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

This version is just a poor excuse to changing to yearly subscription fee with no significant improvement to the former 2016 edition under Intuit.

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

In the past renewing Quicken, or subscriptions, was only needed if you wanted updates. Those days are over. I just found I couldnt log into Quicken as it wouldnt accept my login info. (It was correct.) Resetting password left me with the same problem. I contacted support and was told the only way to fix it is to renew my subscription. As I dont use, need, or want the online features thats not going to happen. So Buyer Beware. If you dont renew, at some point they will disable your abilty to use it.

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

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 believe they must have fired all of their full time engineers and hired college interns to implement the subscription model and cash cow this product while claiming they are adding new features. Who charges an annual fee for software that crashes when it wants to tell you that there is an update, installs updates so frequently you have to add it to your workflow, then reserves the right to trash any or all of your data on startup? If you use it, keep backups every day because you WILL need them. Ive lost all of my bill pay contacts which I couldnt recover so switched to my banks free bill pay service. I recently started up and it asked me if I wanted to create a budget. I reverted to a backup to recover budgets Ive been keeping for years and spent many hours realigning the data. Im currently in a state where one step update doesnt remember passwords and I have to push data to quicken from my individual bank accounts. I only use this software for its budgeting because mint is still a little lacking in that area.

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.

Im math-handicapped, and we keep everything finance in Quicken. Data entry is easy, fields are clear and well-arranged, easy to use. Search feature is very useful looking for past entries. You can make charts and graphs and calculate investment figures. its the only program Ill ever use.

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.