Quicken stinks

Feb 14, 2005 2 Replies

I bought MS Money a year ago, and was thoroughly disgusted with it for numerous reasons. I'd upgraded from an old version of Money which worked very well, was simple to use and figure out, and kept track of my business expenses and income for 19 years.



So being completely turned off to MS, I bought Quicken a couple weeks ago, and amazingly, I think it's worse than Money.



Here is my current problem: I have an "Unpaid Invoices" account, and a "Paid Invoices" account. When I attempt to enter a customer payment, I'm supposed to select "Deposit to" from a drop down box, BUT IT IS BLANK, and I cannot type anything into it. How dumb is this? No matter what I do, I cannot enter any payments because it won't let me go any farther. It keeps saying "This field cannot be left blank."



This whole program is way more complicated than I need. Does ANYONE still make just a simple program that will track income and expenses without all the frills, reminders, and other annoying, unwanted things?


Take a look at MoneyDance at

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You may not like it, but then again you may. You also may want to check out AceMoney.

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Victor Roberts on Mon, 14 Feb 2005

23:56:01 GMT typed in alt.comp.software.financial.quicken the following:

An alternative, if all you want to do is budget your money (where you spent it, where it came from, how much do you have available for groceries, gasoline, etc, etc.) is You Need A Budget. That is all it does, manage your budget. You can download and import transactions to reconcile your accounts, which is cool.

The premise is that Every Dollar Has a Job. You begin by allocating how your money is to be spent (Food, Rent, Utilities, etc). You assign expenditures to those categories, and it lets you know how much money you have left. An electronic version of the envelope system.

It does what I want Quicken to do, plus the budgeted amount is "right there" so I don't have to figure out if I've overspent. Again.

tschus pyotr

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