Quicken Starter Personal Finance – Start taking control of your money – 1-Year Subscription (Windows/Mac)

Ive used Quicken all my life. Upgraded back in 2016 and was using it ever since. Due to an unrelated issue, I had to reinstall all my PC software. Come to find out Im not allowed to reinstall and use my Quicken, that I purchased, anymore. That just didnt sit very well with me. The software worked well enough to balance my checkbook, but they have lost a customer forever with this. Whats worse is I cant even access my account information to review for tax reasons.

Tech support is very good

this was geared to om-line banking., not something im going to use. The 2006 version was easier to use.

Be advised that if you purchase the Starter edition as I did and you discover that you need features only available in the Premier edition, you will need to have chosen a Data File Password in the Starter edition before you upgrade. If you dont do this the Premier edition will ask for a Data File Password before it can open the file set up in the Starter edition. Live tech support could not solve this problem. Quicken web support states that you can click on the Forgot My Password button and you can get a code to create the Data File Password. However, the button leads nowhere and you are stuck with no resolution. I was able to load an earlier back up file where I could create the Data File Password but had to re-enter a years data. Very frustrating that tech support could not help. Otherwise I am very pleased with how the program allows easy entry of data and has good reporting features. I will continue to use it for now even though I will have to pay for it annually.

It should be two or three years, not one.

CRAP! After your subscription runs out you can not even open it up to look at your data. It becomes useless you have to shell out another 39.99 for nother year subscription. What a rip off. Save your money.

I had trouble due to needing to reset my password. Tech support was great.

In the info for this product Quicken says: Youll always have full access to, and full ownership of your data. That is a lie, You could work around the large banner ads that you need to renew that take over the screen, but After your membership expires you will get a pop-up message that you cant complete that action without renewing for every single action you perform. You need to click through the message each time and in entering one split transaction you have to click through it ten times or more. That is hardly full access to your data, it is unusable.

Wonderful financial tool. Worth the money.

Ive been using quicken for 10+ years and it used to be the de-facto go-to product for tracking your finances and downloading transactions from online. Since Quickens sale from Inuit to HIG in 2016 (not many users know about this), this product has been driven into the ground by agressive attempts to monetize the userbase without providing new features or values. They added a buggy online sync system that frequently corrupts your historical data causing you to go to backups and have to re-enter data. Even if that system is off, new patches will actually corrupt your historical data causing you to have to chase down 1yr+ back in historical data to find a random transaction that is corrupted/buggy. Worst part, HIG switched Quicken into a recurring subscription model for online services, but if you let the subscription expire to use the tool offline, they fill 20%+ of the application with red and yellow nag screens. Since being sold to HIG, its clear that Quicken is now just trying to squeeze every last dollar out of its userbase before enough people leave the tool and the product ultimately dies. Recommend everyone stay away from this tool.