Quicken Deluxe NEW Subscriber Personal Finance – Manage your money with your First Year Subscription to Quicken (Windows/Mac)

I use Quicken to track my finances (banking, MM, and CDs) and investments (brokerage and retirement accounts). I want all my data stored on my PC and back-ups, I do not store anything in the cloud, nor use online portfolio trackers. I hand enter my transactions, only downloading quotes. Quicken Deluxe adequately supports my usage habits. I do NOT like the subcription-basis of Quicken and would prefer a return to the stand-alone purchase and upgrade very two to three years for improved versions. I am actively seeking a non-subscription substitute for Quicken.

I have used Quicken software for 20 years to track my investments and transactions. They were cutting edge when it first came out and were the leader for a long time. They lost their way, probably after they were sold to a private equity group. I stuck with them because changing is a hassle, or so I thought. After yet another issue dealing with downloads from a particular brokerage that would require me to reset my accounts yet again I decided to make the switch. It took about an hour to get set up with an cloud based finance company and it is actually easier to use and more informative. I should make made the switch 5 years ago.

First, if you are used to double entry bookkeeping you lose all the advantages of it. You have to be an accountant to appreciate what that means. Single entry is prone to mistakes. But you will find many faults in Quicken, many of which have been identified--something you will find if you go down the rabbit hole when looking for an answer to a vexing issue. Just one example; How you list an account in the Account list is clearly important. But say you want to move the intent of an account from retirement to investments. Turns out if you have a Mac there is a way to do this. Windows users? Out of luck. And there are many such differences and anomalies in the app. What is even more maddening when you look at the dates of questions users have pointed out, is that Quicken (Intuit actually) has known about these deficiencies for multiple years and failed to fix them. Ive noticed as an accountant that the accounting profession lost first place as definers of accounting principles and practices to programmers and computer nerds. These well-meaning but inept folks have decided to write programs according to their own mysterious cyber-based accounting principles.

This is only for NEW USERS , USERS THAT HAVE NEVER PUT QUICKEN ON THEIR COMPUTER .

Looks like the same product I have been using for 20+ years, but the price has gone up. Instead of using a version for three or four years, I now have to replace it every year in order to download financial data. Looking for a substitute.

I have been using this product for over 15 years. I love it

I have used Quicken since it was a dos program but I really dislike this yearly pay to use yearly fee!!

With the 2022 version of Quicken and beyond, they now REQUIRE a membership. If you do not renew your membership, the main page has two large banners letting you know your membership has expired. This also hides tabs that you should be able to see. Quicken will also pop up messages when you try to do things, letting you know your membership has expired. I have used Quicken for 10+ years. The <2022 versions did NOT do this.

I love this software.

Activation. Bought to use for personal use