks.
I understand some peoples hesitation to use a server based financial system, but I’ve been using it for over 2 years now with no problems. I just hope now that Quicken has bought them, that they don’t kill it just to push people over to their *new* version.
Can it be used by Canadians? I looked at mint.com and it appears to be American based only.
I like Mint also, but quits using it as it can’t pull in citizens bank info and that was my major bank. Hopefully now that Quicken owns it that will change. Citizens trusts Quicken but not Mint, when actually Mint is a far superior program
mint.com is OK, but it has some problems. First of all, you can’t enter any data or pay any bills. You can only view information (unless they’ve changed in the last month). Also if you have two credit cards with the same company, you can’t enter them both.
I’ve been playing on and off with Quicken Online and I like the fact that you can enter transactions, but as far as I know, you still can’t pay bills there. I’m also using Quicken Mac 2007. The import of transactions (syncing with bank) is clunky. It will be nice if this software streamlined the process of syncing data with financial institutions. I also think the reconciliation function of Quicken 2007 is clunky.
I look forward to the new version, but I hope there’s some option to preview before purchase. I’m looking for resolution of specific problems and if they don’t fix those, I have no need for a new version.
mint.com doubled some of my accounts and i can’t figure out how to get rid of this. The help is no help.
Mint.com has no provisions for manually managing accounts that might not have online access it supports. More than 50% of my invenstments I can not show on mint.com for this very reason. On top of that, they still have problems reliably connecting to the two largest military service banks.
Quicken has awful customer service – I have sent them messages asking them whats going on with this product – its really a shame I need to look elsewhere for an explanation of the demise of this MAC product. I am hopeful they will be ready in October – I have been waiting for this product for 1.5 years. I have used Quicken on Windows for years and can’t wait to exit Windows. Quicken is the holdup. Thank-you for your helpful information!!!
Like I tell folks, the only thing worse than Quicken for Mac is Intuit’s customer service. I thought the program was the worst part of the experience….That was until I tried to get some help with the program itself. SAD!
Do any of the Mac user’s realize that the new version takes away vital functions that were in 2007 e.g. bill pay, investment tacker etc. It if obvious that they don’t want to support the Mac. I am looking else where.
I used MS Money on Windows. I only switched to Quicken so I could sell my Windows machine. Hard decision. Wish there was a better solution. I don’t like Quicken, but I’m reluctant to trust my finances with some of the open source products on the market and I don’t know what else is out there.
I gave up on Quicken at Macworld Expo this year, switched to iBank, and imported nearly ten years of data without much trouble. Quicken’s “Smart Payees,” the automatic assignment of characteristics to transactions on download, didn’t transfer payee names, but that was a small thing. I’ve been happy with iBank, and I look forward to iBank Mobile for the iPhone, which will sync with the desktop, unlike Quicken’s mobile app.
The persistent refusal of Intuit to upgrade Mac Quicken to the same specs as Windows Quicken even though Intuit’s CEO is on Apple’s board, and their lackluster response (if any) to reported bugs, pissed me off so much I switched to MoneyWell.
I don’t like having to depend on any proprietary software. OTOH, how do we know that any of the alternative apps will be supported (even reluctantly and badly!) for the next 10+ years? All the alternatives I’ve tried have left me singularly unimpressed. They are either too non-financial-like (MoneyWell), too simplistic (no split transactions!) or too small a market share to be trusted to be around for very long.
Apparently, what would seem to be a basic function, keeping up with one’s financial status and forecasting same, is not as common a task as many of us thought. The alternatives out there run from not much more than a printing calculator to only slightly modified GAO programs! ;-) Much as I dislike Quicken, it looks like I may be stuck with it.
What is Intuit’s problem…I used a Mac version of Quicken in the early to mid 90′s that worked great. It was clean and easy to use. The only thing Microsoft Money did better was more advanced trading like options, which is why I switched to that. Then Microsoft got greedy and made it so Money expires such that you can’t get stock price updates anymore unless you upgrade to the latest version. That along with horrible reviews for the forced upgrade version killed my interest in that product. Now we’re left with nothing. It’s so sad, considering these products worked just fine ten years ago when computers were literally a hundred times slower.
