Having used Quicken for longer than I’ve been married, it’s a shame to see my long-term relationship with the program start to deteriorate.
Before the advent of online platforms like Mint.com (now owned by the makers of Quicken), personal finance management software was limited to a handful of options: Excel, Money, or Quicken. Even after more choices emerged, the capabilities of these new program were mediocre compared to those offered by Quicken.
Since I’d established a history with Quicken and was dubious of entrusting ALL of my financial information to any one online service, I stuck with what I knew.
Aggregation & Automation make money management easy and effective. Using Quicken’s “One-Step Update”, a single click downloads your financial transactions from all your institutions.
Because Quicken did all of the grunt work, more time could be dedicated to: scrutinizing inflows and outflows, creating budgeting plans or savings goals, reviewing investment performance, and so on.
But… it seems once flaws are noticed, more begin to emerge.