Screenshot of Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business | |
Developer(s) | Quicken Inc. |
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Initial release | 1983; 36 years ago |
Stable release | |
Operating system | MS-DOS, Apple II, Windows, Classic Mac OS, macOS, iOS, Android |
Type | Accounting software |
License | Proprietary |
Website | quicken.com |
On Windows, and in the Quicken folder in your Documents folder on a Mac. Other Quicken Files. Quicken may store other files in the folder alongside your data, including files containing images and backup files associated with your data. Quicken Essentials for the Mac has trimmed many features out of the last 'full' version of Quicken 2007. Quicken 2007 for Lion is now available and perhaps may be a better choice for you.
Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Quicken Inc. (formerly part of Intuit, Inc.). On March 3, 2016, Intuit announced plans to sell Quicken to H.I.G. Capital; terms of the sale were not disclosed.[1]
Different (and incompatible) versions of Quicken run on Windows and Macintosh systems. Previous versions ran on DOS[2] and the Apple II.[3] There are several versions of Quicken for Windows, including Quicken Starter, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Rental Property Manager, Quicken Premier, and Quicken Home & Business, as well as Quicken for Mac.[4] Since 2008, each version has tended to have the release year in the product name (e.g., Quicken Basic 2008); before then, versions were numbered (e.g., Quicken 8 for DOS).
Quicken's major marketplace is North America, and most of the software sold is specialized for the United States and Canadian marketplace and user base. But the core functions can often be used more widely, regardless of country; and versions have been tailored for a variety of marketplaces, including Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Singapore.[5] Development of the UK-specific version of Quicken was stopped in January 2005, with sales and support ending shortly afterwards. There were also versions for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela.[5]
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Product description[edit]
The Quicken name typically refers to the core product offering of personal financial management software. The software includes financial planning activities that, historically, people may have done on paper – recording banking transactions, planning a budget and measuring progress against it, tracking investments and their prices and performance. Quicken has offered various editions, with varying prices – such as Basic which includes only those typical activities for someone with simple banking accounts, to Small Business for someone who also runs a business out of their home.
Quicken includes online services that allow users to retrieve transactions from various providers – such as their bank or credit card company. In most cases, online services and technical support are now supported for up to three years after the product's labeled version. e.g. Quicken 2018 will be supported until 2021.[6]
Related products[edit]
The Quicken brand has been extended to other personal and household areas, including healthcare. Quicken Health Expense Tracker is a free online tool for healthcare consumers enrolled in participating health plans. Users can 'manage and direct their health care finances, view and organize medical expenses, payments and service histories, and download and organize personal health claims data.'[7] The Quicken Medical Expense Manager is a desktop software tool for managing healthcare paperwork, tracking claims and payments, and consolidating related information.
Quicken Kids & Money was a Web-based program that aimed to help parents teach five- to eight-year-old children how to earn, spend, save, and share money. It is defunct.[8]
Other products are aimed at home business and seem to fit in a space for a less formal business than would be using QuickBooks. Quicken Rental Property Manager is a desktop software tool for managing rental properties; tracking tenants, expenses, and payments; and producing tax reports.
Software as a service[edit]
Quicken Online was a free, hosted solution (see software as a service) by Intuit. Intuit hosted all of the user's data, and provided patches and regularly upgraded the software automatically. Initially this was launched as a monthly paid subscription, and was a free service for over a year.
Intuit completed the acquisition of competitor Mint.com on November 2, 2009.[9] Quicken Online was discontinued on August 29, 2010, and users were encouraged to transition to Mint.com.
Beginning with Quicken 2018, Quicken is now a subscription service. Annual memberships can be purchased directly from Quicken.com and two-year subscriptions can be purchased through several retailers.[10]
Editions[edit]
The following are current (selling and supported) and retired (discontinued in both sales and support) versions of Quicken.