It’s truly amazing that the open source community hasn’t made a good Quicken alternative yet.
Just changed to an iMac and I’m disappointed with Quicken in that I can”t use the same commands I did on my pc. It’s bad enough to adjust to Word and Excel and learn new command. Once the new commands are learned it is great. Guess you can’t teach and old dog new tricks.
It feels like I have been using Quicken forever, well, I remember the upgrade to Quicken ’97, At graduate school, I really liked using the Macs but I was afraid to switch to a Mac because of Quicken. About 2 years ago, I switched to a Mac desktop, and happily bought Quicken for Mac expecting at least some parity- it felt worse than going back to Quicken ’97.
I can’t remember all the specifics, but I have been keeping my old laptop alive and only use it for Quicken. It is not at all convenient, but it is the only option that I have figured out so far. I did try Quicken online, but didn’t find that to be very good either. I am totally hoping that the new one will be an improvement.
Try “Crossover” for Quiken. It runs the PC version on my macs. It’s a little slower but solves the problem.
Go to http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
I love the Mac, but I use Parallels on my Mac to keep Quicken and Microsoft Office as I’m not willing to give those up. It’s really great and I can work in Windows XP and the Mac OS at the same time.
I, too, am a long user of Quicken/PC and when I got my MAC was very disappointed with Quicken-Mac (downloading data, data not matching, manually having to sync information). So I tried Moneywell and iBank. Hated Moneywell; however, I liked iBank but the sync was not as smooth as Quicken/PC. I did not like that offline sync was only with .MAC. Mint could not get all financial data, multiple accounts with dashes (xxxxxxx-40, xxxxxx-38); not able to input data which caused me to log separately to see real time information, and cannot sync with desktop. So, I have been waiting for the Quicken Mac upgrade. I do like the Quicken Online and hope I can sync with my desktop smoothly. With my iPhone, 1Password, Quicken Online reminders, I am a little closer to managing our finances real time.
I switched from Quicken to Moneydance in January 2009. I generally like MD but two things I really miss from Quicken: 1) it helps solve errors from previous statements during reconcile, and 2) there are total number of shares columns in the registers for securities. I haven’t seen these features in Moneydance, iBank, MyMoney, or iFinance.
I to am a former PC’er who went to Mac and found that Quicken was not nearly as good as it was on a PC. Besides a lot of the same items that are already listed by several other people on here, I truly miss the little box I could click on and it would tell me when was the last time I wrote a check to a person or company, and give a list and grand total of the amounts. As we all know, we have to scroll forever to find that info.
Command-F will bring up a little “Find” window hat will let you search for many different parts of an entry, in any one or all accounts, in either the forward or backwards direction. That should make finding the last payment to someone easier for you. But you probably already knew that function…and it may not do all that you want, anyway.
As for totaling the payments to someone, why not use one of the “Report” options, they seem super fast and you can specify many options. I think you can even save a report format. Of course, this is certainly not as easy as checking a box. And I think we know many of the ‘pains’ of which you speak!
I am using Quicken 2007 for Windows on my Mac. CrossOver from Codeweavers allows me to run it along with MS Office for Windows. And, Crossover costs about $40 US. It’s not perfect, but this costs less than buying Windows. Everything in Quicken seems to work except help.
Hi. I dont mind the $40 if this works well. When you say, “it’s not perfect” is that a comment about buying new software or is there conversion in data that must occur. Thanks very much for any guidance, Bruce
I’m not going to hold my breath for this release.
I have used Quicken for nearly 20 years. I’ve had a Mac for over 10 years and Quicken for Mac doesn’t function well. I’m still using the Windoz version. I’d switch in a heartbeat if it was anything close to the Windoz version and imported my data correctly. Data just doesn’t go back and forth well.
I use Quicken for Windows under Parallels. Now that Picasa works great on Mac OS, there’s almost nothing else left I need Windows for. Rhapsody is one… If the new Quicken for Mac really works, I’ll switch, but otherwise live with having the 2 OS’s on my Mac.
Like so many here I have used Quicken for close to two decades. I have tried several of the alternatives but they all seemed to have at least one “deal breaker” feature lacking.
