so who will buy Quicken and what is our future

Intuit, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to jettison Quicken to anyone interested in buying a user base of 1MM+. Although we customers helped ge t them to where they are, they don't care. So after having been a loyal cu stomer for 30 years, I am ++++ed. My database is extensive and i am hopele ssly married to the program. What now coach?

Maybe, Microsoft will buy then in an act of final irony as Money went down the toilet some time ago.

Screw Intuit.

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pncboy85
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I was a long time MS Money user. The only reason I migrated to Q was the one step update for all my banks & credit cards. If nobody buys the program I will be facing the same problem. No active connections to any of my financial institutes. We may have to revert to manual monthly downloads & hopefully the banks keep the format.

I can't believe a monopoly is not profitable. Something else must be going on here.

Intuit, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to jettison Quicken to anyone interested in buying a user base of 1MM+. Although we customers helped get them to where they are, they don't care. So after having been a loyal customer for 30 years, I am ++++ed. My database is extensive and i am hopelessly married to the program. What now coach?

Maybe, Microsoft will buy then in an act of final irony as Money went down the toilet some time ago.

Screw Intuit.

Reply to
Scott W

I don't understand your problem. When you purchased the software, you weren't buying a lifetime commitment. Quicken 2015 (and soon Quicken 2016) will be functional from now at least until MS releases their next version of Windows and probably the version after that. Worst case is that the banks that are paying Intuit to license One Step downloads stop doing so (as some have already decided). You'll still be able to manually enter transactions and stock prices.

On the up side, someone may buy the product and nurse it along a few more releases.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

I can't imagine that nobody will buy it. If Intuit can't get as much as they want for it, they'll lower the price until someone buys it. It's better to get less for it than nothing at all.

Reply to
Ken Blake, MVP

Sure.

Sure, but as far as I'm concerned not having OSU will be a big loss.

Reply to
Ken Blake, MVP

As has been discussed here several times, the world has moved on. The day of the home desktop PC has passed, replaced by tablets, smartphones and cloud computing.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

I agree - at the risk of dating myself, I think back to the days when I used Managing your Money and entered transactions in manually. It is possible.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't agree. It's happening, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe in a few more years.

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Ken Blake, MVP

Of course it's possible. It's even possible to do it entirely manually, without a computer at all. I, and probably most of us here, can certainly remember those days.

But possible doesn't mean desirable, and desirability was what I was talking about.

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Ken Blake, MVP

I don't agree. It's happening, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe in a few more years.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I agree with you, Ken. They will have to pry my home desktop PC from my cold, dead hands. I, for one, when away from my home PC, only use an old style flip type cell phone for communication. I have NO NEED to always have online access. There is nothing so important on line that can't wait until I get home. If travelling, there are lots of free online access points at libraries, at least here in Canada.

While I do appreciate the ability to update my various stock prices whenever I want, automatically, it would not be the end of the world as I know it if I had to do this manually. I simply would only do it a LOT less frequently, e.g. maybe monthly. I don't really need to know my net worth, to the penny, every day! BTW, my total cell phone bill for my wife and I is always less than $10 a month. I cringe when I hear that many others have a family cell bill in the HUNDREDS EVERY MONTH.

David B.

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Sharx35

A dose reality here.

Some folks are upset about Intuit jettisoning the produc, like they owe us anything. So am I. But Intuit is a publically traded business, and if they aren't having a suitable return on their investment AS THEY DEEM (not some folks claiming they know what the business is internally), they're perfectly (and in fact, a good business decision) in their rights to sell and move on. They're not a charity.

And it's not just a question of lowering the price until they get a buyer. At a certain point, better to take the tax write off if they can't find a profitable buyer. So don't count on a purchase. HP, IBM,DELL, etc. ALL got out of the PC business (or reorganized radically) because of the desktop's drop as the home computing platform. I have 4 kids in 20s and 30s, and wife, NONE of them use a PC anymore.

And for years I've been hearing people ask questions about "how long can I wait before I HAVE to buy new version to do OSU", like they're gaming the system. I've always maintained that if we all bought the product every year, maybe this wouldn't have happened. (And our friend in Canada kept saying how stupid we were to do this...sigh.)

As they say,"Just sayin'".

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Andrew

A dose reality here.

Some folks are upset about Intuit jettisoning the produc, like they owe us anything. So am I. But Intuit is a publically traded business, and if they aren't having a suitable return on their investment AS THEY DEEM (not some folks claiming they know what the business is internally), they're perfectly (and in fact, a good business decision) in their rights to sell and move on. They're not a charity.

And it's not just a question of lowering the price until they get a buyer. At a certain point, better to take the tax write off if they can't find a profitable buyer. So don't count on a purchase. HP, IBM,DELL, etc. ALL got out of the PC business (or reorganized radically) because of the desktop's drop as the home computing platform. I have 4 kids in 20s and 30s, and wife, NONE of them use a PC anymore.

And for years I've been hearing people ask questions about "how long can I wait before I HAVE to buy new version to do OSU", like they're gaming the system. I've always maintained that if we all bought the product every year, maybe this wouldn't have happened. (And our friend in Canada kept saying how stupid we were to do this...sigh.)

As they say,"Just sayin'".

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Sharx35

So what are we going to use in place of Quicken? My needs are simple: pay bills and keep track of tax-related stuff.

I wonder if bank on-line bill paying services do both.

Reply to
Cy Burnot

There's no compelling reason that tracking spending/account balances and bill payment need be integrated in the same app other than convenience. I refuse to pay Quicken/Checkfree or anyone else for a billpay service my bank provides for free through a web interface. The payments still get downloaded into Quicken when they clear. Same thing applies for those who like pull transactions from the biller.

Nothing is going to make Quicken go dark at any time in the forseeable future. The odds are slightly less optimistic for OSU, but who knows what the banks will decide about maintaining that feature.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Although I do find it curious that despite the Inuit executive being quoted that there would be a QD2016, it isn't available yet. QD 2015 was released in September.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Curious? I wouldn't be surprised if, in preparation for selling Quicken, Intuit has already reduced the size of their programming staff and that's why 2016 isn't ready yet.

Reply to
Ken Blake, MVP

Can you assign a tax category with a bank's bill pay?

Reply to
Cy Burnot

Yes, when it gets downloaded as a transaction into QD or when you manually enter the transaction into QD.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Perhaps I wasn't clear.

Suppose I want to pay a credit card bill that includes some prescriptions, a couple of medical co-pays and a few other deductible items.

When I log in to my bank's bill pay, am I able to specify those as deductible items then and there, or do I have to wait until the payment clears, download a bank transaction file into Quicken, find that bill and then edit the credit card entry to identify the deductions?

Thanks.

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Cy Burnot

I don't know what you want to do, but I'll tell you what I do:

As each transaction is charged to my credit card, I enter it into Quicken, to the credit card account, with the appropriate category. This is way before the bill appears.

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Ken Blake, MVP

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