Current[edit]
Selling[edit]
- Quicken (Starter, Deluxe, Premier) 2019 for Windows[11]
- Quicken (Starter, Deluxe, Premier) 2019 for Mac[11]
- Quicken Home & Business 2019 for Windows[11]
Supported[edit]
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2017 - expires April 30, 2020
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2016 - expires April 30, 2019
- Quicken 2017 for Mac
- Quicken 2016 for Mac
- Quicken 2015 for Mac
Retired[edit]
Quicken 8 for DOS
(Dates retired are shown.) [12]
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2015 - April 30, 2018
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2014 - April 30, 2017
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2013 - April 30, 2016
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2012 - April 30, 2015
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business Edition 2011 - April 30, 2014
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business, Rental Property Manager 2010 - April 30, 2013
- Starter, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business 2009 - April 30, 2012
- Basic, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business 2008 - April 27, 2011
- Basic, Deluxe, Premier, Home & Business 2007 - April 30, 2010
- 2006 (Win) – April 30, 2009
- 2005 (Win) – April 30, 2008
- 2004 – April 30, 2007
- 2003 – April 25, 2006
- 2002 – April 19, 2005
- 2001 – April 19, 2005
- 2000 – May 18, 2004
- 98 and 99 – April 20, 2004
- Version 6 for Windows. 'Designed for Windows 95. Release 6.0. (c) 1996'
- Version 3 for Windows 3.1
- Quicken Essentials for Mac - April 30, 2015
- Quicken for Mac 2007 - retired October 2016[12]
- Quicken Mac 2007 OS X Lion compatible - retired October 2016[12]
- Quicken for Mac 2006
- Quicken for Mac 2005 - retired April 30, 2015
Criticism[edit]
Intuit stopped supporting its Quicken software in the United Kingdom in 2005, leaving many thousands of users with only partly functional software.[13]
In 2008 and 2009, Quicken users reported an unusually large number of software bugs for a commercial product.[14][15][16] A review of Quicken 2010 suggests that quality and user interface in that product year is dramatically improved.[17]
Existing Quicken Online users' data is not transferable/importable into Mint.com. This is in direct contrast to VP Aaron Patzer's promise, made on April 27, 2010: '[Until the merger with Mint.com is complete], you can continue to use Quicken Online just like you have. Once we have completed integrating all features to Mint, you will be able to easily transfer your information and data to ensure the smoothest transition possible.'[18]
History of Quicken and the absence of a common cross-platform file format[edit]
Quicken uses a database file structure. Since Quicken started on MS-DOS and the Apple II back in 1983 (before the Macintosh appeared in 1984), a database structure of choice[which?] did not exist for the Macintosh, nor has there really been a good common database structure developed that was cross-platform compatible created in the early days. So, when Mac development started, it had to take an independent path, and the DOS version transitioned to Windows.
Then when Mac OS X came out in 1999 (server) and 2001 (desktop), a new platform emerged. Apple developed backward compatibility for OS 9 (and predecessors), so Quicken for Mac development continued in an older platform database structure (PowerPC-based). Apple continued to support PowerPC-based apps (via Rosetta) on their Intel-based Macs in August 2009 (via Mac OS X 10.6). Rosetta was a temporary measure to support the eventual transition to exclusively Intel-based software (achieved in March 2011 with the release of OS X 10.7 (Lion)).
In 2009, faced with the eventual retirement of the PowerPC, it was deemed that the structure for Quicken for Mac (2007) was not suited for the direction of the Mac (intel) and OS X.[citation needed] Though they got Quicken for Mac 2007 to run on Intel in 2012,[19] Intuit decided to start from scratch and Quicken Essentials for Mac (QEM) was created in 2010.[20] Quicken 2015 for Mac, released in August 2014, and later versions for Mac are built on the Quicken Essentials for Mac foundation.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^John Rebeiro (March 3, 2016). 'Intuit selling Quicken to private equity firm HIG Capital'. pcworld.com. IDG Consumer & SMB. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ^'Quicken for DOS'. Intuit, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
- ^Field, Cynthia E. 'Quicken Offers Check Writing, Budget Analysis for Apple IIs'. InfoWorld. March 17, 1986: 35–36 – via Google Books.
- ^'All Quicken Products'. Intuit.
- ^ ab'International Versions of Quicken'. Intuit. 2011-06-20. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26.
- ^'Retirement of online services for older versions of Quicken'. Intuit/Quicken. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^An April 2007 article in the San Jose Business Journal.
- ^'Quicken Kids & Money Help'. Intuit Inc. Archived from the original on June 21, 2008.
- ^'Intuit Press Release - Intuit Completes Acquisition of Mint.com'. about.intuit.com. November 2, 2009.