About 3 months ago I discovered a finance program I had never heard of called “Prospects”. WOW! This was exactly what I had been looking for. It was easily reconcilable, has dynamic reporting, great transaction import matching, the ability to sort accounts (and recons) by ANY column and on and on.
There are a couple of very minor things to get used to, but once you do this program is great. It doesn’t yet import transactions directly from my banks. You download and then import. But it works flawlessly and the developer is VERY responsive and continues to improve this software.
I wish these guys were getting more press. I have FINALLY dumped Quicken and have never been happier.
I am still using Quicken for the Mac 2006! Everything seems to work find except it is unable to correctly download the investments portion.
I do not use Quicken to pay bills, but rather do that online via my bank.
I look forward to the new Quicken, but I would like to try it out before purchasing. If it cannot handle my investments I will stay with 2006.
I converted to a Mac about 2 years ago and have never looked back. Unfortunately, because I can’t get all the Quicken functionality in any other product, I have to run VMWare — just so I can use Quicken! Please Intuit….. Please, Please, Please…… PLEASE give us a MAC version of Quicken that has ALL the functionality of the Windows version!
I am begging……
I am also a long time (20 yrs +) quicken user on a pc. Finally decided to try a new Imac with the intel chip that runs xp using VMware. I tried to bring over the program but had difficulty. I talked quicken help and they said that “Quicken is not supported on virtual system as it may damage your data file or the program installation. Since, it is not designed to work this way, it may or may not work, we do not suggest our customers to use it on Virtual systems.”
How did you get it working with VMware? It’s hard to believe that a program this popular doesn’t have a good Mac version.
Help!
I share the frustration of having to run 2 OS – Win XP 64 and Snow Leopard just to get to Quicken Personal Plus! VMWare works seamlessly and supports all my other windows stuff such as Office etc. The file sharing is particularly nice as you can open a windows file directly from Finder. Lots of other great features too.
If there is not a book available for the new Quicken for Mac, I will not buy the new program.
Did anyone try using Windows on Mac, and run Quicken??
I’ve been using Quicken w/ PC in Canada for years, works great!But I want to
switch to Mac now as PC has so much trouble; so I have been reading all the
apps from Mac and see if that will work for me; but I need to use Quicken a lot
and I don’t want to keep both PC and Mac! Need advise!
When you get your new Mac, you could use Boot Camp, if you can grab a copy of it. I think Apple stopped including it with Snow Leopard. If you can’t do that, you can get one of the two main Windows emulators, Fusion and Parallels. That would be an extra cost, but their advantage is that you can have Windows and Snow Leopard running at the same time. Some say Windows (not sure which version) actually ran faster on a Mac than on a PC! By having both OSs running at the same time you can easily do cut/copy/paste between documents on each system. That’s just what I’ve been told/read. I don’t use either emulator nor do I have any Windows programs. ;-)
I’ve been playing with Prospect for a few days. It is easy to use, can do split transactions and appears to be stable. However, it is woefully lacking in reporting and, worst of all, it appears the developer is no longer supporting it for an unknown reason. Hopefully not because of illness! But that is always the biggest concern for any kind of long term use of an application and it’s hard to make a living with a ‘one-man-shop!’
I have Quicken on my PC & it is a love-hate relationship (more hate than love). It gets the job done but the crummy software breaks so many rules & conventions that it drives me crazy. Surely there is someone out there who could write a better program with the same power as quicken but without all the quirks. I would dump Intuit in a nanosecond if there were some comparable options.
-evan
This thread has been very helpful. Anyone try Cha-Ching? Was wondering how it compared to iBank, especially, as I’m looking for something that syncs with an iPhone. Thanks!
using quicken 2009 on imac using Crossover For Mac — so far it looks pretty good. There are some display glitches with fonts, but overall everything works.
Dear Mike
How can you be using Quicken 2009? Isnt it due for release in February?
I recently purchased a Mac after many years on the PC, and decided to buy Fusion solely for the purpose of keeping my Quicken 2007 for Windows running. That version of Quicken does everything I want, I am comfortable with it, and I couldn’t beat the $9 cost for Fusion ($59 purchase – $50 rebate with a Mac machine). In the last 2 weeks I have had no problems other than a very minor annoyance that when I start it always gives the intro asking if I am new to quicken or if I want to open an existing data file – I select the file and it runs like a champ (faster than on the old PC).
