I have used Quicken for my finances since 1988. After almost 30 years of successful use, now after “upgrading” to Quicken Deluxe 2015, it has rendered itself unusable. I have to find another product. Let me explain:
Since the upgrade, every time I want to log into Quicken, it tells me it needs to make sure it’s me, and I have to go to my email, receive a code that I then have to type in before I can get in. When it used to take 5 seconds to log into Quicken, it now takes a minute. This is extremely annoying.
I learned that it’s using the Intuit ID for login, so you have to be connected to the Internet. This is annoying too, since I am not always online when I need to access my information.
I learned that there is no way to disable the “secure login option.”
After a half hour on the phone with some “very nice lady” somewhere in India, I ended up frustrated, went to their website and canceled my account. I am not downloading any account information from banks anyway, so why do I need to be online? After that, I was able to login ok, for a couple of weeks.
Now, it’s not letting me in at all. In order to get to my information, I have to literally turn off my Internet connection, then log in, and now it allows me to work locally, the way I have been using the product for the last 28 years. This is doubly annoying, since I can’t go online to look at my accounts with banks, when I have to be offline with Quicken.
Quicken has literally created a situation where it simply does not work anymore.
After 28 years, I am now looking for another product to do my finance tracking.
Recommendations anyone?
Reblogged this on Norbert Haupt and commented:
Awww, frustrating product.
We use Xero and like it a lot 🙂 https://www.xero.com/us/
I have been using Quicken since 19879 or 1990 and this morning was the final straw. 45 minutes later and I still cannot log into the software. In the last 36 months, quicken has gone from a fantastic product to the bane of my existence. I hate it!
With many calls to their support group, patiently working through their “basic” questions, I was eventually able to make it work. I can now log in without endless failures with connections, etc. But it took a lot of work and patience. Recently it asks me about upgrading. HELL NO. I see no point. What good could upgrading possibly do? Except make it not work again.
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