Updating 2019 Home&Business and for a 1 year subscription ( edited for clarity)

rander3328

UPC 841798 131308 and 841798 141445. Both are 2019 Home&Business and for a 1 year subscription. I have a 2018 copy I need to update. is there a difference?

splasher

I can't speak to your specific UPCs, but this is how it all works:

Since 2018, it is just subscription Quicken, the year is pure marketing.  Having an active subscription gets you all updates to the software and all the online banking features.  It is an all inclusive price, not a fee in addition to the software purchase.

It doesn't matter where you purchase Quicken from, Quicken.com or a  reputable retailer partner, it is all the same, the only difference is the $/month, so shop around for the best deal.

Now and then, Quicken.com will make an offer that is pretty good that is only valid to first time subscription buyers, so there is a chance that Quicken.com may be a better deal that the retailers.

If you purchase from Quicken.com, the subscription starts at the time of purchase; with a retail purchase, it starts when you activate the subscription.

I advise that after your subscription is active, you login to Quicken.com and set your account preferences to "Auto Renew" to OFF, that way you have complete control over the price when you extend your subscription in the future since Quicken.com charges MSRP.

If you already have an active subscription, purchasing either way will EXTEND the subscription, this just has to happen during the last 6 months of the current subscription. (Keeps you from buying lots of activation codes and immediately activating all of them, so that you end up with a subscription ending in 5 years or so).

The activation codes are valid for two years after printing (Oct prior to year on box), so the 2019 boxes will be good until Fall, 2020.  The 2018 boxes had no expiration date.

splasher

I can't speak to your specific UPCs, but this is how it all works:

Since 2018, it is just subscription Quicken, the year is pure marketing.  Having an active subscription gets you all updates to the software and all the online banking features.  It is an all inclusive price, not a fee in addition to the software purchase.

It doesn't matter where you purchase Quicken from, Quicken.com or a  reputable retailer partner, it is all the same, the only difference is the $/month, so shop around for the best deal.

Now and then, Quicken.com will make an offer that is pretty good that is only valid to first time subscription buyers, so there is a chance that Quicken.com may be a better deal that the retailers.

If you purchase from Quicken.com, the subscription starts at the time of purchase; with a retail purchase, it starts when you activate the subscription.

I advise that after your subscription is active, you login to Quicken.com and set your account preferences to "Auto Renew" to OFF, that way you have complete control over the price when you extend your subscription in the future since Quicken.com charges MSRP.

If you already have an active subscription, purchasing either way will EXTEND the subscription, this just has to happen during the last 6 months of the current subscription. (Keeps you from buying lots of activation codes and immediately activating all of them, so that you end up with a subscription ending in 5 years or so).

The activation codes are valid for two years after printing (Oct prior to year on box), so the 2019 boxes will be good until Fall, 2020.  The 2018 boxes had no expiration date.

splasher

Oh another thing, you don't have Quicken 2018, you have Subscription Quicken, it has been updating all this time and if you check Help->About Quicken, it should indicate 2020 and 27.1.25.x or later if you have been allowing it to update.

rander3328

If the two UPC codes are Quicken H&B 2018 then why is one of them $30.00 and the other one is $60.00?

splasher

It could be who the original vendor was.  Walmart may get different packaging and UPC than if it is coming from Costco.
Why the big price difference, you would have to ask the seller.  
Just make sure that you are buying from a reputable seller and that if it is defective, you can get your money back.
It wouldn't surprise me if someone was selling packages with used activation codes as a scam.