Quicken Deluxe 2005 "Sunset"

sunset means discontinuation of online services such as bank transaction downloads and quote updates. It was explained on quicken.com somewhere and explained in this group many times.

You probably meant web connect from a bank's web-site (direct connect is the path from Qkn and that is what's being discontinued).

For as long as an FI continues to offer web connect for a version of Qkn then it should work okay. At some point FIs stop supporting a version but that's their choice.

Intuit servers are "involved" with Web Connect, and Web Connect will be discontinued along with Direct Connect.

I just did a web connect d/l of a cc and the site offered Q2004 and above and my Q06 accepted it w/o complaint. Of course I won't know until next year what will happen when 06 is sunsetted. I also connect to sites that simply offer Quicken support - no minimum version is specified.

Not sure I understand your point: there is nothing contradictory to what I posted previously.

Restrictions on Web Connect downloads will not come from the financial institutions, they will come from Intuit.

You don't even have to own Quicken to download Web Connect data (a QFX file) to your pc.

But if you want to get that downloaded data into Quicken, you need to have a version of Quicken that has not been sunsetted. Before Quicken will "import" Web Connect data, it must verify the financial institution, and Quicken does that via Intuit servers, and those servers will not verify a financial institution if the Quicken version making the request has been sunsetted.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:fpsd1j$l3m$ snipped-for-privacy@aioe.org:

That's interesting, John. One should be able to verify that by downloading the QFX file, pulling the ethernet cable and then trying to import into Quicken. Or maybe that happens while you download the QFX?

Yup, you can prove it that way.

You don't necessarily have to manually initiate an "import"; you can get a dialog at the tail end of the download that asks if you want to "Save" fhe download (as a QFX file) or "Open" it. If you "open" it, Quicken will verify the fi then; if you Save the download and later import it, Quicken will verify at that time.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:fpsm4s$mdu$ snipped-for-privacy@aioe.org:

Thanks, John!

My Quicken ****2002**** was only just sunsetted on 31 December 2007.

I wasn't trying to make a point beyond noting what my experiences were and commented that it would be interesting to see how that compared when my Q06 was sunsetted next year (I've been presuming that it is scheduled for '09).

I'm certainly not conversant with Intuit/FI relationships and so wouldn't have any basis to remark upon what Quicken 2006 will do in the future insofar as using downloaded web connect files is concerned. I find your comment on the ethernet cable effect interesting - that's an experiment I'll have to conduct someday.

Thx. Geo. S.

Which is why I continue to use Quicken 2001. My bank still offers QIF, but not QFX.