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if he's so angry at intuit, why did he give them more of his money? there are plenty of alternatives out there that work on a mac and can download OFX transact

by there 15y ago

if he's so angry at intuit, why did he give them more of his money? there are plenty of alternatives out there that work on a mac and can download OFX transaction data; ibank and gnucash being two off the top of my head. back in 2005, i spent $200 on quickbooks basic to do invoicing for my software business. i had a dedicated windows machine just to run the software, and it was terrible. the interface was confusing, it wouldn't do what i needed it to, and it had a ton of things that i didn't need. worst of all, i was constantly bombarded with messages in the application advertising intuit's other products and services like check printing, payroll, and online data backup. at one point i needed to prepare an estimate, only to get a popup message telling me the $200 version i just bought didn't have that feature, but that i could easily spend more money and upgrade to a better version. at that point i gave up and made my own web-based billing system (http://corduroysite.com http://corduroysite.com) to do what i needed, and then turned it into a SaaS.

shaggyfrog 15y ago
> if he's so angry at intuit, why did he give them more of his money? Because he's just trying to get some shit done in the short term. I use GnuCash for my business accounting. It is very painful software. And I run it on my Win 7 virtual machine because the OS X support stinks -- and that kind of musical OS chairs is one thing he is trying to avoid.
- there 15y ago
  then why do you use it?
- jsstartup 15y ago
  If he's trying to get some shit done then he shouldn't be using a Mac for business. It's that simple.
lylejohnson 15y ago
I went with Moneydance (http://www.moneydance.com/ http://www.moneydance.com/) when I got fed up with the Quicken for Mac situation a few years back, and I've been mostly happy with the switch. It's a Java app, and as a result looks out of place amongst my mostly native apps, but it's pretty reliable and gets the job done.
- karlmdavis 15y ago
  Looks like they support importing from Quicken Essentials for the Mac [1]-- might be a good alternative for the author. [1] http://moneydance.com/blog/archives/434 http://moneydance.com/blog/archives/434

by there 15y ago

shaggyfrog 15y ago

> if he's so angry at intuit, why did he give them more of his money? Because he's just trying to get some shit done in the short term. I use GnuCash for my business accounting. It is very painful software. And I run it on my Win 7 virtual machine because the OS X support stinks -- and that kind of musical OS chairs is one thing he is trying to avoid.

there 15y ago
then why do you use it?
jsstartup 15y ago
If he's trying to get some shit done then he shouldn't be using a Mac for business. It's that simple.

lylejohnson 15y ago

I went with Moneydance (http://www.moneydance.com/ http://www.moneydance.com/) when I got fed up with the Quicken for Mac situation a few years back, and I've been mostly happy with the switch. It's a Java app, and as a result looks out of place amongst my mostly native apps, but it's pretty reliable and gets the job done.

karlmdavis 15y ago
Looks like they support importing from Quicken Essentials for the Mac [1]-- might be a good alternative for the author. [1] http://moneydance.com/blog/archives/434 http://moneydance.com/blog/archives/434