- ^'Quicken 2018 Subscription Membership Pricing Explained'. Top Financial Tools. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
- ^ abc'Quicken 2018 - Which Version Do You Need? | Compare Quicken Products'. Top Financial Tools. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
- ^ abc'Currently Supported Quicken Products (Discontinuation Policy)'. Quicken. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
- ^Oates, John (2005-01-17). 'Intuit UK kills Quicken and TaxCalc'. The Register. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^nathanau (2008-01-27). 'Quicken Community - Quicken 2008 Bug List'. Quicken Community. Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ^thecreator (2008-08-28). 'Quicken Community - Quicken 2009 Bug List'. Quicken Community. Archived from the original on 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ^Elmblad, Shelley (2009-01-14). 'The Best and Worst Features in Quicken'. About.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ^Arar, Yardena (2009-10-29). 'Intuit Quicken Premier 2010'. Quicken Premier. Retrieved 2010-01-16.
- ^'Quicken Support - Quicken Community'. Intuit. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
- ^'Intuit releases Lion-compatible Quicken 2007'. CNET. 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
- ^Snell, Jason (2010-02-24). 'After delays and criticism, Intuit releases Quicken Essentials for Mac'. Macworld. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quicken&oldid=917421655'
Home›Quicken for Mac›File Conversion and Backup (Mac)edited December 2018 in File Conversion and Backup (Mac)
I purchased a new iMac and have installed Quicken 2018 on it. How do I move my files from my old Mac to the new one? Old Mac is also running the latest version of Quicken 2018. Tried the 'Move to' and starting a new file, but didn't work. Quicken didn't recognize the file on iCloud.
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- edited December 2018Hi @ Tony Way ,
You never move files. You create a Backup of your current Quicken Data File on the old Mac Computer, either to a Shared Folder that exists on the New Mac Computer or to an USB thumb drive.
Them simply Restore the Backup to the New Quicken Setup.
I run Windows, so can't give you, step by step.thecreator - User of Quicken Subscription R22.17 & Quicken 2017 HBRP R19.7
Vote: https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20022841#Comment_20022841
View: https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7859218/work-with-copies-of-your-actual-quicken-data-files/p1?new=1 - edited October 2018That doesn't work. It refuses to accept the new backup.
- edited May 2018
On both Macs, what version of Q is installed?That doesn't work. It refuses to accept the new backup.
And, step by step, how are you creating that backup on the old machine, and how are you attempting to restore on the new?
At what point is the backup 'refused' ... and what's the exact message produced?Q user since DOS version 5
Now running Quicken Windows Subscription, Home & Business
Retired 'Certified Information Systems Auditor' & Bank Audit VP - edited August 2018BTW, it is NOT necessary to use a backup to move a QMac data file. SImple drop and will suffice via network or USB key. Not sure why you are having trouble with iCloud though.
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- edited May 2018In reply to both above. Both Macs are running 'Quicken Deluxe 2018' Version 5.5.7.
I created a backup file to a USB stick. Also did a 'Move to' file to USB stick.
First tried creating a New file from the USB, while converting the file, this message came back:
The document 'daways money 2.quicken' could not be opened.
'daways money 2.quicken' was last opened on Friday, October 16, 2015 by Quicken 2015 2.0.3.
Choose Quicken > Check for Updates to make sure you have the latest version of Quicken. You are currently using version 5.5.7.
Then tried restoring from backup. Right after it asked are you sure you want to restore the backup file and I chose where I wanted it, got the same message as before. - edited May 2018
The 'backup' file was last opened in 2015? Doesn't that sound some alarm bells for you?In reply to both above. Both Macs are running 'Quicken Deluxe 2018' Version 5.5.7.
I created a backup file to a USB stick. Also did a 'Move to' file to USB stick.
First tried creating a New file from the USB, while converting the file, this message came back:
The document 'daways money 2.quicken' could not be opened.
'daways money 2.quicken' was last opened on Friday, October 16, 2015 by Quicken 2015 2.0.3.
Choose Quicken > Check for Updates to make sure you have the latest version of Quicken. You are currently using version 5.5.7.
Then tried restoring from backup. Right after it asked are you sure you want to restore the backup file and I chose where I wanted it, got the same message as before.
Seems like that's not the backup file you need...as Quicken will only be able to restore files with the same version and revision.
Suggest you look again for the Quicken Mac data file (the one LAST OPENED), select in Finder, Compress the file by right clicking on the file name and move to a USB drive, then copy from the USB to your new iMac in the Documents folder and then double click the zipped compressed file to uncompress it.