IF Intuit gets around to actually putting out the Mac version, and IF the total re-write they describe is stable and matches the capabilities of the Quicken 2007 for Windows, I will happily switch to the native app. Until then, Fusion answers my needs. Thanks for a great thread!
Update – I just upgraded to Quicken 2010 for windows, running under Fusion, and everything runs perfect (no longer have the start-up window, so maybe that would have been resolved with a re-install the first time around?).
As slow as Intuit is for support for the Mac, I don’t see any way that they will be close to the Windows features. (I loaded TurboTax, and the Mac version does not import from TaxCut, but the the Windows version does – seems like Mac is pretty low on their priority list)
FYI – “Intuit completes acquisiton of Mint.com” posted Nov 2.
http://blog.quicken.intuit.com/announcement/2009/11/02/intuit-completes-acquisition-of-mint-com/
I just downloaded Quicken for Mac 2007 and am breaking out in a cold sweat with regret. I was so happy with the Quicken app on my iPhone and integrated account features on my free Quicken online account that I felt comfortable making the $70.00 investement in Quicken for Mac. So far I’m extremely disappointed as there is no straightforward way to sync my online account data that took hours to set up with the software I just installed on my MacBook!
GET A CLUE INTUIT!
Stick with the PC version of Quicken. Run it on a mac with “Crossover”
Go to http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
It’s the best compromise until Quicken gets the Mac thing together.
For my personal banking, I have been running Quicken since choice over Money was made soon after Windows PC replaced Commodore 64. Every couple of years, a new quicken program was installed. I bought a new Mac mini in July 2007 and went to the Mac 2007 version. I await the new Intel model with baited breath. I would very much like to put the many reconcile redoes behind me. I guess my dads law, that the books for the country Lumber Yard would balance before I left for the day or into the night, stuck with me. How I would have liked to have the digital machines in place of Cash Books and Ledgers that had to be in balance,
I ordered an iMac on Black Friday ’09… It hasn’t come in yet, but one reason I ordered it (switching from PC) was that Quicken 2010 was promised. Now that I read all this and I realize I will have to compromise in one of the main areas I use my PC for, I think I’ll return the iMac unopened and just get a $400 PC.
In the old PC vs. Mac argument, THIS is the example the Mac people always deny. I guess Mac really is more for photos and music. There’s more to what I do than that.
I’m not interested in paying bills from a Quicken replacement. I want to track investments (and be able to calculate basis and profit, which I now hear that Q-Mac-2010 will NOT do), and reconcile bank accounts. Isn’t there anything that does both and runs on Mac?
This is a huge disappointment. I’ve read that Quicken represents a very small percentage of Intuit’s business now, and they really just don’t care.
“I will have to compromise in one of the main areas I use my PC for, I think I’ll return the iMac unopened and just get a $400 PC.”
Why not use Virtualbox its free. And use Windows XP or 7. I use that for Quickbooks and Money.
A lot less headache to use Windows for 2 apps rather than everything.
How a company like intuit could so blatantly trash a franchise like Quicken for Mac is beyond common sense.
The blame goes to the (what has to be absentee management) top, and downhill from there. This kind of moronic thinking deserves to lose us as customers, and has, permanently.
Try iBank and its companion, iBiz.
Built for the Mac, it does the job just fine. They may be smaller, newer, but the franchise from Intuit is so totally undependable, unreliable, and inconsistent, why not switch?
I use Quicken at two locations – main home and weekend place. Both are now Windows systems. I plan to change one of the systems to a Mac. Anyone have any experience working with the same file on both systems? I assume I have to run it under a dual operating system environment on the Mac. I am using the Quicken 2007 version.
I use the Quicken 2007 on my Dell desktop and then update the information to my MacBook when I am on the road. I am using VMware Fusion and other than Quicken opening very slowly on the Mac, I have no problem with updating the information and transferring the updates between the Mac and the PC.
