Review by M Cox

When I imported my Quicken 2012 backup file into this new 2015 Home and Business application it appeared it just ruined decades of faithful record keeping dating back to 1992. Thankfully I had the foresight to save a backup file and loaded it onto my laptop computer with Quicken 2012 installed. I read the negative reviews extensively, but I just could not believe they were accurate or true. It was the one and only reason I bought this 2015 version. I was perfectly happy with the 2012 version. I despise their marketing strategy of disabling the ability to download transactions from your various bank accounts after 3 years. It doesn’t cost them one penny to allow indefinite downloads. It is like we have to rent Quicken on a three year contract. Or else, it will stop performing certain key features if we don’t upgrade. I have just recently started to hate Intuit. I think they must have some new greedy management that gets huge incentives to cheat their customer base.

I didn’t realize how bad the Quicken 2015 version was until today when I looked back a couple of years and saw insane numbers. For instance, it showed over $30,000 in cash and then a few months later, it was negative by $19,000. This is my pocket money account. I would never have this much cash with me at home or anywhere else. I finally found the problem. In some accounts, it was sorted by category instead of by date. I never touch the headings, so this is something that Quicken 2015 did during the import from my 2012 backup. I was totally panicked until I found the source of the problem. I nearly uninstalled it to go back to Quicken 2012.

I have been a loyal customer since about 1990 or about that timeframe. I’ve had random issues with stock purchases for years. I’ve had to do the calculations by hand or Excel to be more exact because I could never trust Quicken to make the profit or loss calculations correctly and I don’t understand why, either. It’s simple arithmetic.

If you are upgrading from a prior version and have extensive data files dating into antiquity, I suggest you try to control yourself and keep your credit card in your wallet where it should remain indefinitely. Don’t be tempted or intimidated into buying this version. The 2012 version of Quicken is just fine - but I am not confident with this one. Also, every time I opened my Quicken file with this version, the loading time was far longer than in Quicken 2012. I’ve got a really fast computer running at 4.6 GHz and it takes 8 seconds to load. It’s not such a long time, but Quicken 2012 was near instant with the very same file.

I’ve been a Quicken defender and advocate of this product for 25 years and now my faith and confidence are destroyed. I will not upgrade again. I will have to record things from the internet by hand because Quicken is being a total jerk by disallowing me to continue doing that after April 2015. It’s totally arbitrary. They must have some new jerk in marketing who is trying to gouge its customer base to coerce customers to upgrade every three years. That is being totally idiotic. And they jacked up the prices of TurboTax this year as well. They stripped out Schedule C without telling anyone. And the new version is far more expensive. Well, I’ve had enough of Intuit. I quit. I’ve already decided I won’t spend another penny on Intuit products. I hope everybody else does the same thing. It is the only way they’ll become sensible.