Dissapointing

Well, I’ve been a long time Quicken user (like so many others.) When I switched to “all Mac’s” at first I ran Quicken for Windows in a VM and then when Essentials came out I switched. Essentials was a buggy beast but I had it working. Then suddenly it stoped being able to read downloaded bank transactions. Probably a ploy by Intuit to force us loyal users to upgrade.

Tax seaons is here and I needed to update records so I went for 2016. I don’t use any of Quickens features other than just an electronic place to hold all my transactions and having the ability to search them easily.

What I discovered was that there were some things in essentials that were fixed. For example, you can now “link” a bank account to an existing account when quicken detects a new account ID from your bank. Something that in the past caused me to have to basically create a “new” account under essentials. That was nice.

The down side is that it can’t count correctly when doing a simple reconcile. I had to ‘hand adjust’ 90% of my accounts to get it happy. What a piece of crap from a banking software package. Additionally I had it crash on me twice in the first hour of use. Not a good sign. Its a very buggy piece of software.

Overall, its slightly better than nothing and I think a small upgrade over essentials, so I gave it 3 stars.

Lord-Moon about Quicken 2016