RE quicken home & bus v 25.24 cdn edition work on a new Mac

Ana

Purchased jun 2020 quicken home & business v 25.24 cdn edition for my 15 yr old HP laptop have windows 10 home. (Been using quicken for 20 years) but now need new laptop was thinking to buy Mac. Can files and version be transferred over to Mac without losing any data? Without additional costs ? Without difficulty ?

jacobs

@Ana  As has been written above, there is no Home and Business version of Quicken for Mac. There never has been. There's a long thread of comments from hundreds of users pleading with Quicken to create one, and they've clearly thought about it -- but there has been no indication from the company if or when they will ever develop such a product. For the past five years, they've been working on building up the features of the re-written Quicken Mac, which still doesn't match the features of the corresponding Quicken Windows Deluxe and Premier versions. Home and Business is built atop the core Quicken, so they doubtless had to build out the core Quicken Mac before they could even do the work to create a Home and Business version for Mac. Whether they will do so at some point in the future is anyone's guess. 

If you need the feature of Home and Business, therefore, your only path with Quicken is to run the Windows version in a virtual machine on your Mac -- and there are definitely people who do this. Virtual Machine software adds some complexity to your computing environment, since you need to install the VM software, install Quicken Windows, and then install Quicken Home & Business. There is both free and paid VM software on the market; most reviews give the nod to Parallels, a paid product, as the most robust and easiest to manage, but if you're a bit technically inclined, one of the free VM products might be suitable.

If you determine you can manage without the Home and Business features in Quicken, then you might find the native Quicken Mac to be suitable. With the subscription you already purchased, you can download Quicken Mac (it will say it is Home & Business, but it's really Premier) and try it. You can import your Quicken Windows data, but all the Home and Business-specific data won't be imported. 

Greg_the_Geek

You would need to run Windows in a Virtual Machine on the Mac to continue to use Quicken H&B. There is no Quicken H&B for Mac.

Chris_QPW

This question should be tagged as Mac instead of Windows, so that the Mac users can answer this question, which would have more details on the process.

Ana

Ok. So #mac users what are you comments.

NotACPA

I just asked the Mods to move this thread to a Mac topic area.

Greg_the_Geek

Seems to me that if the OP wants to run Quicken H&B, they need to use Windows.

Chris_QPW

@Greg_the_Geek To me it was sort "both" a Windows and Mac question were a lot of it would be better answered by a Mac person.  As in rephrase the question as "If I move from Quicken Windows H&B to Quicken Mac Deluxe how would I do it?, what data/features would I lose?

jacobs

@Ana  As has been written above, there is no Home and Business version of Quicken for Mac. There never has been. There's a long thread of comments from hundreds of users pleading with Quicken to create one, and they've clearly thought about it -- but there has been no indication from the company if or when they will ever develop such a product. For the past five years, they've been working on building up the features of the re-written Quicken Mac, which still doesn't match the features of the corresponding Quicken Windows Deluxe and Premier versions. Home and Business is built atop the core Quicken, so they doubtless had to build out the core Quicken Mac before they could even do the work to create a Home and Business version for Mac. Whether they will do so at some point in the future is anyone's guess. 

If you need the feature of Home and Business, therefore, your only path with Quicken is to run the Windows version in a virtual machine on your Mac -- and there are definitely people who do this. Virtual Machine software adds some complexity to your computing environment, since you need to install the VM software, install Quicken Windows, and then install Quicken Home & Business. There is both free and paid VM software on the market; most reviews give the nod to Parallels, a paid product, as the most robust and easiest to manage, but if you're a bit technically inclined, one of the free VM products might be suitable.

If you determine you can manage without the Home and Business features in Quicken, then you might find the native Quicken Mac to be suitable. With the subscription you already purchased, you can download Quicken Mac (it will say it is Home & Business, but it's really Premier) and try it. You can import your Quicken Windows data, but all the Home and Business-specific data won't be imported.