![]() ![]() To make matters worse, each of your financial products performs differently over time – some years you see great returns and some are barely staying afloat. And that is one nasty, stinky application!Īfter I got used to GnuCash and learned to tailor my data entry habits to match the way it works it wound up being FASTER to use than Money or Quicken - at least for wifey and me.In the modern world of a variety of financial products and accounts from different banks, credit unions, investment firms, and others, it is rather hard to make sense of your financial situation without a one-stop-shop solution. I never got anyone at MS to acknowledge that ANYTHING was wrong with Money. But you report a bug at bugzilla on this app, and the developers get right back to you. I don't think I could live with anything else now.Īnd it genuinely does get better with each new release (notwithstanding some odd bugs recently having to do with calendar controls in one version). It's kind of funny because I had a HARD time dealing with the double-entry behavior, but my wife persisted in making me stick with GnuCash. ![]() I tried a number of them, but my wife fell in love with GnuCash (for Windows) when it was released last year. I finally had it one day and went looking for Open Source alternatives. ![]() Heck, Money (if you download it instead of getting the disc) can't even be reliably reinstalled without jumping through a bunch of hoops for the lousy online vendor MS uses. And they kept creating new flaws while they were at it. Intuit and MS just kept shoveling on the features without fixing terrible flaws in the software. Over the years I became downright appalled at just how horribly written Quicken and MS Money were. We used Dollars and $ense on Apple //e, Quicken and Money under DOS, Quicken and Money under several versions of Windows. My wife, on the other hand, is a CPA in addition to being a systems analyst. You can trust me when I tell you I am NOT a business-oriented bloke. I'm going to buck the tide just a little. Last edited by Subban October 8th, 2008 at 07:55 PM. Oh, and the cost for Moneydance was almost insignificant something like under 20 quid. I managed to use it from whithin a few minutes without reading the manual and have no previous experience with similar software. Other than that Moneydance is very simple and more than competant for what I need so haven't looked at alternatives. Its not much of a problem to be fair, its very easy to select the correct category from a drop down before hitting 'record'. Moneydance does of course manage to get all other transactions right and repeat the correct category. ![]() The only downside I have with Moneydance is if the imported transaction has a changing reference then it seems to bypass Moneydances ability to try and repeat what category you assigned to it before, so for example I have to *constantly* put my expenditure at Somerfields (for groceries) in the the Personal:Groceries category and I can't find a way to fix it, all because Somerfields adds a Ref number to the transaction that Moneydance doesn't allow for. It sounds like my usage is similar to yours in that I download the OFX (supports other formats too) and import it into Moneydance and proceed from there so I can see where my money goes. I've been using Moneydance for quite some time. I'm lazy - just the thought of logging on to multiple banks and credit card places to download transactions is no fun. I'm searching for a version already compiled for Kubuntu that supports online banking. I don't see that as an option with the stable version available through Synaptec. I also read the KMyMoney can be compiled to support online banking via OFX. I am using the stable version - but am thinking of going to the unstable version (if I can figure out how) for the budgeting reports. There is an awful lot to be said about an application working. If you already have a copy of Quicken, and if you have WINE installed on your PC, you might want to see if you can get Quicken to run under WINE. Still, you have to manually log on to your bank and download your transactions as OFX. I see KMyMoney now supports an OFX plugin. With KMyMoney I was downloading manually and importing as QIF. With GNUCash I had to log on to each bank and download transactions as QIF and import them. Quicken is very straight-forward in setting up accounts and automating updating your transactions. Neither KMyMoney nor GNUCash can compare to Quicken in either ease of use or integration with banks. ![]()
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