NOTE: NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. CAN NOT BE USED TO EXTEND SUBSCRIPTION
For existing subscribers of Quicken, some retailers (Newegg, Walmart) are offering promotions for 1-year subscription keys. Here's Newegg breakdown (www.newegg.com/p/N82E16832624019)
Business Quicken Class @ Newegg [1YR Key] = $77.93 - $14.94 (SAVNW2 promo code)
Premier Quicken Classic @ Newegg [1YR Key] = $55.35 - $10.36 (SAVNW2 promo code)
Deluxe Quicken Classic @ Newegg [1YR Key] = $41.93 - $4.94 (SAVNW2 promo code)
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expiredRick1953 posted Jan 26, 2025 12:43 PM
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Good suggestion on just making a new account!
I'm frugal as can be and my wife hates me but you sometimes do not save anything being cheap if the cost in work, time and labor far outweighs the money spent. We are talking the price of a couple coffees here what are you saving doing all that extra work? One transaction download gets me transaction from 25 or so accounts and is done in few minutes. Just going out and grabbing all the statements would take me hours and it would take days to then enter them. That only gets you to the point where you still need to reconcile and hope that you entered no errors.
How do we account for transfers between accounts, capital gains, 401Ks, payroll deductions etc. would all be other things to work out. That would take more spreadsheet magic and many more hours. Ideally I would be better off learning to program and create a piece of software dedicated to keeping track of finances. Alternatively I can give some few dollars a year to someone that has already done that for me.
What you propose might be possible with one or two accounts but most have much more to keep track of. I love spreadsheets and they have many uses but they are not accounting software.
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At the end of my licence term I then buy a new version as to not lose features. That was how it always worked with Quicken and most other user installed software . I do not have subscription I have a piece of software that runs on my computer and will work for a year before some features are disabled.
They backed off the true subscription model due to customer pushback. If you want to see what a true subscription is try Adobe and you will find you can do nothing unless you give rights to recurring credit card charges.
Quicken users in contrast are at the same place as before before everyone confusingly started calling it a subscription. It used to be two year licence and now is one. Back then I had get a new license every two years to keep the online stuff working and now I just do it yearly but the price for the one year license did drop by about half of what the two year license was.
They should actually maybe be applauded for that but if everybody keeps believing it a real subscription based on misinformation and loose imprecise talk I do see them maybe going that route as they will know their user base is confused or not bright enough to know the difference and we may end up only allowed a subscription choice.
At the end of my licence term I then buy a new version as to not lose features. That was how it always worked with Quicken and most other user installed software . I do not have subscription I have a piece of software that runs on my computer and will work for a year before some features are disabled.
They backed off the true subscription model due to customer pushback. If you want to see what a true subscription is try Adobe and you will find you can do nothing unless you give rights to recurring credit card charges.
Quicken users in contrast are at the same place as before before everyone confusingly started calling it a subscription. It used to be two year licence and now is one. Back then I had get a new license every two years to keep the online stuff working and now I just do it yearly but the price for the one year license did drop by about half of what the two year license was.
They should actually maybe be applauded for that but if everybody keeps believing it a real subscription based on misinformation and loose imprecise talk I do see them maybe going that route as they will know their user base is confused or not bright enough to know the difference and we may end up only allowed a subscription choice.
The retail software purchases used to last for 3 years (not two) before they had to be repurchased.
The current (even discounted) yearly cost is roughly the same as the 3-year retail product I used to purchase (in my experience, the price didn't drop on a per-year basis, but instead has tripled).
I have some basic to intermediate self taught ability and even created a fairly complex Excel spreadsheets to manage my business, mileage, invoicing, income and customers but that took maybe year of going at it all before I got is working good enough to use. Took many hours of much online and book reading. Many evening after work were consumed by it and I often went to bed still pondering some problem or dead end I ran into. Do note to do that I did not just have to learn Excel but had learn Access to do what I needed. Not only had to learn fairly complex spreadsheet formulas but database management and structures and how to bring that all together to display the data I needed
Take some courses in and purchase Excel and you may be able to get set up in year or so but you may find that you have made some mistakes or oversights that must be addressed and it may all have to be modified if you want to make any changes or upgrades. The stuff I created some years back in Excel will no longer open on most current database or spreadsheet software. Maybe Excel would still open it but that cost $149 for year of use and I am passing on that.
