Intuit ships Quicken 2004 for the Mac
updated 09:00 am EDT, Wed August 20, 2003
Intuit today announced the availability of for Mac, adding features to more easily monitor an entire portfolio, integration with Apple's iCal, and enhancements to the Quicken Bill Pay service, as well as an Emergency Records Organizer to track essential records in one central location. The popular personal financial information management application runs on Mac OS 9/X and will be available for $70 with a $20 rebate for previous Quicken users (and an additional $10 instant online rebate).
Through the updated investment portfolio, customers can monitor all their investments in one place and easily view their net worth with very little effort. Customers can also download detailed quotes, asset classes and the Morningstar Rating of their funds and receive at-a-glance insight into the performance of their investments through 25 new performance indicators, new news alerts, automatic retrieval of the asset class and industry sector for stocks and funds, and categorization the portfolio to assist the customer in rebalancing.
"Our research shows that more than 90 percent of our customers own investments and the majority keep track of those investments using Quicken," said Aruna Harder, Quicken product manager. "We provide the tools to help them understand how their investments are doing in a quick and painless manner."
Keeping up with the market and staying in control of a portfolio can be difficult for any investor.
Quicken 2004 can also track important financial events in a single combined calendar with their personal and business activities, while its Emergency Records Organizer enables customers to store the essential details and location of important documents such as insurance papers, financial accounts, wills, and medical records.
Quicken sucks
08/20, 09:12am reply
its one of those c*** ported apps and done badly
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Will it work with Safari?
08/20, 10:10am reply
...for downloads so that I can have a single instead of perhaps 5 browsers in order to use the microsoft wide web?
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Support for multiple....
08/20, 10:52am reply
currencies yet ?
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Other app
08/20, 11:36am reply
Ok, it's established that Quicken does least effort possible to get these releases out. However, I need a digital checkbook. So, do I keep using this or is there something better out there?
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MoneyDance
08/20, 12:03pm reply
Well, I just bought Moneydance and it seems a lot better than when it first came out. It read a quicken file (qif) with about 10 years of data and got most things in pretty good. For some reason, some of my split transactions recorded 401K transactions twice. Not a big deal. Sorted by that field and deleted to duplicates. Had everything cleaned up in about 20 minutes.
Also connects to some banks and even Discover Card for downloading statements.
You can download and try first (100 transaction limit?)
Not perfect, but no major problems in about 3 weeks of use.
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Support for new banks
08/20, 01:09pm reply
Is there support for new financial institutions? I bank with State Farm Bank and it is not supported on Mac (only Windows version of Quicken). I don't understand the logic. Why don't they make it connection layer identical?
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The real question is...
08/20, 01:44pm reply
where the h*** is the multi-currency support ?
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This story is incorrect!
08/20, 01:55pm reply
You don't get an additional $20 off when you buy from Intuit. Here is what their website says:
Prior owners of Quicken products are eligible for a $20 mail-in rebate with the purchase of Quicken 2004 Deluxe, Quicken 2004 Premier, Quicken 2004 Premier Home & Business, or Quicken 2004 for Mac(Macintosh) at a participating retailer. The $20 Upgrader is not available on purchases made directly from Intuit. Customers purchasing direct from Intuit are eligible for a $10 instant rebate, you can purchase Quicken 2004 today at www.shopintuit.com.
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Re: Quicken sucks
08/20, 04:24pm reply
its one of those c*** ported apps and done badly
Sorry, you are completely wrong!!!! Its not a ported app. If it was ported, it would have more features and functions, and wouldn't have some of the bugs Quicken Mac has (I bought 100 shares of Apple stock a few months ago at $18. It went up to $20. Now, that should be a $200 gain and something like a 12% gain. But while the %gain number in the portfolio was correct, the ROI - return on investment - showed a completely different number, when they should be identical. Oh, and the Net Worth graphs shows me having $25000 more money then the Net Worth reports!).
Rather than a port, this is more of a "kind of copy" of the Windows version, where they don't bother with some features, and certainly don't fix the bugs from previous versions. Its sort of like Word.
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Re: support for new banks
08/20, 05:11pm reply
I don't understand the logic. Why don't they make it connection layer identical?
The way I understand it is that its the banks who are responsible for the connections, not Quicken. So, it depends on the bank and how they code the connection that determines whether Macs can connect. My guess is that State Farm (and Ameritrade, which also only connects via Windows) uses some ActiveX control or what-not to communicate with Quicken and their servers, and since they wonderfully chose the Windows-only way, there ain't much Intuit can do about it.
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