My Windows “Money”, which cost me nothing, does most of what Quicken does and the “Money” cost me nothing.

My primary reason for buying this product ($99.95) was to get all of my accounts on one page. I can’t do that because Quicken will not accept half of my financial institutions. I am returning this software to Quicken for my money back…I hope.

I took this item back to Best Buy but they wouldn’t return my money because the item had been opened!!! (They also treated me like a piece of doggy doodle) How would I know it didn’t work unless I opened it? I smell a rat there. I am going to go thru the long drawn out complaint process against Best Buy which will probably avail me nothing except the satisfaction that I wasn’t an easy mark one more time.

I got had by Best buy several years ago when I bought a two thousand computer from them, paid them to set the computer up properly, which they didn’t do resulting in over $800.00 in phone charges which the smarmy manager refused to consider helping me get some relief for even though it was their fault and I had loads of evidence to prove it. The problem with being “had” by a big company is that they have all the power and I have none…and they know it.

That’s really infuriating.

I don’t care if they track investments. (I only mentioned those because Mint does, but doesn’t work with mine.) I just want them to go back to the online version they had before they messed it up. They changed the interface and it was all for the worse.

I actually have the desktop version, but I liked the online one (before the change) better. What I really want is a quick check of my overall financial picture, not an in depth analysis tool.

I get a pop-up in Quicken saying that online download of transactions and price updates will cease in April 2009.

So, I look at Quicken 2009. It suggests that it *might* run on Windows 2000. I send a support question to Quicken as a direct question: will it or won’t it run correctly with all functions on Windows 2000. The answer came back an unequivocal NO.

Since I’ve converted to Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 at this writing) and the only Windows hosted application I’m still using is Quicken, that means I need to find something to replace Quicken.

I’m investigating GnuCash right now. The initial account set up took a while but now that it’s up, it’s working well enough.

I’d like to solicit suggestions from this thread on what else is available. My requirements are simple: either Windows 2000 or Linux hosted; QFX either direct or via download capability; investment tracking; stock and mutual fund price updates via QFX. — Thanks in advance for your help

I tried Mint, but it doesn’t support one of my primary accounts (or one of my investment accounts, or one of my loans). I like the layout and feel of Mint better, and I really like the ability to split transactions. However, another problem I had was that when I classified a negative transaction (say a rebate) to a category, it isn’t subtracted out when viewing charts of your expenses, so it looks like you spent more than you actually did.

Anyway, I’m still looking for the right product. Or maybe I’ll just develop it myself. (If only I had the time…)

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Mint=kinda nice and free,

Quicken online=Fair, no reports or exports, uggh

Yodlee=very nice, kinda plain, greatest connectivity.

Buxfer=could be great someday, not yet there, free.

Seems someone could fix up a website hit eliminating the shortcomings of these finance sites. Quicken did in quicken DOS and is still riding the idea.

They have been adding tracking investments now which really is not a priority for me on a mobile platform. Still waiting on useful features like tracking my cash withdrawls to catergorize the money spent more effectively.

Any company small enough to rely on Quickbooks is small enough to use Open Office.

It’s not that OO can’t read the *.doc file that Quickbooks makes … QB looks for MS-Word and, not finding it, refuses to create the file at all.

That’s a BIG minus in my book. I’m using QB now, but when I out grow it I won’t be looking to upgrade it.

Dear Mark .,

Thank you for contacting Quicken Customer Care.

try to download transactions again in a brand new file because there could be possibility of the damage in the file

The problem I see with this answer is that any manual changes I made to entries after they were downloaded — categories, names, etc — would be lost if I downloaded them into a brand new file. Not a big problem now, but what if this happened after a lot of data & changes had been entered?

I really wish it worked better, because when it does work, it’s really just about good enough for what I want to do. You can track your ongoing credit card purchases in one place to keep your upcoming balance in line, you can enter future transactions to get a look down the road at your cash flow, and the charts present a pretty clear picture of your spending. I could probably live with the bugs until they are fixed, but I’ve received no assurance from Quicken that the check number issue will be fixed, though they say they have referred it up the chain of command. The inability to export my data is probably the dealbreaker though.

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