Quicken Essentials for Mac Personal Finance Software
off32 | Feb 25, 2010 | 5 comments
- 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 Description
Easy guided set up gets you up and running in minutes.Amazon.com Product Description
Quicken 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 >>
Quicken Essentials for Mac Personal Finance Software
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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’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 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
Quicken Essentials for the Mac suffers the same problem as Dennis Lehane’s thriller, Shutter Island: They both have bad endings.
I’m a dedicated Quicken for Mac user, have been since the days of dot matrix printers. I’ve used various versions of the program for almost 20 years. This newest one installed fine, updated my old files flawlessly, and gave me terrific charts with only a few clicks. I linked my accounts with online banking and had everything uptodate within minutes.
Then the nightmare began. I started hunting around for how to print checks, a primary feature of all past versions of Quicken. I checked out the Help file. Not there. I went online to Quicken support, only to get confirmation of my worst fears: check writing is all a dream, just like the ending of Shutter Island. I only imagined that sane people were in charge of designing this update.
So save your money: skip Shutter Island and Quicken Essentials for the Mac!
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this software Feb 18, almost as soon as it hit the stores. Believe me, it was the biggest disappointment ever. As a Quicken user of 12 years, this software is not recognizable. It’s nothing but a budget tracker, with none of the advanced features of Quicken for Windows. Actually, this software is like Quicken for Windows, minus 90% of the functionality. Quicken Essentials is really just that, the bare bones basics. You cannot even set up your paycheck, cannot use online billpay, cannot use with TurboTax, and you cannot even download or manually enter individual stock transactions. And most shocking of all, you can’t even back up your data!!!! Am I angry? You bet I am. Instead of Quicken Essentials, it should be called Quicken Kindergarten. The following is quoted directly from their setup guide. I wish they put this stuff on the box.
“As much as we improved the experience of using Quicken when we rebuilt it from the ground up, there are some features you may have been used to using in Quicken for Mac (or Quicken for Windows) that we didn’t include in this version of Quicken Essentials.
Investments
Quicken Essentials lets you to track the overall value of your investment accounts and the value of specific holdings, but the software does not track individual buys and sells, nor will it provide some advanced investment performance reports.
Exporting to TurboTax
Quicken Essentials does not currently support the ability to export your data to TurboTax.
Direct bill pay
You can track your bills in Quicken Essentials, but the program doesn’t have the direct bill pay capabilities that allow you to pay your bills directly from the program.
Other advanced features
Quicken Essentials does not include many of the advanced features in other versions of Quicken, including Business features, Rental Property, lifetime planner, cash flow forecast, spending plan, debt reduction plan, emergency tax records, tax planner, and home inventory manager.”
If Quicken for Windows is worth a retail price of $60 to $70, then this new version of Quicken for the Mac is worth at most 5 bucks. Seriously, it does nothing more than downloads transactions and helps you track your spending or maintain a budget. I feel like a total fool for purchasing this product and will be returning it to Intuit. And to think I waited almost 3 years for this product. I was really expecting to be impressed. After Intuit’s horrible experience with TurboTax last year, I really can’t believe they have the temerity to unleash this worthless product on the market. I expect people at Intuit to get fired over this disaster, and deservedly so. This product looks like it was designed by an 8th grader in order to help a 3rd grader do his arithmetic. And did I mention the graphics? Oh, so elementary. That little pink pig next to my savings account makes me want to scream !!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5