R44.20 - Pending Transactions are incorrectly included in Account Bar balances

Question

Effective today I started to see pending transactions in my Chase Credit Card accounts as well as my United Bank of Michigan Accounts.  While I have seen some dialogue concerning problems with these none of them seem to reflect my particular issue.    In my case:* The pending transactions are correctly showing in a 3rd, seperate tab at the bottom of the register for each account (next to downloaded transactions tab and reminders tab.)
* The "online balance" at the bottom of each register for each account correctly excludes the pending transactions.
* The balances for these accounts shown on the "Account Bar" are incorrectly including the pending transactions even though they have not been entered in the register and are not included in the "online balance."

How do I get the balances in the account bar to reflect the balances shown in the register which excludes pending transactions?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Quicken Deluxe for Windows
Version R44.20
Build 27.1.44.20

Andrew King · Answer

> @PRD said:
 > Andrew King, I think you are being way too harsh.  I can believe a number of people prefer to see the pending transactions included in the balance, even though the final value may change.  It would be especially important to people near their credit limit.
 > 
 > As others have mentioned, the issue is the lack of an option to decide how to handle pending transactions,

Perhaps I was being harsh......thank you for your comment.  Obviously enough people saw value in this feature for Quicken to add this, even thuogh I personally did not.  The issue is the implementation and I should calm down.

PRD · Answer

Andrew King, I think you are being way too harsh.  I can believe a number of people prefer to see the pending transactions included in the balance, even though the final value may change.  It would be especially important to people near their credit limit.

As others have mentioned, the issue is the lack of an option to decide how to handle pending transactions,

Andrew King · Answer

Whoever thought it was a good idea to start updating the Account Bar balances with pending transactions that don't even exist in the register yet should be fired.  I'm not sure why Quicken feels anybody would want a pending transaction feature either btw.......do they not realize how times a pending transaction does not even equal the final the settled amount?  Any transaction involding gratuity or any deposit requirement (like a hotel) are just simple examples.

Complete lunacy.