Quicken and Vanguard

The new brokerage accounts are not being accessed by Quicken and currently one can only download a data file direct from the web site.

Yes, apparently Vanguard broke the OSU connection protocols and now OSU no longer works. At least they've admitted its their issue.

Since I am not a frequent trader, I am not going to worry about trying to download an OFX file (or whatever the workaround is) given that duplicates might occur and the validation of my files will be a royal PITA when the real fix occurs. I'll live with this for a bit.

Issue still unresolved. But as of yesterday, there was a pop-up on when starting Q acknowledging that Vanguard owns this issue and it is being worked on. Seems like Vanguard was relying on a 3rd party to provide the connection services. I don't know if every Q user received the pop up, or only those that Q knows have accounts at Vanguard.

Yes, I received that pop-up also. I do have a Vanguard brokerage account that I opened a few months ago.

Hopefully they'll be able to get it fixed soon. I was beginning to wonder if they had just decided to stop offering a Direct Connect connection, but based on what you're saying, thankfully that's not the case.

I have very few transactions, so I've just been entering them manually for now.

The Vanguard Direct Connect connection is now working again. I downloaded successfully this morning to my brokerage account. Good to see!

I see that others have reported the same thing in the Quicken Community forum.

Yes indeed! There certainly was a LOT of chatter on this one. I think that the golden lining might be that Vanguard might realize how many people rely on Quicken for the financial management and not to f**k it up again like they apparently did. (Yes, a third party might have been to blame, but Vanguard should have had testing after they had upgraded that company's connection software).