Quicken 2012 Sunsets on 4/30/15

I have been using Quicken to keep track of our family finances since sometime in the 90's. Lately I've been trying to get away from services that work just fine but become obsoleted by the vendor changing something that makes them less useful.

I have been successful in replacing my Quicken 2013 with a free program KMyMoney. Beginning last August I entered all transactions into both Quicken and KMyMoney to see whether the new program would meet my needs. It took a month or so to get everything set up and as of March 1st I have stopped using Quicken.

I upgraded last year when I bought a new laptop. 2014 gives me a cloud back-up system, but I'm not as happy with some other features. I always manually reconcile or add things. It's basically a very large check register for me. Having things dating back to 1996 is kind of nice to see how much we used to make or spend.

Plus, I like to preplan budgets, funding retirement, etc. Not sure any other program would allow me to do that.

My son tried to get me to use MSN Money, but like MS Streets and Trips, MS has discontinued it, too.

snipe:

hitchup wrote:
2014 gives me a cloud back-up system,

You are incorrect, it does not do this!

sherlock62 wrote:
snipe:

hitchup wrote:
2014 gives me a cloud back-up system,

You are incorrect, it does not do this!

Well that's funny my 2013 has Quicken Cloud Backup! I'm sure the 2014 Product would also...

sch911 wrote:

sherlock62 wrote:
snipe:

hitchup wrote:
2014 gives me a cloud back-up system,

You are incorrect, it does not do this!

Well that's funny my 2013 has Quicken Cloud Backup! I'm sure the 2014 Product would also...

For many years, Quicken has offered for a $9.00+ fee, Quicken Online Back-up which places your data file in storage on their servers. With Quicken 2014(and 2015) this is still offered. What became available in Quicken 2013 was -not a cloud back-up system- but rather Quicken 2013 user's (and Quicken 2004-15 users) were given the option of having their data in the cloud for use with say smartphones. A sync capability. (your Quicken with your smartphone) This having the data in the cloud is by no means a "back-up". Should your Quicken data file become corrupted or lost say in a fire you could not access the sync record lets call it, in the cloud for back-up purchases. You'd be out of luck without a "back-up".

Quicken 2009 works fine for me. I expect it will continue.

obgraham wrote:
Quicken 2009 works fine for me. I expect it will continue.

Yes, Quicken 2009 works with newer operating systems (thus far) but often you can have varied issues with printing and such. Also, no online capability. Some Quicken user's do online bill pay with Quicken, monitor their stock earning, etc. and such so online capability is a must for them. I started this thread to let those people know that if they were using Quicken 2012, they would need to upgrade their Quicken before April 30, 2015

We were on Quicken 2011 when they disabled the online functionality which is a must have for us. I guess we have another couple of years before they disable our 2014.

I HATE them for that. If there was any alternative with equivalent functionality we'd switch in a flash.

joebedford wrote:
We were on Quicken 2011 when they disabled the online functionality which is a must have for us. I guess we have another couple of years before they disable our 2014.

I HATE them for that. If there was any alternative with equivalent functionality we'd switch in a flash.

April 2017 and your Quicken 2014 will sunset and thus no online capability. Will be time for you, as a Quicken 2014 user, to move to a newer version of Quicken.

By the way, I totally understand why they sunset Quicken.

sherlock62 wrote:
What became available in Quicken 2014 was -not a cloud back-up system- but rather Quicken 2014 user's (and Quicken 2015 users) were given the option of having their data in the cloud for use with say smartphones. A sync capability. (your Quicken with your smartphone) This having the data in the cloud is by no means a "back-up". Should your Quicken data file become corrupted or lost say in a fire you could not access the sync record lets call it, in the cloud for back-up purchases. You'd be out of luck without a "back-up".

This service is available for 2013 also. I use it every day....