Today we're starting to rollout the v6.5 release which includes a number of enhancements including:
- Improved investment dashboard. Now the dashboard cards expand with the window and fill the screen. Holdings now display the security name instead of the symbol to take advantage of the wider card width. There's a new toolbar that gives you more control such as setting the date for the information in the dashboard, updating quotes, and choosing to display cents.
- More improvements to the Account Sidebar Notifications. We now add an icon to tell you whether auto-reconcile succeeded or if there were issues requiring a manual review. We also give you more control regarding what the blue dot indicator represents. You can continue to have it represent accounts with new transactions or you can change it to represent accounts that have unreviewed transactions.
- Brand-New Add eBill - We've completely re-built the add eBill flow to make it more reliable and simpler to use. Previously, trying to add an eBill would sometimes fail because it would time out. Now we support a Pending state which means we'll continue to try to add it even after you've completed the add eBill process. These incomplete eBills will now appear in a new Pending tray that appears at the bottom of the screen of the Bills and Payee tabs. The flow now also supports adding more than one account from a single biller and will also propose a scheduled transaction for you instead of forcing you to define one.
- Quicken Connect Investments - Previously Quicken Mac only supported Direct Connect investment accounts which worked fine if you had a brokerage account from a long-established brokerage such as Schwab, Fidelity, or Vanguard. Unfortunately, none of the new brokerage companies supported the infrastructure required for Direct Connect investments so you previously couldn't add these accounts. We've just turned this on in v6.4 and v6.5 so you will now be able to add Robinhood, Betterment, and others. In many cases, you will only be able to get the market value for the account but at least this will allow you to track your true net worth. You now have access to an additional 800 financial institutions but the quality of each of these connections will be different depending on the institution. Let us know which ones are working for you and which ones aren't.
Please provide any feedback, especially new bugs that you encounter, in this forum post so we can easily track and speed any required fixes. If you aren't being notified of the update but would like to try it out, just go to the Quicken menu and select
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The Quicken Mac Development Team
UPDATES12/22 - Starting to roll out v6.5 to a small percentage of customers including those signed up for Early Access features.
12/28 - Fixed the orange pencil triggering the unreviewed blue dot and options share count in the dashboard issues. Also fixed some crashing bug. We're still in limited release.