I stopped using quicken for anything in about 2014 since it was cumbersome, finicky, access to things kept changing, and more.
At this point, I'm willing to try using something like this again because I really just want a couple things. I want LOCAL storage on my machines, I want SPEND tracking and CATEGORIZING, and I must have syncing with third parties financial firms, but really only banking, and credit cards. I don't care about income sources or investment sources I have that all done elsewhere. It's really just importing, tracking, syncing and categorizing BUDGET related items.
Will this do THAT and will selecting something like "keep all my data stored locally" still allow SYNCING with connected third party source data company's (money center banks, credit card companies, etc) and bringing that data in but WITHOUT having to store it all in the cloud?
I guess to make it simpler maybe for this audience of users to answer would be to ask "can one store info/data ONLY locally on the installed app, but STILL BE ABLE TO SYNC with outside data sources"?
TIA
The retail software purchases used to last for 3 years (not two) before they had to be repurchased.
The current (even discounted) yearly cost is roughly the same as the 3-year retail product I used to purchase (in my experience, the price didn't drop on a per-year basis, but instead has tripled).
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I stopped using quicken for anything in about 2014 since it was cumbersome, finicky, access to things kept changing, and more.
At this point, I'm willing to try using something like this again because I really just want a couple things. I want LOCAL storage on my machines, I want SPEND tracking and CATEGORIZING, and I must have syncing with third parties financial firms, but really only banking, and credit cards. I don't care about income sources or investment sources I have that all done elsewhere. It's really just importing, tracking, syncing and categorizing BUDGET related items.
Will this do THAT and will selecting something like "keep all my data stored locally" still allow SYNCING with connected third party source data company's (money center banks, credit card companies, etc) and bringing that data in but WITHOUT having to store it all in the cloud?
I guess to make it simpler maybe for this audience of users to answer would be to ask "can one store info/data ONLY locally on the installed app, but STILL BE ABLE TO SYNC with outside data sources"?
TIA
To keep downloading you will have to keep your license current as it will stop downloading transactions if the license expires I hear it also throws up nag screens and such when it expires.
You will have to register the software with Quicken and create a Quicken account but that puts none of your data on the web. I don't believe i have ever had to go to the Quicken website through the web for any reason after that initial setup.
You do not even have to consider it a subscription and I have no idea why so many try so hard to confuse all this more than it needs be.
The way it is for me is I buy these one year retail software licenses and and enter a key. I did not sign up for any subscription and just purchased some software from Amazon that I registered like I do all other desktop software.
Do not sign up for monthly as subscription or web apps services and you will not have them. They do in the software offer and push such in the software at setup but they can be declined. Some services that will push your totals and such out to a app you can access on your phone but you can pass on all that if security is a concern.
Since I use this for our businesses as well (I don't need Quickbooks, but I use this to track both businesses as well as personal... works quite well). So, I'll likely just buy a renewal later... I have some time left, after all...
I started over with mac quicken last year and it is much faster. Missing some minor features compared to windows but overrall pretty satisfied with it. It is fast and and easy to use.
Since I use this for our businesses as well (I don't need Quickbooks, but I use this to track both businesses as well as personal... works quite well). So, I'll likely just buy a renewal later... I have some time left, after all...
At the end of my licence term I then buy a new version as to not lose features. That was how it always worked with Quicken and most other user installed software . I do not have subscription I have a piece of software that runs on my computer and will work for a year before some features are disabled.
They backed off the true subscription model due to customer pushback. If you want to see what a true subscription is try Adobe and you will find you can do nothing unless you give rights to recurring credit card charges.
Quicken users in contrast are at the same place as before before everyone confusingly started calling it a subscription. It used to be two year licence and now is one. Back then I had get a new license every two years to keep the online stuff working and now I just do it yearly but the price for the one year license did drop by about half of what the two year license was.
They should actually maybe be applauded for that but if everybody keeps believing it a real subscription based on misinformation and loose imprecise talk I do see them maybe going that route as they will know their user base is confused or not bright enough to know the difference and we may end up only allowed a subscription choice.
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