using Quicken for vacation rentals

frank@hn

Are there any discussions about using it for short term rentals?

UKR

There may have been the occasional question in the past.

Personally, I don't think you can use Quicken for the purpose of tracking and billing any kind of short term rentals.

• There's no calendar function to plan reservation dates for each vacation unit.
• The Rental Property Management feature is geared solely towards long-term rentals.
• The business feature of the Home & Business edition is more capable of invoicing for a small number of steady customers' purchases, not a mail order business or a short-term rental with an ever increasing number of customers.
• Invoices generated by Quicken cannot be customized to hotel or rental - specific needs. There's no "model invoice" where you can create a sample invoice with a fill in the blanks data entry dialog to easily create each new invoice.
• Long term, as more invoices are recorded, the invoice account register may become unmanageable. There's a Year End Copy feature, but it doesn't manage invoice accounts to split last year's invoices from this year.