I am using Quicken for Mac 2004 and wish to upgrade to 2010 for Mac. Their website says that 2010 will only convert previous versions’ files from 2005 and up. So I talked with a Quicken CSR and they told me not to worry, that when it is released in Feb, 2010 will come with Quicken 2007 (presumable to convert older files).
I’m sure no one can blame me, given Intuits lackluster support and communication credibility, if I don’t trust them. Can anyone confirm this for me, or provide an alternative solution? Thanks!
I do not blame you the only thing I would recommend is to make a backup of your old Quicken data before upgrading. That way if it does not work you have not lost your old data.
However, don’t expect a refund from Intuit.
Sounds like the answer for iMac is:
1 VMWare Fusion
2 Windows 7 Home
3 Quicken 2010 (to upgrade current Quicken 2008)
Total $368
Hard to believe I could ever say this, but I wish I had just purchased a Windows 7-based PC than my shiny new Apple in 2009 – I didn’t know how bad Quicken for the Mac was until I read all the negative reviews after buying my iMac. I should have considered the most important software I own before “upgrading” to the iMac. Everyone told me “iMacs just ‘work’.”
Fred,
Do yourself a favor and look into using the Windows version of Quicken under either VMware’s Fusion (works great for me), Crossover (recommended above), or VirtualBox (freeware). Any of these options would allow you to run Quicken for Windows (and many other Windows applications if you ever need), while still being able to enjoy a “less frustrating” Mac operating system. You really can have the best of both worlds!
I too am a recent convert over to MAC. I have a Mac Book Pro computer. I immediately purchased VMFusion and have had no trouble with Quicken (I have been using Quicken 10+years). The change over was virtually seamless. Downloading from my bank is not perfect, but that has nothing to do with the MAC. It is a Quicken issue. I do agree that Quicken service does leave something to be desired.
I’m still using Quicken 2003 on my 2008 Mac Mini under OS X 10.5.8. Works just fine for my simple needs (i.e., I’m just managing multiple checking, savings, and credit card accounts; am fine with downloading QIF files from the bank, running them through QIF Master to get categories inserted, and manually importing into Quicken). I don’t know yet how it’ll perform under Snow Leopard, as that project comes this afternoon. iBank does sound intriguing, however, so I’ll be looking into that. Thanks for the tip!
I have read these comments with interest. I used Quicken on a PC for years. I switched to Mac some years ago. I am wanting to get back into using Quicken again. The product, 2010 coming in February 2010 looks promising. The last version I used a quick and was there home and business version.
Does anyone know if the features for H & B are included in the one coming out or is there some online comparison that I could consult. There used to be all kinds of comparison charts with the versions of Quicken for PC. Does that exist anymore in regard to the Mac versions?
Wow, what a great thread. I’ve been using Quicken on Windows since about 1994 (and before that I was running Managing Your Money for Mac on an Atari ST running a Mac emulator in the game card slot!).
I currently use Quicken Premier 2007 which does nearly all that I want including investment tracking downloads and online bill paying. I also use NeatWorks to scan receipts and import date/payee/amount/category/account into Quicken as QIF files, which makes manual data entry somewhat less tedious. But I wish Quicken would incorporate this type of scan feature as it takes too many steps (scan receipts, confirm the OCR got everything right), save a file for each account, import each file into appropriate account in Quicken, and then accept each imported (“downloaded”) transaction. Plus, NeatWorks is a bit buggy (crashes every so often).
I don’t hold high hopes for upcoming Quicken for Mac, at least not in the first release.
Looking at Prospect and iBank, I think I will give the latter a try. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks, everyone, for the helpful comments on this thread. I purchased a new iMac back in April and have been running my windows Quicken 2009 with VMWare Fusion. I had been counting down to the day when the new Mac Quicken would finally be released and I would have nothing left on Windows but a couple of games — but I guess I’ll stay with what I’ve got and be glad that it works.
I am a long time Quicken user presently using Quicken 2009 on Windows XP. I want to convert to Mac but before it do I want to work out the Quicken problem. Fusion seems like the way to go but will it require a additional purchase of Windows XL software or will it transfer Windows XP from my current computer??
