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so who will buy Quicken and what is our future

So agree with your comment.

Quicken is a miserable program, tries to do way too much and charges way to o little; thus no support for a program that as it stands now needs it.

I use a debit card for virtually everything which means I get 150+/- transa ctions a month and manually entering them would be ridiculous. My lap top P C is going in the trash as soon as I finish migrating to my MAC which isn't going anywhere except with me. I wrote Eric Dunne some time ago before I heard they were selling the progr am and suggested Intuit needed to drop either Quicken or Quick Books, fix p roblems that have been around for years, break up the program into various separately purchased parts [effectively reducing the price for the download facility and hopefully raising overall revenue the program generates becau se there is no way in hell the program is anything but a huge money looser in its current form] and properly support the program.

I have never used a graph or budget facility. I could care-a-less about dow n loading stock prices [and I trade a lot]; if you are that interested in y our positions you are trading daily and using your brokers platform. Let t hose who want the other facilities pay separately for them. I just want a platform that downloads transactions and as long as the Payees can be alph abetized [Q only alphabetizes the first 14 characters of the Payee field an d BofA put 'Checkcard xxxx' where the 'x's are numerics for the day and mon th in front of the payee name on 30% of my transactions which creates a rea l pain in the ass when it comes to categorization] I don't care what else i t does.

BTW, somebody said there are no other programs that do Direct Connect downl oads; hard to believe but I haven't found any.

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spaldingec
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yone interested in buying a user base of 1MM+. Although we customers helpe d get them to where they are, they don't care. So after having been a loya l customer for 30 years, I am ++++ed. My database is extensive and i am ho pelessly married to the program. What now coach?

own the toilet some time ago.

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spaldingec

YOu mean everyone in your family has to keep every receipt and turn it over to you at the end of the day, you have to do this EVERY day? That wouldn't work for me...

} To me, entering the transactions is not the issue. I currently download } transactions for eleven accounts from six separate financial } institutions. If I had to logon to each institution's web site to see } what transactions had been posted, it would take me a lot more than 10 } minutes.

Same here: it takes a lot of time and is a PITA to log into every institution's website and do their quicken-compatible download. And if it doesn't *download* and I had to actually transfer the info manually that'd be a HUGE pain. I really like, and rely on, OSU. It takes about 90 seconds to update all 9 accounts and do it frequently enough that there's no question of what the charges were for, so I can just keep my receipts and such in a file and not have to fuss with the paperwork at all.

/Bernie\

Reply to
Bernie Cosell

Many people needlessly complicate their financial lives. There is NO need for 9

accounts. Period.

Reply to
Sharx35

My list of accounts for myself and spouse includes:

Investing accounts with stock broker (Regular and IRA) (2) Bank Accounts Checking 1, Savings 1 and Home Equity Loan 1 Credit Cards Mine 2, Spouse 2

Total of 9, all downloadable using OSU

Tell me which one of those accounts you think I could delete?

Reply to
njoracle

Thanks for the detail. I thought that they were all bank-type accounts. Naturally,

if I add up all the accounts of all types of my spouse and I, the total would also be

about 9. However, I still don't trust the accuracy of OSU--Over the years

I have seen dozens of problems from posters to this newsgroup.

Reply to
Sharx35

I update ten accounts using OSU, and I've done so for many years. In all those years, I've never had a single problem with it.

Reply to
Ken Blake

The only problem I ever head with OSU was when I was using Quicken Bill Pay. Lots have corrections had to be made. Since I switched to the bank Bill Pay, no more problems with OSU

Reply to
Arnie Goetchius

} On 2016-11-27 1:53 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: } > ... It takes about 90 } > seconds to update all 9 accounts and do it frequently enough that there's } > no question of what the charges were for, so I can just keep my receipts } > and such in a file and not have to fuss with the paperwork at all.

} Many people needlessly complicate their financial lives. There is NO } need for 9 } } accounts. Period.

My how offensively categorical. "no need"? I have three credit cards, for financial reasons I need to have two checking accounts and each comes with an attached savings account..

How many accounts do you, knower of all, think is the maximum one would "need"?

/Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell

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