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

Activation. Bought to use for personal use

I have been using Quicken to manage my finances for as long as I can remember. Today, I am not sure I can trust this product. It is as quirky as can be, and I dont feel my information is safe with a company that doesnt seem to use quality assurance engineers to validate their product. Trying to do something as basic as resetting an account number after a credit card breach, is simply impossible. The application keeps looping through useless steps, never achieving the desired outcome. The application is increasingly slow, maybe because I have over 30 years of records. It crashes more than it should, and goes through weird convulsions where the different windows change size, disappear, reappear, God knows why. Now and then, it will get stuck in a loop that requires a forced kill of the app to get out of. This happens often when doing an online update of all accounts, where you download entries from your bank accounts. Sometimes, something as simple as adding a new credit card account is also impossible. The app will simply not recognize the new account online. Im sure there are tricks to get through all these hurdles, but why does it have to be that way? Quicken has been out for ages. Isnt time we get a stable product? Quicken has a feature to track investments and update transactions by downloading them from your online investments accounts. Once again, this feature falls short. It is quirky at best, and definitely not intuitive.

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

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

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.

read Felix Buzzard review. Its exactly correct. My Im a user of more than 30 years. The program retains the same clunky interface it started with back then. However, Ive not been able to find an alternative. Let me know if there is an alternative that can handle multiple accounts, downloads from financial institutions, reconciliations, and investments. Its become unbearably slow. Many reports of slowness have been logged on the companies web site. Before you but, I suggest you log into the discussion group, search for slow. The results suggest there has been a pervasive and persistent degradation of performance. Quicken seems to take no responsibility for the poor programing, and continues to make the problems worse.

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.

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.

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.