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Quicken Essentials for Mac Personal Finance Software
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- Quicken Essentials for Mac makes understanding your money a snap
- Updated interface designed by–and for–Mac users
- View your accounts all in one place
- Shows your current balance, including upcoming bills and paychecks
- Automatically categorizes transactions so you can see where your money’s going
Product DescriptionEasy guided set up gets you up and running in minutes. Amazon. com Product DescriptionQuicken Essentials for Mac lets you view your accounts all in one place. It shows your current balance, including upcoming bills and paychecks, automatically categorizes transactions so you can see where your money’s going, and helps you avoid those pesky late fees. Redesigned with you in mind. Click to enlarge. View a snapshot of your most important info. . . . More >>
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February 25, 2010 -
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I’m actually been waiting for this product for 2 years now. I pre-ordered the product in December and alas the product is s scheduled to arrive in a few weeks but now I’m beginning to have buyers’s remorse even though I have yet to try it out first. Every time I go to the Intuit web site to check the status of my order, I notice an option to cancel the order and request a refund. Is this Quicken’s way of telling me I shouldn’t expect much in the way of new features even though it is an upgrade from the older Quicken for MAC 2007 version? Everyone who is anticipating purchasing this product should realize that it is three years in development and was previously delayed from an earlier release twice before. I’m beginning to lean towards keeping my older version and cancelling my purchase.
Rating: 2 / 5
I do not understand it. All these reviews and the product is not to be releases till the end of February. Are you people working with a beta version or what?
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve used Quicken since the late 80’s, and this has to be the worst excuse ever for Mac software. It’s “made for Mac”, but not user friendly. It’s a personal finance program that doesn’t give you a accurate balances on your accounts. What else needs to be said?
On the plus side, It does give you very pretty “clouds” of useless information.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve been a Quicken Mac user since 1992 and have always been a fan of the program. I’ve been using Quicken 2006, and was excited to upgrade to the new Quicken Essentials. But my feelings about this new version are mixed. Converting was a snap, and while I instantly LOVED the new design and interface, I was shocked at just how many features have been dropped. From big things like the ability to enter brokerage and investment information manually (and track all your holdings in a single performance portfolio), to small things like not having a pop up box with drop-down menus to do a quick transfer between accounts. All business reports, and just about every business feature, is gone. You can’t even whip up a balance sheet anymore. In fact, the reports are so limited, I had to go back to Quicken 2006 to print out my 2009 tax info for my accountant. Not good. After the first day, I admit I was seriously considering returning Essentials and going back to 06, or look elsewhere.
But I gave it a few more days and explored the program a little deeper and I’m pleased to report that I’ve turned around. The interface is completely seductive. In fact, the new clarity made me notice that I needed to do a money shuffle to avoid a $100 annual fee. Not sure I would have caught that in the clutter of 2006. I’m still concerned about the limited reports, but I really love how the tags work. But what really turned me was the ease of how Essentials interfaces and downloads information from your banks. This never really worked in ‘06, I entered everything myself and then reconciled, so this is a new world for me, and I like! And maybe it’s not so bad to let the bank handle the complexities of investment and brokerage transactions. I think I was screwing that up anyway, my accounts never seemed to reconcile, but I still desperately miss the old portfolio.
So I’ve made my peace with this new Quicken, and while I’m still missing some of the old features, I’m really enjoying what’s new. But it is sort of depressing to go from a full-throttle fiance program to something that really is the bare “essentials. ” I’m hoping Quicken will offer an update sooner than later and give us Mac users a bit more bang for our bucks.
Rating: 3 / 5
Three and a half years after the last Quicken Mac release (and many more years after problems with Quicken Mac became apparent) comes this disaster. It offers no BillPay, poor acount reconciliation, no export to Turbotax, no investment transaction tracking. And not only doesn’t it allow you to track investment transactions; you can’t even see your investment balances over time (not to mention your overall net worth over time)–just the total numbers as of today. You also can’t manually add investments if the institution doesn’t offer downloading (and some big ones such as Mass Mutual do not and don’t plan to soon, despite all of Intuit’s talk about thousands of institutions). And here’s an indication of how brilliantly this program was designed: You can’t even see today’s account balances at a glance on an opening screen–you have to click through to another screen for that. I could go on (and on and on). Oh yeah: And if you don’t like it, too bad–while data imports well, it apparently can’t be exported. So this is like the Roach Motel–you can check in but you can’t check out.
Suffice it to say that this program would be a huge disappointment even if it were priced at half what it is and even if it had come out right after Quicken Mac 2007. The fact that it’s being priced at $60 and coming out 3-1/2 years later (and many more years after problems with Quicken Mac became apparent) is ridiculous.
Rating: 1 / 5