Thanks
In reply to Paul – two thumbs up for Windows Quicken Premier 2010 on Fusion on Mac. Intuit doesn’t have their act together, but Fusion makes it totally painless.
Regarding your question on XP – If you will no longer be using your Windows machine, you should be able to use that OS on Fusion. (Some sources warned the OEM copies of OS would not work, I had no problem with a Dell XP OS transferred to Fusion. Run Fusion in “Unity” mode, and you won’t even know you have windows! (Other than the regular Windows update notices that should continue to be installed).
Good Luck!
Dan
I LOVED Quicken back in the day. I used it when it first came out on my apple computer and navigated my way through college with it. I really liked the PC version and just recently went to the Mac version 2007. What garbage! I wish I had my PC version back. This 2007 version is just clunky and has to be constantly double-checked because it does a whole number of odd things that make no sense. I long for the good ole days!
I am a long time Quicken user and bought Quicken for Mac and it was a holy terror. I’m interested in Quicken Mac 2010, but they’ve yet to convince me they have fixed it. I really think they should give me my money back on the previous Mac version and then let me try 2010. They promised support. I could never get a human for anything. I left messages, sent emails, etc. I run VMware fusion anyhow and my quicken for windows runs just fine. Now they threaten to shut me down for 2007 Home and business unless I upgrade. Where’s the loyalty in that? They took me for a ride on the Mac version and now they way me to pay again for what is already working for me.
Thanks for all the comments. I just got a MacPro and am ready to start to use a financial program. My needs are very basic and I have no prior experience nor any data to migrate. Your comments suggest I should consider working with the windows side of my Mac (something I have yet to learn or do) and then use VMware. I guess I will learn how to use Windows 7 home before I move ahead. All the comments have really been helpful.
From the Quicken Web Site for Quicken Essentials for Mac. Wow, a real upgrade – NOT!
1. Can I track my investments?
Yes, Quicken Essentials for Mac allows you to track the overall value of your investment accounts and the value of your specific holdings. It will not, however, track investment buys and sells, nor will it provide some advanced investment performance reports. If you need more more advanced investment features, try Quicken Mac 2007.
2. Can I export my data to TurboTax?
Quicken Essentials for Mac does not support that capability. If you’d like that functionality, we recommend trying Quicken Mac 2007.
3. Can I pay my bills within Quicken?
While you cannot pay bills within the product itself (“direct bill pay”), you can track your bills and make sure you have enough cash to pay them when they’re due. A few alternatives available include using Quicken Mac 2007 or using the bill pay functionality on Quicken Bill Pay.
I have been using Quicken 2002 version on my iMac and have had no problems with it. I have 22 registers on it, some going back to January 1998. I haven’t found any reason to upgrade or switch to another product.
I, too, am a long-time Quicken user, and just went from
a windows pc to the Imac Snow Leopard. I tried
Quicken 2007 for Mac, and it was incompatible. I am using Quicken 2006 on my laptop right now, but would like to use in on my Mac, since it is one of the main things I use a computer for. I have the transferred data for over 10 years on the Mac, but can’t open it.
Contacted Quicken support to inquire when I didn’t see any way to pre-order the new version of quicken for mac that seems to be on the way. Their response (and I cut and paste):
I would like to inform you that we no longer support Quicken for Mac in Canada however, if you have any question or technical issue with the Quicken for Macintosh then please contact Quicken US support at:
https://quicken.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/quicken.cfg/php/enduser/contact.php?plvl1=win
You can use Quicken mac US version in Canada also. Once you buy Quicken for mac you need to change its country preferences, Quicken US technical support people will help you how to change country preferences from US to Canada.
I guess I’d sum up my reaction as “bizarre”. Sure hope someone else puts out a credible alternative to quicken so I have somewhere to move my finances. Like others I am not interested in mint or any solution that gives others access to my financial information. I’m a mixed Winzose/mac home, moving to 100% mac … so Intuit just lost my business to be sure.
Has anyone purchased the 2010 version and use in Canada and able to download from a Canadian bank?
Has anyone tried Moneydance?
Here’s the latest update in the “why don’t you deliver Quicken for Mac in Canada?” saga. I find the closing comment particularly humorous … if my satisfaction was important to them I suggest this exchange would have gone very differently.
