Of course, the main thing I needed to get working was downloading transactions from my banks, so I set out to do that. The UI of MoneyDance is very clean and the application was snappy as hell. A quick check of the balances between Quicken and MoneyDance seemed to indicate the import worked well. So, I downloaded the demo and easily imported my Quicken accounts/data. While looking through the pages on Quicken 2013 I saw many unhappy people and references to something called MoneyDance. The application has a different accounting style than I’m used to and the import of my Quicken data didn’t go well. Three years ago I looked seriously at GNU Cash. I immediately started looking for alternatives. Yesterday I got the dreaded Quicken dialog that reminded me that in April 2013 I would not be able to download transactions from my banks. Quicken stopped having both of those properties a long time ago. Being a software developer myself, I love paying for something that I like to use and has value. Every release of Quicken changed the UI so that it took weeks or months to get used to the new version. ![]() ![]() I don’t mind paying for upgrades, but when the upgrades are buggy as hell and have no other purpose than change itself, then I really hate paying for an upgrade. ![]() Intuit decided to start forcing people to upgrade every 3 years by turning off downloading transactions from your bank. The last 10 years being an Intuit customer has been a test of patience, to put it mildly. UPDATE : the picture at the right is of a mailer I received yesterday in the mail.
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