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I wish there was some way to do this without handing over the credentials for my entire financial life to a 3rd party—which I refuse to do.
by snowwrestler 3y ago
I wish there was some way to do this without handing over the credentials for my entire financial life to a 3rd party—which I refuse to do.
- ryandrake 3y agoI don't believe you are actually "handing over the credentials" to Intuit or any other 3rd party (unless you consider your computer the third party). When you use Direct Connect, they're stored locally (for example, Keychain on Mac), and when you use Quicken Connect (aka EWC or EWC+), it's more like oauth where you authorize through the financial institution website, and they issue a token to Quicken. What you want to avoid is their "Quicken Sync" which stores credentials in their cloud (yikes!). It is confusing as an end user, and they don't really do much to explain it. You have to do some digging to understand how it works.
- snowwrestler 3y agoThanks, I must be thinking of Quicken Sync. I’ll look into Direct Connect.