Some background on why this is so difficult.
It wasn’t easy for me, but it will be a lot easier for you, thanks to some programming magic. Moving out of Quicken Essentials and into iBank.
I’ve spent the last three weeks doing just that. They are preventing you, once you’ve converted to Quicken Essentials, from ever exporting your data again for use in any other software, including their own! (no exporting into TurboTax anymore) Intuit is locking you into the Quicken family and there is very little reason why they would ever provide a way back out, other than consumer demand. Intuit, with Quicken Essentials 2010 for Macintosh, has stolen your data. This decision has been a year in the making. I recommended that previous Quicken users go ahead and upgrade to Quicken Essentials, which I did.
#MANUALLY SET UP PRICE IN QUICKEN FOR MAC FOR MAC#
Finally, I had a decision to make: Quicken Essentials or iBank 3? You can read my conclusion in the article Quicken Essentials for Mac – The Bare Minimum. I wrote a review of iBank 3: iBank – Your Quicken Alternative. I was looking for alternatives to Quicken, and iBank seemed like a good choice. You can read about that interview in my article Intuit Responds – Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac. I ended up interviewing Aaron Patzer, the GM/VP of Personal Finance at Intuit, and the founder of, which had just been acquired by Intuit. So much so that I got the attention of senior people inside the Intuit organization. Why Bother? I fired up the Macintosh Quicken community. I vented that frustration in my article titled, Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac. Back in February of 2010, I was terribly frustrated with the direction that Intuit was taking with Quicken for Macintosh, or the lack thereof.
Some quick background for any readers who are experiencing my personal saga with Macintosh Finance software for the first time. That’s not something anyone likes to admit, but when I’m wrong, I’m wrong, I’ll admit it.
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