Comments on: Quicken Online makes it easy to track your finances, at a price

By: jm

jm — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:50:56 +0000

when is quicken online going to starting charging.. It is free now for me at least.

also, quicken online biggest shortcoming is that there is no “update all” anywhere that I can find. So manually refreshing 30 accounts one at a time is really annoying.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:42:45 +0000

Thanks for the review- I am not going to get it now that you have told me that you cannot split transactions- I too love to know where every dime is going! Great review!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:44:21 +0000

I spent about two weeks with Quicken Online and then canceled. Icons and graphics were cute, but the site is TOO slow. I’m stick with Google Docs spreadsheets… until Quicken refreshed their Mac client.

By: Sal Cangeloso

Sal Cangeloso — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:37:25 +0000

Nice post.

Mint was just highly recommended to me by someone today. I knew it and Wesabe, etc, existed but never really bother looking into them. I’m definitely more interested in them as I read more, especially consider just how bad the stock tools are.

Security is definitely a concern. The companies clearly are keeping security tight, but any time you consolidate that much personal information in one service it’s something I need to think twice about.

By: Dan Rubin

Dan Rubin — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:07:06 +0000

@jonathanpberger:

I’m currently spending a month or so with mint.com, so look for my writeup on that sometime next month. Haven’t tried wesabe.

Re: security – it’s everyone’s biggest concern when it comes to any online financial management. Well, security and convenience. Both mint and Quicken Online are Trust-e certified, are VeriSign Secured, and use 128-bit encryption. Mint claims that your personal data is neither viewable or accessible by mint.com employees. Even if someone got a hold of my mint or Quicken logins, they still wouldn’t be able to do anything – neither site lets you directly access your login options for individual accounts.

If my actual bank offered the “all your accounts viewed in one place” option, I’d feel just as safe with them as I do with mint or Quicken. Let’s just hope I’m not proven wrong

By: jonathanpberger

jonathanpberger — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:43:45 +0000

Have you taken a look at Wesabe.com? I’ve dabbled with it, but have yet to really dig in. It seems to have all sorts of web-two-point-oh social goodness, but I wonder if the price point for Quicken is a bug rather than a feature. Do you really want sensitive financial data in the hands of someone who doesn’t have a (potentially actionable) customer-service relationship?

By: Ben Drawbaugh

Ben Drawbaugh — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:00:11 +0000

Having been a Quicken user for 8 years, I’ve always wondered how it stacked up against the online version. So thanks for taking the time to share.

When I switched to a Mac, my Mini came with Quicken for Mac and switching from Quicken from PC was one of the hardest migrations I’ve ever done. Luckily Intuit sat on the phone for me for 2 hours helping to correct my balances after I converted.

The sad part is that Quicken for Mac is the worst Mac software I’ve ever used and I’ve paid for a few updates hoping for an improvement. I’ve even thought about going back to the PC version and running it with Parallels, but even after 3 years I’m gun shy about going through the migration again.

But as much as I hate Quicken for Mac, I’ve looked at replacing it with alternatives and most of them don’t seem to compare because of Quicken’s ability to automatically download transactions from my banks and credit cards.

Either way for my uses it doesn’t sound like Quicken Online would work, since my biggest complain about Q for Mac is how poorly the reporting and budgeting is compared to the PC version.