Any suggestions for alternatives to Quicken??
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I blissfully used MS Money for years with no problems at all, but after Microsoft shuttered their Money development I reluctantly switched over to Quicken. How MS lost this battle is an utter mystery. After a year of really trying to make Quicken work I have to give up. MS Money was a breeze - in and out of the program quickly, everything just worked. Not so with Quicken. What a quirky and error prone POS. :mad: It has just recently started to double up on online payments that I initiate from Quicken. That's right, I tell Quicken to send a payment to my credit card company today and it both sends the bank instructions and enters the payment in my bank account register. All is well and good. Two days later, when I download items from the bank, Quicken shows the credit card payment as a second payment to the card company. It refuses to let me match the downloaded payment with the pre-existing payment, so I have to go through and delete one or the other. Their online help system is worthless, so I'm going to jettison this pig from my life. OK, now that I've gotten that out of my system, what alternatives do any of you folks use that you can recommend highly? Thanks
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DD - While I love Excel to death, it's rather lacking when the time comes to automatically download from the banks, the credit card companies, etc., and to then do all the transaction matching, etc.
Really? I have a large excel application (wot I wrote myself) that picks up data, produces all sorts of reports and has several reconcilliation functions. (To be fair I am an Excel Guru (Ninja Class) and have been using it for 20 years).
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I blissfully used MS Money for years with no problems at all, but after Microsoft shuttered their Money development I reluctantly switched over to Quicken. How MS lost this battle is an utter mystery. After a year of really trying to make Quicken work I have to give up. MS Money was a breeze - in and out of the program quickly, everything just worked. Not so with Quicken. What a quirky and error prone POS. :mad: It has just recently started to double up on online payments that I initiate from Quicken. That's right, I tell Quicken to send a payment to my credit card company today and it both sends the bank instructions and enters the payment in my bank account register. All is well and good. Two days later, when I download items from the bank, Quicken shows the credit card payment as a second payment to the card company. It refuses to let me match the downloaded payment with the pre-existing payment, so I have to go through and delete one or the other. Their online help system is worthless, so I'm going to jettison this pig from my life. OK, now that I've gotten that out of my system, what alternatives do any of you folks use that you can recommend highly? Thanks
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Really? I have a large excel application (wot I wrote myself) that picks up data, produces all sorts of reports and has several reconcilliation functions. (To be fair I am an Excel Guru (Ninja Class) and have been using it for 20 years).
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Pah - 20 years. You're a mere tyke in the Excel world. Pretty sure I started using it in 1990, when you had to start up some prehistoric version of Windows from the DOS prompt before starting Excel. A few years back I might have been a Ninja class guru, but have had little reason of late to build the big, complex models of years past, and the half-life of knowledge, for me at least, is frighteningly short. Use it or lose it is so, so true for me. I really HAVE forgotten more than a lot of people know. Over the years I've toyed with doing it all in Excel, but it was so easy in Money that it was never worth the effort. Plus, all the heavy lifting of connecting to the financial institutions, downloading the transactions (including any stock trades, splits, dividends, etc) was already done. Why even try to reinvent the wheel?
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I did some time ago, but was still trying to wrestle Quicken into submission and didn't give it much time. Can it send online payment info to your bank?
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I've used MoneyDance[^] for the last few years. Works just fine.
It looks intriguing. You find it worth the price, then?
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I'll compare it to the other suggestions. Thanks
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What have you written? ;) [serious] Try MMEX[^]
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I'll take a look at it. Are you using it? And are you happy with it?
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It looks intriguing. You find it worth the price, then?
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I'll also throw in, via a 3rd party, for mint.com. Our team lead uses it, used to use Quicken until they became dysfunctional, and he has told me that mint is great and does what he needs it to do.
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I switched over because my understanding was that after Jan 1 of this year you could no longer use Money to connect to online services from banks and card companies. I didn't wait until the last minute to switch because: 1) wanted some time to run in parallel and validate Quicken's numbers 2) figured that Quicken's overwhelming 'popularity' indicated it was at least as good as Money, so "what's the big deal?"
Duke Carey wrote:
no longer use Money to connect to online services from banks and card companies
That makes no sense; I'd ask for my money back.
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Duke Carey wrote:
no longer use Money to connect to online services from banks and card companies
That makes no sense; I'd ask for my money back.
I don't know the whys and wherefores - just that they said you could no longer do it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2118008[^]