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I only read the newsgroup once in a while. Here's my reaction.
Like you, I happily used Quicken for years without using any on-line update stuff. But I've tried it the last year or so and I like it. Most of my transactions are credit card - I use my card to pay for almost everything - so the auto downloads save me a lot of manual entry. I still keep the receipts and check the ones that don't look right, but basically banks don't make mistakes.
My primary bank, however, does not offer much Quicken functionality, so all my check writing transactions I tend to enter by hand.
I do not use any pay-service to do check less electronic payments for me. Most of my regular creditors offer automatic electronic transfer, so I let them go fetch their own money straight from my bank. Again, I have never had an electric company overcharge me, or received an electric bill I did not wish to pay promptly, so I get myself out of the loop entirely and authorize the utility to fetch the money . This greatly simplifies things for me.
I also have a family member who struggles to find the time to keep track of their own finances. I do have time, so I do a lot of it for them. It helps that most of their accounts name me as a co-owner, and that in any case I know the userIDs and PassWords to access the accounts.
You got a lot of attitude from at least one of the posters on the board
- ignore him.
Maybe your daughter will just let you be her bookkeeper? You have the time and the technical inclination, and she does not. It really isn't possible to automate all of this - some of the payments can be automated, but Quicken cannot run itself.
best, Doug