Quicken Upgrade 2016 For A Mac

Feb 27, 2016  Furthermore, I purchased Quicken 2016 for Mac when offered a discount by Intuit and was greatly underwhelmed! I returned to my continued use of Quicken 2007 for Mac. I still strongly recommend you purchase Quicken 2007 for Mac from Intuit for $15 by going to the Chat feature of Intuit's Support website. After Mac users were let down by a lite version of Bill Pay in Quicken 2016 for Mac, it seems that the new product development team at Quicken have finally listened to the complaints of Mac users and added a fully functional Quicken Bill Pay for Mac in Quicken for Mac 2017. Bill Pay is arguably the most requested feature in Quicken for Mac after it was inexplicably removed from Quicken 2007 for Mac and for that alone, will be worth the upgrade for many users.

As a daily user, I upgraded to Quicken 2016 this week. The changes aren’t very significant but I chose to upgrade anyway. So here’s my Quicken 2016 review, with my thoughts about the latest version as well as an updated look at my and an updated Credit Score just for fun! 27-Nov-16: An updated Quicken 2017 review is also available.

Quicken 2016 – what is it? Quicken 2016 is the latest release in one of the few remaining desktop finance applications for PCs & Macs. Other cloud-based alternatives (,, etc) are very popular and growing at a fast rate and products such as have also gained a lot of traction. How to set imap retention policy in outlook for mac download.

Intuit, the company who makes Quicken, is concentrating on cloud and online services with its popular (and free) website as well as its product for small business and services such as Quicken Bill Pay. Intuit also makes the popular software. They announced in 2015 that Quicken is, which is certainly a point to keep in mind considering the lackluster improvements in the latest 2016 version. Of course they’re promising a bright future for Quicken although the evidence in the form of Quicken 2016 does not bode well. Quicken 2016 comes in several different versions – Starter ($39.99), Deluxe ($74.99) and Premier ($104.99).

If you are interested in purchasing Quicken, I suggest you shop around instead of buying directly from Intuit or using their Quicken upgrade offer. I bought my version of from Amazon for $54.99, a 50% discount from the ‘official’ $104.99 price and cheaper than Intuit’s special price pf $62.99. Is $29.99 at the time I wrote this, compared to the official $74.99. Quicken Editions The Starter edition is only for new Quicken users as it doesn’t offer the ability to import older Quicken files. The Deluxe version is the standard version for most people and you only need the Premier version if you have investments at brokerages which you want to manage and review. You can see a more detailed comparison at.

I use the investing features which are only available with Quicken Premier so that’s the only version I’m interested in. All versions of Quicken work with a free mobile app.

I’ve never used the app nor have I ever found myself needing to use one, so I won’t really comment on that. But it’s there if you want it. I turn off the “cloud synchronizing” feature which enables the mobile app functionality. Installation and upgrade Since I bought my copy from Amazon, I simply needed to download the 150MB installation file. It took about 6 minutes to uninstall Quicken 2015, install Quicken 2016 and import my data file to the latest version. Now I think my data file is pretty big at 80MB as I have transactions going back to 2009, but it imported everything without any problems and I had no issues starting up Quicken afterwards. The installation does backup your Quicken 2015 file, so if something did go wrong you can always reinstall the older version and open up the saved file.

IDs, Passwords and Security I didn’t have to fuss about license keys or anything like that during the installation, although I did need to enter my “Intuit ID” to register. This is an online ID which works across a range of Intuit products and it can also be linked with the mint.com login too; (although I wonder for how much longer). Because Quicken is a more traditional desktop app storing your data on your computer, you can lock your Quicken Data with the Intuit ID, or with a custom password, preventing it from being opened. And you can also use only the older “Vault password” instead, this password is required to be entered to gain access to your banking credentials for downloading transactions etc. New Features for 2016 So I freely admit that I’m underwhelmed by the and that probably comes across in my comments below. It’s not that Quicken 2016 is bad, it’s just that it offers nothing new and is almost unchanged from 2015. Here’s a summary of the four new ‘features’ which are being offered for your hard-earned money: • Quicken Bill Pay.