Investments – Quicken Essentials lets you to track the overall value of your investment accounts and the value of specific holdings, but the software does not track individual buys and sells, nor will it provide some advanced investment performance reports.Įxporting to TurboTax – Quicken Essentials does not currently support the ability to export your data to TurboTax.ĭirect bill pay – You can track your bills in Quicken Essentials, but the program doesn’t have the direct bill pay capabilities that allow you to pay your bills directly from the program. Note that you wouldn’t otherwise learn about this until you had bought and begun installing Quicken Essentials:Īs much as we improved the experience of using Quicken when we rebuilt it from the ground up, there are some features you may have been used to using in Quicken for Mac (or Quicken for Windows) that we didn’t include in this version of Quicken Essentials. Here’s some info from the Setup Guide that I gleaned from one of the reviews.
#QUICKEN ESSENTIALS FOR MAC 2011 UPGRADE#
While Intuit claim that “this is the upgrade you’ve been waiting for, ” it appears they’ve paid too much attention to form, without focusing on function. Unfortunately, the early reviews on Amazon are abysmal, averaging 1.5 stars on over 100 reviews. “Built from the ground up for Mac, the 2010 Edition delivers the intuitive ease of use and clean, modern look you’ve come to expect from a Mac application.” The new software runs natively on an Intel chip (requires MacOS X 10.5+) and the interface has been completely re-designed to make it more user-friendly.
#QUICKEN ESSENTIALS FOR MAC 2011 UPDATE#
On the surface, this update sounds great. Quicken Essentials was actually released back in February, but I somehow missed the announcement. I just received a mailer yesterday announcing the arrival of Quicken Essentials for Mac, which is the long-awaited update to Quicken 2007 for Mac.