Why does Quicken SUCK???

[Broohaha]

Everybody raves about this POS program. Well I install it and try to link my two bank accounts and four credit cards to it and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM works. Sure, I can download the .qifs but I want it automatically updated into my system, dammit.........

in case anybody is interested or has experiece with the following POS financial institutions:

POS banks
chevy chase bank
commerce bank (of ny,nj and pa)

POS credit cards
MBNA
Bank of America
GM Card
Amazon.com Card

 

[loup garou]

Quickbooks is even worse. :|

 

[Ameesh]

get Microsoft Money, people always end up realizing after much heartache that MS is best

*flamesuit on*

 

[Broohaha]

AAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!! the one bank that DOES work requires me to print out and fill out (with a pen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111) a two page document and mail it in and then wait for a fscking pin. what is this, the stone age?!?! i wants my quicken NOW, dammit!

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get Microsoft Money, people always end up realizing after much heartache that MS is best

*flamesuit on*

ur only saying that bc u work for M$

 

[Broohaha]

you know wha ti just realized? quicken isnt QUICK AT ALL!!!!!!!1111111111111111

<--gone stark raving mad

 

[Sundog]

Interesting...I have been having a problem recently. I can reconcile a specific acct. every month. Then after several months I will run a validation....then that acct. will show a discrepancy from like back in March. Delete all the reconciles back to March, rereconcile monthly again, run validate...same damn error. :| The smart reconcile feature they have sucks!:|

 

[shekondar]

Originally posted by: Sundog
Interesting...I have been having a problem recently. I can reconcile a specific acct. every month. Then after several months I will run a validation....then that acct. will show a discrepancy from like back in March. Delete all the reconciles back to March, rereconcile monthly again, run validate...same damn error. :| The smart reconcile feature they have sucks!:|

Same thing happened to me... was using it for a couple of years with no problems, then all of a sudden a discrepancy shows up. Funny thing is, it's the exact amount of a transaction about a year and a half ago. Now it's totally fscked up... Every version of Quicken I've ever used has had the same problem... apparently they can't write code worth sh!t.

I'd use M$ Money, if I could only get it to quit asking me if I want to schedule EVERY FSCKING THING as a scheduled transaction!:|
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[dpm]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get Microsoft Money, people always end up realizing after much heartache that MS is best *flamesuit on*

What difference will that make in downloading statements?
I thought the whole point of online accounts and financial management programmes was that the two would mesh together and make sorting out your finances so easy.... now I find that the only bank I use that *claimed* it was compatible with Quicken (it never did work properly) has given up pretending. :|

 

[Goosemaster]

I use cash.

 

[FuZoR]

MS money here!!

Auto download HSBC Checking/Savings
but my citi CC doesnt have to manually go to website and download :-(

 

[Conky]

Thanks for the MS Money tip.

I have an elderly computer client who has been insisting on using a warezed copy of Managing Your Money on her new system I installed. She would buy the program but due to the fact that it came out ten years ago and stopped being supported 8 years ago and is no longer sold ANYWHERE leaves me in a bind. We bought and installed Quicken for her to manage her estate info but she hates it. I am gonna try this MS Money program and maybe I can finally get the MYM monkey off my back.

 

[bunker]

I gave up on trying to use quicken online. I just enter everything and manually reconcile with my statements. Works well for me that way and I still get the budgeting/reporting features which is what I wanted it for anyway.

 

[waggy]

odd. we have been using qucken for years. never had ap roblem. its greatr for the 4 accounts we have.

granted we have never used online stuff but thats because my bank (small local one) is not on the list.

 

[Schadenfroh]

launder all the way

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: FuZioN
MS money here!!

Auto download HSBC Checking/Savings
but my citi CC doesnt have to manually go to website and download :-(

Same thing here. Running MS Money Standard (came with lappy) with my HSBC checking. No complaints at all.