![]() ![]() I am trying to reconcile my checking account using Quicken Essentials for mac. I have not been able to balance my account since I bought my imac and the program. The 'balance' column in one of my accounts in Quicken does not show. All dates are correct since I have had trouble with that issue before. Checking account shows. (There are other threads on release date and being sold in Best Buy early, but no threads exclusively for the review) I've just downloaded Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac. It's my first experience with Quicken as a whole, but I already get the feeling I'll be taking advantage of their 100% satisfaction guarantee or your money back. One immediate con is that it doesn't link our mortgage as an asset/loan even though the loan is through a major bank. Just wondering what other people's immediate impressions are so far. Many people (including myself) avoid quicken for the Mac. Intuit's extremely poor track record is the major reason. They typically give the mac user the short end of the stick. Charging more for their application and providing less features then their PC counterpart. Additionally those features they did include are usually buggy to boot. No, Intuit isn't getting my money until they provide an application that's on par with their other products. The said thing is that it took them 2 years to produce this application? I've not heard anything good about it. As I said on the other thread, I too also bought the Quicken 2010 for Mac today. 2 words: Very disappointed 1) Investments do not show any detail, they just show the value of the investments of my Roth IRA. 2) The program seems very 'basic', it connects to my bank accounts and syncs fine with it, but other than that, nothing fancy 3) The most dumb feature of this program is that there is no password protection Quicken 2007, 2006, and even Quicken for windows have file protection when opening the program. This version doesn't offer it at all. I am requesting a refund too. Intuit needs to get they act together!!!!!! I have used Quicken so long, more than 10 years, both as a PC user and now as a MAC user. I have downloaded the original Beta and thought that was a bit screwed up but now that I have read the product description and the multiple user reactions on this forum I think Intuit owes its employees and us an apology for placing such a poor product in the market place. For $60 they promise you some future update that may or may not allow you to make transactions through your bank or stock broker. What were they thinking. I wouldn't recommend any MAC user to buy this product we are not second class citizens. I have it and have been running it along side of SEE Finance. My requirements are very simple. I just need to track three checking accounts, a savings account and two credit cards (hopefully the cc requirement will disappear very soon). Its amazing how most financial apps completely fail to perform this task without a bunch of headaches. With the exception of Quicken (both 2007 and the new 2010), one must be very careful not to import duplicate transactions. SEE Finance works fairly well and runs imports through a filter for comparisons. Quicken just works. 2007 did and Essentials does. Granted, it doesn't do much of anything else, but for my needs its just fine AND better than the alternatives. Very disappointing package: I tried it yesterday and after a while I asked for a full refund. First off: I do like the new UI; so much better than Quicken 2006 or 2007 for Mac. Here I do see some potential. Excel software for mac. But that is where anything positive ends. The features are less than what I had with Quicken for Windows in 1995! Cannot track investments correctly. It does convert certain investment and brokerage accounts over, but then sets them to either checking or savings as an account type and you do not have any chance to change that in the account settings. But the true show stopper for me was that they require the user to have all online banking passwords stored on Intuits servers!!!:-(((. And they require you to do that with only a little (in fine print mind you) information. I feel like they are phishing for a lot of personal information. Once you have fallen for this, there is hardly a reliable way to manage your own personal banking information on their servers. Spent about an hour with their online chat support, only to be misinformed at first ('we do not store your information') to than half way admitting that they in fact do store that info on their servers. Only solution besides 'not to worry as the info is encrypted', is to painstakingly delete or deactivate online access to each account you have enabled. And you need to do this for each data file you have started (I did about three as I was trying to play around with the software). Also, not an acceptable solution when you have about 30 to 35 individual accounts that you are trying to track. Absolutely a bad business decision as I do want to keep certain personal info personal and do not want to have it stored on a server somewhere without any control!! After over 15 years with Quicken data (first Win than Mac) I am finally willing to walk away from this company. Right now using iBank - not sure yet if this will do what I need, but it looks at least promising.
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