Quicken 2018

Per the End User License Agreement, which you agree to when you install Q, you're allowed to install it on up to 3 personally owned computers.

BUT NOTE, that the QWin and QMac databases/files aren't interchangeable. You can convert from QWin to QMac ... but the QMac to QWin conversion has been broken for years.

Has anyone tried the Quicken/Mac 2018 product? I have been using Quicken Premier for longer than I care to admit. I would really like to ditch Microsoft Windows if I could.

Per the End User License Agreement, which you agree to when you install Q, you're allowed to install it on up to 3 personally owned computers.

BUT NOTE, that the QWin and QMac databases/files aren't interchangeable. You can convert from QWin to QMac ... but the QMac to QWin conversion has been broken for years.

The license agreement for Quicken 2018 is supposedly embedded within the "Terms of Use" document:

Could that mean you would have to have separate subscription for each computer in your home that you install 2018 on? That would really suck

My interpretation is that we may install the Quicken 2018 program on as many computers as we'd like but. to access the Online Services, we must register the program using a Quicken ID with an active subscription.

I'm still trying to determine if we must associate a Quicken ID with an active subscription with our data files to access the Online Services. This is not an issue when there is only one user in a household (or there is sufficient trust between the users to share a common Quicken ID and the other users are willing to give up some of the embedded functionality associiated with the Quicken ID (for example, credit scrore report)). This issue could mean some customers will need to purchase and maintain multiple subscriptions to acheive equivalence with prior versions. Note: In prior versions, we could use distinct Quicken IDs in our data files. In fact, we were supposed to use distinct Intuit IDs in our data files.

I have confirmed that we must associate a Quicken ID with an active subscription with our data files to access the Online Services.

Essentially, when we use Quicken we are logged in with the Quicken ID associated with the data file we open. As I stated earlier, this will mean that some customers will need to purchase additional subscriptions.

I have found that if I upgrade a data file from Quicken 2016 with a Quicken ID that does not have a subscription to Quicken 2018, the data file is able to access the Online Services. I specifically tested One Step Update (Direct Connect and Quotes) and Web Connect import.

For those interested, I don't know if the 2018 data file format is officially backward compatible with Quicken 2016 but I am able to open the data files that have been modified with 2018 with Quicken 2016. Note:  The usual backup folder Quicken creates when the data file format changes was not created.