Comments on: Welcome Microsoft Money users

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:27:52 +0000

I agree that with the exception of Microsoft Money, all programs, Quicken included, miss the Cash Flow forecast feature. I find this to be the single most signficant feature I’ve ever used in personal finance management.

With Microsoft Money, I could tell you nearly to the penny exactly who much money I would have 2 weeks, 1 month, 6 months or 1 year from now. It also helped me to understand the impact of purchase decisions assuming that there would be no increase to forecasted income.

Quicken Online has a rudimentary version of that, but I can’t interact with it or use it for modeling nearly as well as I could with Microsoft Money.

If you could deliver that, as a number of people in this thread have requested, I would be a zealot for your app.

By: JR Valdez

JR Valdez — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:54:31 +0000

What Mint can’t do that MS Money can it to post checks you’ve written in order to know your true account balance. Mint only tells you what has cleared, so if you have checks outstanding and you rely on you Mint balance, you are very likely to bounce a check and incurr severe penalties.

By: Dofzin

Dofzin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:33:04 +0000

Also a Money orphan, I have now tried both Mint and Quicken. Neither have what I would consider very basic features:

1. Support for on-line transactions in multiple currencies.
2. Support for banks that can provide OFC/QFX files for import but who are not officially listed as “supported” by either Mint of Quicken.

It is said really that Quicken, the market leader, is so short in such a basic area. There are millions of people in the US with foreign accounts (so says the IRS), and I’m certainly one of them.

I actually could live with Mint’s other shortcomings (I really don’t need to enter future uncleared transactions, etc.) if it would only support non-US financial institutions and multiple currencies (at one bank I have both CAD and USD checking accounts, and both a CAD, USD, and pound sterling Visa credit card).

By: Portwine

Portwine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:19:18 +0000

Upcoming transactions should be added to Mint. I’m coming over from QuickenOnline, and I really miss this feature. I’m trying to understand Mint’s budgeting system, but it’s not as well suited to my needs as upcoming transactions was in QuickenOnline.

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By: DOUG ANDERSON

DOUG ANDERSON — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:15:33 +0000

Please offer a phone number for those of us having difficulty adding accounts???

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:18:48 +0000

I’ve recently switched from Quicken Premiere to MondeyDance, because I’m fed up with Quicken’s 3 year “sunset” policy. MD isn’t as flashy as Quicken (graphs are limited, etc), but it has most of the practical functionality … and there are some nice features that Quicken doesn’t have (online bill pay is free, it’s cross platform / open source design, etc.).

I may use Mint to fill the gaps lacking in MoneyDance.

By: navyboy3

navyboy3 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:54 +0000

With MS Money’s departure, a void has been left. Mint does some things well, actually Quicken Online has a better feature set in my opinion however neither do it all compared to Money. The balance outlook in Money was much more advanced than the rudimentary one in Quicken that only looks ahead 2 paychecks. Mint with all of its hype doesnt even have a balance outlook. Nevermind that Money also allowed you to pay bills and that provided a one stop software. Until quicken and or Mint does the balance forecasting and hopefully bill pay it will be only one of the tools I have to use to managee my finances in the absence of MS Money.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:17:21 +0000

I have used MS$ for years and am addicted to it. Once I heard it was going away, I looked into other options (after I cried) and I am using Mint but I’m not really sure what for. Other than giving me a big picture, it doesn’t pay my bills or give me my cashflow forecast. I will still use Money as a check register and to see my forcasted cash flow. As to those who think you’ll have service until 2011, think again. You have 2 years from date of activation to have the automatic updates work, a week ago, I was notified I had 30 days until it was done for me. I scrambled to set up auto pay where available and the rest bill pay through my bank. This loyal customer will miss MS$.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:25:54 +0000

I too have been using MS$ for 12 years and I’m looking to switch over. But after reading all these post I’ll just wait. If I can’t import my 12 year history I’m not going no where! Also, another biggie is entering in unreconciled transactions and upcoming bill pays…There is no way I could live without that.

Also, how safe would my data be from loss? MS & T-Mobile just lost everyone’s Sidekick data and I would have never thought that was possible in this day and age.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:05:05 +0000

Man reading these comments is like looking in the mirror or my own little support group. I too am a Mac user that only keeps a Window machine in the house to run MS$. Now that Mint has been purchased by Quicken, I bet that we will see better integration of the two services in the future. I am a long time MS$ user and have data going back to 1996; I would hate to loose all that history.

In the meantime, I am waiting to see what happens with the merger and if Quicken will be able to easily transfer over data from MS$.

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