Deactivating the account doesn't work either. Repairing the account in Tools doesn't work.
If Q2018 decides that it can't connect to a previously working account, there is NO WAY to fix it. Had all my accounts connected along with any online billing account with 90 minutes. With Mint you can connect and draw on any checking account at any bank to pay any bill. I was bound to Bank of America, a company I have an attitude about, because they had Direct Connect to Quicken. Mint now has bill pay and it works slick.
I spent the afternoon after writing this and being fired up, organizing my accounts in Mint. Hope that works as that's why I bought this version. I haven't tried the rental property module yet but plan on doing so before tax filing time. BTW, I have the Home, Business and Rental Property version. Other reviewers that have granted 4 and 5 stars to this program must be Quicken employees or simply don't use it or rely on it heavily like I do. This means no account downloads so no choice but to upgrade. FYI the only reason I bought this 'subscription' is because I was using Q2015 and Quicken stops supporting their programs after three years. If I could find a program, in the cloud or desktop that does bill pay, interfaces with my online bank, brokerage and credit card accounts and reliably reports on all, I would change in a heartbeat. But none of these other bugs have been fixed. I just checked some of the known issues above and see that the Projected Balance is now working. My brother uses Q2017 and doesn't see any of these issues. So we are stuck with a buggy program that hasn't improved even though Quicken separated from Intuit. Then back to buggy Quicken.Īlso, why isn't this in the cloud? I've tried Mint but it doesn't have nearly the features Quicken has but I need to revisit that. I used MS Money for a time until MS stupidly removed support for it. It is also a shame that it is such a mess. It is a shame that Quicken is the only program out there that allows money management to the degree it was designed to. Manually accessing the same account web site shows no issues with logging in. If it runs into an error on downloading account info, you cannot fix it without crashing the program. I used to rely on this graph but if bills are missing, it is not accurate.ħ. The Projected Balance graph goes out 90 days and then drops to zero. The calendars in Bill Pay don't show more than 90 days no matter what I do.Ħ. I have one account, home mortgage, that when I try to open it, it crashes the program.ĥ. I had to make a spreadsheet to make sure I paid my bills on time because I can't rely on Quicken anymore to help with that.
I'm trying to use the Manual bill pay method that they put back in as an afterthought. They try to get you to 'Link' accounts online but it doesn't work and if tried you will find that it takes minutes to update. The data transfer from my old version (Quicken 2015) didn't work correctly so my Bill Pay module is now missing many monthly bills. The program becomes 'unresponsive' and must be killed using Task Manager.Ģ.
The account download locks up periodically. Here's a sample of some of the bugs that come to mind readily:ġ. I was so hoping for improvement now that Quicken separated from Intuit. I've never used a program that has more bugs in it than Quicken 2018. I run Windows 7, arguably the most stable OS MS ever produced, and a Dell Latitude i5 laptop that is rock solid. The more I use Quicken 2018, the more bugs I find. I have been using Quicken since the DOS days. It seems like there must be something wrong with my user profile or administrative privileges. I am able to open the Quicken 2009 program and data file as a different administrative user on the same computer, but I am the primary computer user and have administrative privileges. This is usually in the folder C:/Program Files/Quicken/Data (the 'C:/' is the letter assigned to hard drives in most computers). You can find your Quicken data file on your hard drive by going through Windows Explorer and navigating to the folder where Quicken saves its files.