This version of Quicken is available with Quicken US department and you can buy this software from them and use it in Canada.
You can contact Quicken US on http://www.quicken.com
Why does Intuit not offer a Canadian Mac product?
Intuit always wants to provide our customers with the best possible end-to-end experience with our products and services. We do not feel that the US Quicken for Mac product will deliver this experience for Canadian users.
Can I use the US version of the product?
There is a US version of Quicken for Mac; however, it does not offer a full feature set to Canadian customers. This product is also experiencing some issues with downloading stock quotes. This is why we recommend our customers use a Canadian version of Quicken for the best product and experience.
Will the windows version of Quicken work on a Mac running XP, Vista or through an emulator?
We have not tested Quicken on the new Mac platform yet so we aren?t sure. We do offer a 60 day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the product or it doesn?t work on your system.
Why did you recommend the US product in the first place?
Although there are workarounds and modifications that can be made to the US product so it can work for most users in Canada, we found over time that the experience for our customers was not as good as it is for users of Canadian Windows-based users.
What issues might a Canadian user face using a product geared for the US Market?
? Quicken for Mac is a US product that hasn?t been specifically developed for use in Canada
? Quicken for Mac does not have the ability to print Canadian cheques based on the new standard from the CPA.
? Quicken for Mac?s sales tax functionality is not as flexible as CDN versions of Quicken. Can be more cumbersome than time saving.
? Customers who deal in multiple currencies will not be able to do so in the US Mac version.
? Customers who track their investments in the Mac version are not able to use average cost basis, as required by CCRA
If you have any further questions or concerns please reply back to this email and we will be happy to assist you. Your satisfaction with Intuit’s support is very important to us.
Can this application be used by Canadians?
I’m out-a-here! Between Quicken and my bank and how Quicken handles the QIF imports, I quit! I tried to simply create a new file (despite the warnings by Quicken) and start over with a known balance as of 12/1/2009. So I figured the “Export…” of ‘All transactions with Accounts, categories and classes selected for November through today would grab 99% of every thing. Well, at least I got the transactions, sort of: no splits, no Payee/Category/Class data, only one account. I’m starting over with Money Dance (it imports QIF files fine and handles inserting them much easier and more intuitive than Quicken, IMHO). I don’t use/need the securities and some of the other esoteric niceties of Quicken. It’s done well for me for 10+ years, but Intuit’s total lack of support for a growing segment of their market seems unchanging, not to mention insulting. So long, good luck guys, see you on the other side! ;-)
i look at quicken but it is not for uk market i like money dance seems a nice little program but i seem to get on with fortora fresh finance works well
had no problems for just general bank software it is good worth trying
I just got my Mac and was planning to go total immersion and not run any windows-based programs…that is until I tried using Entourage instead of Outlook and Quicken Essentials versus the PC version.
So I installed VM Ware and both are working fine except when I open Quicken it always asks me if I am a new or existing user and to select a data file. If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.
Never mind. I figured it out. I just had to pull the files into a directory on the VM Ware C: drive instead of where there were on Mac drive.
My mother-in-law had some problems with her Quicken 2006 (which has been running great for 2-3 years on her iMac under Parallels), and it took all of one evening testing out the new Mac Quicken to go screaming back to the Windows version. Hopefully they honor that 60-day guarantee, maybe she can apply the money to the current 2010 version.
I saw the posting about Prospects from Apple and will try that out. I have been using Quicken 2003 on my Macbook and it is starting to do weird things, like losing my recent reconciliations, and not entering scheduled transactions. Does anyone else have comments about Prospects?
I have had lots and lots of problems switching to Quicken from Money like Maria. I lose reconciliations at least every other month. Tech support is always telling me that I must be accessing a backup account by mistake. But I back up on removable drives that I disconnect before using the files again. It’s enough to make me go back to paper!
I am sorely disappointed in Quicken Essentials for Mac 2010. You can’t log in your investments as in previous versions, you can’t track your investments as in previous versions, you lose your memorized transactions – what kind of lousy “upgrade” is this? I think it’s awful. It’s just a basic spreadsheet. Not at all worth the money, and just a very substandard software.