Quicken Inc should eliminate or minimize the LARGE popup with expiration (119 Legacy Votes)

It turns out that when your Quicken subscription membership expires, about 20%+ of your screen real-estate will become used for Quicken advertising (see image below). This was discovered by some users that received versions with temporary subscriptions that have now expired.

At the moment, this appears to be limited to the QWin version(s), as the QMac version has not exhibited the same behaviour, yet. But it will be about 6 months before the first QMac versions expire, so anything can happen until then.
EDIT: This definitely affects ALL versions of Quicken, QWin US, QWin CA and QMac.
(This may have been part of the move to not make data read-only for most of the editions of Quicken, as a result of the mounting complaints. See
QWin/QMac 2017: Quicken Inc should reverse its decision to change to a subscription that makes the user's data read-only if they stop paying )
EDIT - Nov 30, 2018: it was confirmed that this response was as a direct result of the complaints at the thread above! Quicken has determined that this is the price to pay if you let your subscription expire!
You may also want to contact Quicken Support to express your concerns:
https://www.quicken.com/contact-support

At the moment, this appears to be limited to the QWin version(s), as the QMac version has not exhibited the same behaviour, yet. But it will be about 6 months before the first QMac versions expire, so anything can happen until then.
EDIT: This definitely affects ALL versions of Quicken, QWin US, QWin CA and QMac.
(This may have been part of the move to not make data read-only for most of the editions of Quicken, as a result of the mounting complaints. See
QWin/QMac 2017: Quicken Inc should reverse its decision to change to a subscription that makes the user's data read-only if they stop paying )
EDIT - Nov 30, 2018: it was confirmed that this response was as a direct result of the complaints at the thread above! Quicken has determined that this is the price to pay if you let your subscription expire!
People should vote on this "idea" if they are against Quicken Inc using this business model.
(click on the little grey triangle under the vote count in the blue banner below...it may take a moment to register your vote). YOUR VOTES MATTER!
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Quicken should eliminate the LARGE Ad space when a subscription expires
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user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
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Note: I said "should not be".
With Quicken, anything is possible now. Who knows what they might put into the next update.
[Rant Redacted - Disruptive]
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Unfortunately, for QMac, there continue to be too many database changes due to all the development so it does not work.
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To now use the "threat" of disabling a large portion of one's Quicken screen size if the user does not pay the subscription is just as wrong-headed as the original plan to prevent further data capture once the subscription had expired. Message to Quicken: you catch far more flies with honey than with vinegar. Your product is the best in a very limited market, with loyal users like me who have used it for over 25 years. Don't alienate us, we all having far too much to lose. Feel free to contact me if you would like to know how to improve your communications to win over more to your new business model.
For QMac, this was only introduced since QM2015 came out but was not experienced until for some QEM support expired shortly after, though for most for the first time not until April 2018 when QM2015 expired (since many migrated from QM2007 directly, which does not expire).
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Yes I have tried it, in fact for quite a while I had my machine on the latest version of Quicken and my wife's on Quicken 2017 both reading the same data file.
We appreciate your feedback on this box in expired-subscription Quicken products, and we've taken your feedback to our development and marketing teams. While it's possible this could change in the future, this messaging will remain the same for now.
Unlike many subscription products, when your Quicken subscription expires, you're still able to add or remove transactions, view your transaction history, run reports, and use Quicken as often as you like in 'manual' mode. This in-product messaging rose out of a necessity to let expired users know about product updates, benefits, and other sale offers that we hope will lead users to resubscribe to our products. If expired users choose not to resubscribe, then this messaging does not prevent them from using Quicken in any way.
I hope this explanation makes sense--as this Idea is not planned, I will close this thread; however, you can continue to vote on this thread, and it will be reopened and responded to if there are any changes in the future.
Thanks,
Quicken Kathryn
Community Administrator
I have a "Oh no! You're , missing out." message on the right side of my screen. I would like to get rid of it. I am not interested in having connected services and wish not to be reminded all the time.
I have voted with my wallet, in that I have evaluated several alternatives and selected one that offers the same functionality that I need with out the need for constant internet connectivity that the expired version now needs. Converting was very seamless, only needing to input the recurring transactions.
I now only need to put up with Quicken for archival purposes.
Sounds like a reasonable thing to do given this new policy if one is just going to be entering transactions manually.
I think Quicken Inc is making a BIG mistake.
It seems to me that all of the old Quicken marketing people from Intuit must have transferred from Inuit to Quicken inc because they are still treating the customers as "opponents" they have beat over the head to make them buy their product.
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Quicken should eliminate the LARGE Ad space when a subscription expires
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