Open Quicken Mac 2018 and OPEN the file, pointing to your Documents folder and finding the correct Quicken Mac data file. - edited August 2018I did open the exact file I'm using with the latest update. But I get this stupid message. You will notice that the last of the message says I am currently using version 5.5.7, which is the latest version of 2018.
- edited May 2018
Yes, but your backup file you're trying to move states it hasn't been opened since 2015, was last opened using Quicken 2015 2.0.3.I did open the exact file I'm using with the latest update. But I get this stupid message. You will notice that the last of the message says I am currently using version 5.5.7, which is the latest version of 2018.
Quicken 2018 won't read Quicken 2015 data files.
You have the wrong file. - edited May 2018
Here's a simplified easier way to make sure you have the correct data file.I did open the exact file I'm using with the latest update. But I get this stupid message. You will notice that the last of the message says I am currently using version 5.5.7, which is the latest version of 2018.
In your old Mac, FILE > Save a Backup and save to your Desktop.
Highlight the backup data file on your Desktop (do not open it), right click and select Compress 'xxx.quicken2018'.
Move the compressed file to your USB.
With your new iMac, move the compressed file from your USB to the Documents folder. Double click on the compressed file.
Open Quicken 2018 on your iMac. Then File > Open and point Quicken to the Documents folder where you'll find your data file (DO NOT USE THE COMPRESSED FILE NAME). - edited May 2018I did open the exact file I'm using with the latest update. But I get this stupid message. You will notice that the last of the message says I am currently using version 5.5.7, which is the latest version of 2018.
Quicken 2018 won't read Quicken 2015 data files.
That is incorrect. It will...Just once you open it with QM2018, QM2015 will not be able to open it again.
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- edited May 2018
One note about Jerry's suggestion to put the Quicken data file in your Documents folder. You should either make sure you are NOT allowing your Documents folder to be stored on iCloud, or you should find a different location for your Quicken data file. (I prefer storing my stuff, including my Quicken data file, in my Documents folder; to make sure iCloud isn't involved, go to System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud drive Options > Un-check the box next to 'Desktop & Documents Folders'.)I did open the exact file I'm using with the latest update. But I get this stupid message. You will notice that the last of the message says I am currently using version 5.5.7, which is the latest version of 2018.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993 - edited May 2018Okay, turned off iCloud on both devices. On old Mac created a backup, zipped it and moved to USB. On new Mac loaded zipped file to Desktop and unzipped. Told Quicken to open the unzipped file and GOT THE SAME MESSAGE AS ABOVE.
I don't have a clue now. Guess I'll spend hours on the phone with support today. - edited August 2018Called Quicken Support. The solution was so simple, I was embarrassed.
All you have to do is open the file you want to move on the old computer, do
File > Export > Quicken Windows Transfer File (QXF)
Save it to either Dropbox or iCloud.
Go to the new computer, copy the QXF file and paste to Desktop.
In Quicken do
File > Import > Quicken Windows File (QDF, QXF)
Select the QXF File on Desktop and Quicken does the rest.
Then all you have left to do is Setup Automatic Downloads.
Thank you to all who tried to help. - edited May 2018
Glad that worked for you but there is still a mystery as to WHY you needed to do that.Called Quicken Support. The solution was so simple, I was embarrassed.
All you have to do is open the file you want to move on the old computer, do
File > Export > Quicken Windows Transfer File (QXF)
Save it to either Dropbox or iCloud.
Go to the new computer, copy the QXF file and paste to Desktop.
In Quicken do
File > Import > Quicken Windows File (QDF, QXF)
Select the QXF File on Desktop and Quicken does the rest.
Then all you have left to do is Setup Automatic Downloads.
Thank you to all who tried to help.
For anyone reading this, that is NOT the typical way to do this, and is only a last resort. The reason is because MANY things are lost in the process, such as, memorized transactions, saved reports, budgets, connection settings, and more.
Meanwhile, You can add your VOTEtoAdd Ability to Select Content of QXF File for Export.
First, click on the underlined link above to go there, then click VOTE at the top of THAT page, so your will vote count for THIS feature and increase its visibility to the developers by seeking to have the features you need or desire end up in the latest version.
While you are at it, you may want to add your VOTE to related IDEAS found on the List of Requests for Data and File Management Features. Click on the underlined link, then follow the instructions to add your vote to more related ideas. Your VOTES matter!
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